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When the Marine Air Ground Task Force command point travelled to outside the city of al-Ba'aj, they inherited a few new neighbors.
12.18.08, Story by Cpl. Sean Mcginty
When the Marines of Marine Wing Support Squadron 273 arrived here in the end of October, Camp Sinjar was little more than broken concrete strips covered with mounds of dirt surrounded by sand.
12.16.08, Story by Cpl. Sean Mcginty
Watch out al-Qaida, the Marines have just set up shop.
12.16.08, Story by Sgt. Geoffrey Ingersoll
"We can bring a whole lot of fight. Military police are trained to do a whole span of things. Our vehicle and weapons configurations are really like [an infantry] weapons platoon," said 1st Lt. Jared B. Justice, officer in charge, area guard, MP Detachment, Combat Logistics Company 19, 1st Marine Logistics Group.
12.10.08, Story by Sgt. Geoffrey Ingersoll
On ground that was little more than a strip of cement surrounded by desert, a veritable camp now stands, built and manned by Marines of Task Force Ninewa ready to hunt foreign fighters and terrorists near the Syrian border.
11.18.08, Story by Cpl. Dean Davis
Anbar province, once a hotbed of insurgent activity, has reached a calm and stability once never thought possible.
11.15.08, Story by Cpl. Sean Mcginty
The Multi-National Force - West command element and the last major coalition force units left Camp Fallujah, Iraq, for the final time on Nov. 14, marking an end to the two historic battles for Fallujah and the long fight to return the city to normalcy which started more than four years ago.
11.14.08, Story by Gunnery Sgt. Matthew Butler
It wasn't long after breakfast on Nov. 12, that Lance Cpl. Russell L. Pope was sitting in the cold in the back of a Light Armored Vehicle driving through a small town in western Nineveh province.
11.14.08, Story by Sgt. Geoffrey Ingersoll
Knowing the terrain is crucial to warfare, and these Marines know the terrain.
11.14.08, Story by Sgt. Geoffrey Ingersoll
The Marines here celebrated the first day of the Corps' 234th year by taking one more weapon out of insurgent hands.
11.14.08, Story by Sgt. Geoffrey Ingersoll
As Task Force Ninewa, a ground-combat element built around 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, moved into the area west of Mosul, Company C, 1st LAR Bn led the way to restrict criminal activity in a place uninhabited by a Marine force of its size for nearly two decades.
11.13.08, Story by Cpl. Dean Davis
What does it take to keep a mechanized infantry battalion rolling? At more than 12 tons each, light armored vehicle sounds like a contradictory name, but there's nothing light about the mission these Marines have.
11.11.08, Story by Cpl. Dean Davis
Even on the forward operating base of Camp Sinjar, these Navy medical personnel continue to train how they fight.
11.10.08, Story by Cpl. Sean Mcginty
With one awkward step over the berm, the Marines of the Military Police detachment here began their first security and reconnaissance patrol in Iraq's northern Nineweh province, Nov. 9.
11.09.08, Story by Sgt. Geoffrey Ingersoll
Their mission is to train, mentor and advise Iraqi security forces on Anbar's border, but the Marines of Border Transition Team 4222 don't forget to provide help to western Anbar's civilian population.
10.31.08, Story by Sgt. Geoffrey Ingersoll
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