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Archive: May, 2006

Corps’ top leader discusses war fighting concept, Core Values with Iraq-deployed Marines, sailors

The Corps’ top officer recently stated that the Marine Corps is headed in the right direction in the future of war fighting, and will stand up its first, fully operational distributed operations-capable battalion by next year. Gen. Michael W. Hagee, commandant of the Marine Corps, said the Corps recently completed a year-long test of the new

Deployed Marine hears baby’s first cry

Lance Cpl. Charles Monroe Bates doesn’t have a wallet photo of his first child just yet. The tiny screen on his MP3 player will have to do for now. The Marine Corps Integrated Management System clerk with Headquarters and Support Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment heard his first child’s first breath at the battalion’s phone center at

Marines combine skills to fight in city

Rooting out insurgents in the rural farmlands west of Fallujah is quite a different task than the same thing in the densely packed city streets. It’s a change of pace two companies worth of Marines are learning in beefed up operations here. Marines from A Company, 1st Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 5, worked side by side

Country music star visits southern California-based Marine unit in Iraq

Marines and Sailors serving in Iraq’s western Al Anbar Province were treated to a musical performance by one of Coalition Forces’ greatest supporters – Toby Keith. The avid backer of America’s fighting forces paid a visit to the Marines of the Twenty-nine Palms, Calif.-based 1st battalion, 7th Marine Regiment at the Marine’s base of operations

New police force in Iraqi-Syrian border town ready for the streets

Despite two recent suicide bombings on a new police station here, one Iraqi police officer in this Iraq-Syria border town says his men are undeterred in their duties and are ready to work on their own. "Ahmed," a 45-year-old police captain, is one of several new police officers in this city of 50,000 who has endured two attacks on the city’s

Shared cigars bring Marines together in Fallujah

A thick billowy cloud of white smoke lingered in the air above the relaxed Marines. It was quitting time and Marines were enjoying a ritual of sorts Marines and sailors from 1st Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 5, take time at the end of their day to enjoy a good cigar at the chapel here. “It’s great,” said Sgt. Russel R.

Marines pause to honor Navy hospital corpsman killed in action

Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Lee Hamilton Deal was more than just a platoon corpsman to his Marines. He was a team member. Marines of 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion, Regimental Combat Team 5, paused to honor “Doc” Deal, a hospital corpsman assigned to the battalion’s B Company, 1st Platoon. He was memorialized at Camp Fallujah’s Chapel of Hope May

;'New England’s Own' raids target insurgents in the city

Marines operating here are helping to rebuild the city and get the local citizens back on their feet, but they do not hesitate to kick in a door once in a while to search for insurgent activity. Marines from B Company, 1st Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 5, recently conducted an intelligence-driven raid on a possible

2nd Recon Battalion memorializes three fallen Marines

Marines from 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion paused operations to memorialize three Marines who died as a result of wounds sustained in combat. The three – Sgt. Alessandro Carbonaro, Cpl. Cory L. Palmer and Cpl. William B. Fulks – were remembered by their fellow Marines at Camp Fallujah’s Chapel of Hope May 27. They were wounded in an attack May 1.

Darkhorse Marines repel attack, maintain vigilance

Insurgents are finding out Marines are a “Force In Readiness,” whether the insurgents are adequately prepared or not. Darkhorse Marines of 2nd Platoon, L Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment battled insurgents in a 20-minute firefight at their patrol post in the town of Halabisah, May 24. The first sign of the attack came only moments before

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