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Mathematically, yes.  But in reality, maybe not. 

"We didn't train to re-fight the battle of Fallujah, we trained for the battle of Stalingrad....I wish we had spent three months with some U.S. Marshals instead."

That was the lament of an infantry commander I spoke with in Iraq.  His Marines were trained and eager for force on force operations, a classic fire-fight, but in Iraq, the enemy was not willing return the favor.  Instead, they spent 4 months in fruitless battalion sized operations and 3 effective months as the Sheriff of small villages.

The three months as Sheriff were effective in terms of enemy killed, detained and weapons captured.

Bill Ardolino is out on patrol with 2nd Assault Amphibious Bn. based out of Camp Fallujah as they perform MSR security along MSR Mobile.

I rode in one of Gators Tracks during a mission that was only noteable for the weather and it seemed that Gator was always in the neighborhood when Vengeance was out on a mission including one along the same road Bill blogs about.

I spent some quality time along MSR Mobile in 2005 performing a variant of the typical MSR security patrol we called "bait and kill."  Vengeance Platoon performed the bait and kill to perfection--even if it is unnerving being the IED bait.