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In June 2004, 1/3 (also known at the time as Battalion Landing Team 1/3, and including Battery C 1st Battalion 12th Marines - also from Marine Corps Base Hawaii) set off to tour what was known as a standard deployment around the South Pacific region with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU). In early September 2004, the unit arrived in ...
3rd Battalion 1st Marines: November 13, 2004 [16] Fallujah (Second Battle) Directly led squad of Marines in heavy close-quarters urban combat, despite sustaining multiple wounds. Jarrett Kraft: Sergeant: Navy Cross: 3rd Battalion 5th Marines: December 23, 2004 [17] Fallujah (Second Battle) Personally led three assaults against enemy forces ...
During the First Battle of Fallujah, U.S. Marines from the 1st Marine Regiment take cover as an M1A1 Abrams from the 1st Tank Battalion fires at a building where insurgent snipers are positioned. The largest combat mission since the declaration of the end of "major hostilities", [ 52 ] the First Battle of Fallujah marked a turning point in ...
Designated the division main effort, RCT-1 (3rd Battalion, 1st Marines) crossed the line of departure on 7 November 2004. After twelve days of intense urban combat, 1st Marine Division had defeated the insurgents and successfully fought its way to the southern end of the city capturing the western half of Fallujah.
Kasal being awarded the Navy Cross and promoted to sergeant major in May 2006. Bradley Allan Kasal (born May 1, 1966) is a United States Marine who received the Navy Cross for heroic actions performed as the first sergeant of Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines during a firefight in Operation Phantom Fury in Fallujah, Iraq on November 13, 2004.
3rd Battalion, 3rd Marines, abbreviated as (3/3), was an infantry battalion of the United States Marine Corps, based out of Kaneohe, Hawaii. Known as either "Trinity" or "America's Battalion", the unit normally fell under the command of the 3rd Marine Regiment of the 3rd Marine Division . [ 1 ]
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.
Instead of deploying new units, the Marine Corps chose to extend the deployments of several units already in Anbar: 1st Battalion 6th Marines, 3rd Battalion 4th Marines, and the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU). [291] The 15th MEU would later be replaced by the 13th MEU as the last surge unit. [292] [293] AQI had its own offensives planned ...