Combat Logisitics Battalion 3 supplies success during Operation Gateway III [Image 2 of 5]

FARAH PROVINCE, AFGHANISTAN

12.29.2008

Photo by Lance Cpl. Ronald Stauffer 

U.S. Marine Corps Forces Central Command

An AH-1W Super Cobra attack helicopter, assigned to Marine Light/Attack Helicopter Squadron 269, providing close-in fire support, lifts off from Forward Operating Base Delaram during Operation Gateway III, Dec. 29, 2008. Operation Gateway III was a strategically planned operation to place combat outposts along southern Afghanistan's Route 515, providing security and safer travel for Afghan residents, as well as International Security Assistance Forces and Afghan national security forces. CLB-3 is the logistics combat element of Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force ? Afghanistan.

• Date Taken: 12.29.2008
• Date Posted: 01.25.2009 05:43
• Photo ID: 146876
• VIRIN: 081229-M-9999S-002
• Resolution: 3000x1811
• Size: 699.94 KB
• Location: FARAH PROVINCE, AF