The BBC is reporting the Marines are expecting the attack on Fallujah to be the Marines’ * biggest engagement since 1968* when they captured the Vietnamese city of Hue. In that battle the US lost 142 men and killed thousands of Vietnamese. The New York Times is reporting the US and Iraq militaries will send as many as * 25,000 troops=* into Fallujah. Meanwhile Reuters is reporting many of the Marines have * never fought in major combat* situations before. One sergeant reported that 95 percent of the troops in his company had never fought in combat before.