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I Marine Expeditionary Force

Archive: December, 2004

Firefight last longest 15 seconds of Marines' lives

The Marines wait with eager eyes steady on the first door on the left as they reach the second floor of an average Iraqi home. With rounds chambered into their M-16 rifles, 9mm pistols and shotguns, the Marines realize that this may be a door to a room like the many thousand before it: empty with sand and dust everywhere and not an enemy to be

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