3/12 Marines highlight suspicious activity

Photo By Cpl. Daniel Blatter | Marines with India Battery, 3rd Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 2, in Kajaki, light up the dark sky, Oct. 1, after receiving word of suspicious activity near the Kajaki Dam. The mortarmen at Forward Operating Base Zeebrugge first fired illumination rounds to spot and confirm the Taliban activity and then followed it up with high explosive rounds to destroy the threat.  

KAJAKI, AFGHANISTAN

10.01.2010

Story by Cpl. Daniel Blatter 

1st Marine Division

KAJAKI, Afghanistan – Marines with India Battery, 3rd Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 2, in Kajaki, light up the dark sky, Oct. 1, after receiving word of suspicious activity near the Kajaki Dam.

The mortarmen at Forward Operating Base Zeebrugge first fired illumination rounds to spot and confirm the Taliban activity and then followed it up with high explosive rounds to destroy the threat.

Nearly every night, mortarmen at FOB Zeebrugge gear up at a moment’s notice and race toward the mortar pit to fire everything from illumination rounds to high-explosive rounds.

(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Daniel A. Blatter)

• Date Taken: 10.01.2010
• Date Posted: 10.16.2010 02:30
• Story ID: 58227
• Location: KAJAKI, AF