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Marines from C Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Marines, enter a palace in Baghdad. 1/7 Marines in 2010. In January 2003, 1/7 was deployed on Operation Iraqi Freedom. It crossed the Kuwaiti border into Iraq on 18 March; its first mission was to seize the strategically prominent oil pumping and control station in Az Zubayr. This station was so ...
1st Battalion, 7th Marines (1/7) 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines (2/7) 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines (3/7) 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines (3/4) – (assigned to the 7th Marine Regiment for the purpose of facilitating 4th Marines as a "host" regimental headquarters for battalions on unit deployment program assignments to 3rd Marine Division on Okinawa.)
1st Battalion 8th Marines: November 25, 2004 [10] Fallujah (Second Battle) Engaged insurgents while simultaneously evacuating three wounded Marines under fire. [10] Benjamin Gonzalez: Lance Corporal: Navy Cross: 2nd Battalion 1st Marines: June 18, 2004 [11] Fallujah: Jumped on a fellow Marine to protect him from a grenade. [11] Jordan Haerter ...
2nd BN, 7th Marine Regiment 3rd BN, 7th Marine Regiment 7th Marine Regiment (TF Ripper) 1st BN, 5th Marine Regiment 1st BN, 7th Marine Regiment 3rd Tank Battalion 11th Marine Regiment (TF King) 1st BN, 11th Marine Regiment (155T) 3rd BN, 11th Marine Regiment (155T) 5th BN, 11th Marine Regiment (155T/155SP/203SP) 1st BN, 12th Marine Regiment ...
Invasion routes and major battles fought by the coalition and afterwards. This is the order of battle for the invasion of Iraq during the Iraq War between coalition forces [1] and the Iraqi Armed Forces; Fedayeen Saddam irregulars; and others between March 19 and May 1, 2003.
1st Battalion, 7th Marines; 2nd Battalion, 23rd Marines; Regimental Combat Team 8 (RCT 8) (Colonel John K. Love) — Al Asad Air Base. 3rd Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment; 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion (3rd LARB) 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion (2nd CEB) II MEF Headquarters Group (Forward) (Colonel Scott D. Aiken)
In April 2012, Martz was 26 and a Marine sergeant already on his third combat deployment, in the Kajaki District of southern Afghanistan. He’d lost a good friend in combat, 22-year-old Lance Cpl. William H. Crouse IV, of Woodruff, S.C. Martz’s unit, 1st Battalion 10th Marines, had taken other casualties.
The operation aimed at securing roads into and out of Fallujah and was led by the 7th Marine Regiment. The Marines swept west to east from Al Asad and seized a large number of bombs. Battle of Husaybah: 17 April 2004: 17 April 2004: Husaybah: Battle: Five Marines were killed along with 150 insurgents in the fierce battle that lasted 14 hours.