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2nd Battalion, 4th Marines (2/4) is an infantry battalion of the United States Marine Corps. The battalion, nicknamed the Magnificent Bastards from the Vietnam War, is based out of Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton , California and is a part of the 4th Marine Regiment and 1st Marine Division .
The Battle of Ramadi was fought in the spring of 2004, during the same time as the First Battle of Fallujah, for control of the capital of the Al Anbar Governorate in western Iraq. [5] A coalition military force consisting of the 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines were stationed to defend the city from an insurgent assault. [3]
When 2/4 and 3/11 left in September and October, they handed their sector of Ramadi over to the 2nd Battalion 5th Marines (2/5)2nd Battalion 11th marines were also deployed during this time to Ar Ramadi, who completed their tour in April 2005, then 1st Battalion 5th Marines (1/5) took over. The spring of 2004 was particularly bloody in Ramadi.
Nearly all members of a squad from 2nd Battalion 4th Marines were killed when they drove into an ambush in unarmored Humvees, the first time the Marines had lost a firefight in Iraq. [ 114 ] [ 115 ] On 17 April, insurgents attacked a Marine patrol in the border city of Husaybah , leading to a series of engagements that lasted the whole day and ...
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.
This force included members of Battalion Landing Team 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment who were sent by General Abizaid to help in the fighting in Ramadi. [ 41 ] [ 42 ] In January 2007, as part of the U.S. troop surge in Iraq , 4,000 Marines in Al Anbar had their tour extended by 45 days.
[9] 1st Blt 4th Marines encircled the complex after fighting through the Old City and began a siege. The Mahdi Army utilized large hotels that overlook the cemetery as overwatch machine gun positions. U.S. Marines from Alpha and Bravo Co. 1/4 assaulted several of these hotels. After heavy hand to hand and room to room fighting the hotels were ...
A U.S. Army officer from the 4th Infantry Division with an Iraqi policeman in January 2009. Below is an estimated list of the major units deployed within the Multi-National Force – Iraq and other United States military units that were operating in Iraq under the U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) in 2009, during the Iraq War.