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Archive: August, 2006

'America's Battalion' dedicates make-shift gym to fallen warrior in Iraq

Marines who knew Staff Sgt. Jason C. Ramseyer will tell you that he loved three things – his family, his Marines and going to the gym. Ramseyer, 28, died April 21, 2006, in the western Al Anbar Province of Iraq when a roadside bomb exploded near him. To honor the fallen warrior, Marines from Ramseyer’s unit, the Hawaii-based 3rd Battalion, 3rd

Iraqi Army recruits 293 Iraqis in Habbaniyah, Fallujah

Soldiers from the 1st Iraqi Army Division enlisted 293 Iraqi males from greater Fallujah and Habbaniyah as part of an al Anbar province-wide recruiting drive Tuesday and Wednesday. “They looked enthusiastic about doing this, and that’s a good sign,” said Maj. William Gerst, a Regimental Combat Team 5 assistant operations officer who assisted the

U.S. Army battalion, Marines honor fallen soldier, medic killed in Iraq

U.S. Army Sgt. David J. Almazan was a loving husband, a superb leader, a true soldier, and a caring person. That’s the person fellow U.S. soldiers remembered during a memorial service for the 26-year-old Army medic Aug. 31. Almazan was killed in action Aug. 27 while on a combat patrol in this city of 30,000 in Iraq’s Al Anbar province. His

2nd Recon Battalion Marines stir the hornet’s nest in Operation Rubicon

Marines from 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion kicked over the hornet’s nest during Operation Rubicon in Mushin, west of Habbaniyah. What they found underneath was a lot deadlier than a stinger. They battled insurgents in running gunfights lasting nearly an entire day and scored hundreds of weapons finds in a several-day operation. Recon Marines,

‘Betio Bastards’ take time out for Iraq’s next generation

Marines here will say that if there is no other reason why they’re in Iraq – it’s for the kids. Marines assigned to K Company, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment met with neighborhood kids in this small city west of Habbaniyah to show them there is a bright future for Iraq. They made their stop during Operation Rubicon, a company-sized combat

Combat train counterattacks, kills insurgents

Marines from 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment’s Combat Train One showed insurgents the Marines aren’t sitting ducks. Marines on the logistics train were attacked while waiting for an explosive ordnance disposal team to clear improvised explosive devices Aug. 29. Marines were in the middle of their mission to supply companies in the field. “We had

RCT-5 doctors examine deaf Fallujah girl

Regimental Combat Team 5’s medical team heard the call for a girl who could not. At the request of the Fallujah city council, members of the RCT-5 medical staff visited Fallujah Surgical this weekend and examined the hearing capacity of a 6-year-old Fallujan girl who was pronounced deaf and mute last year. The girl was evaluated by Navy doctors

Military doctors: Local girl who befriended deployed unit needs life saving surgery

After befriending Marines and sailors serving in this region of Iraq, a 12-year-old Iraqi girl who is in need of a kidney and liver transplant is now in a life-or-death struggle. Hadael Hamade, a young Iraqi girl from Karabilah, Iraq, a city of about 30,000 near the Iraq-Syria border, desperately needs life-saving surgery in order to live,

Marines pause combat patrol to show goodwill to Iraqis

Marines made their intentions clear to Iraqis during Operation Rubicon, a company-sized combat operation here. They’re here to help. It was a clear as the bottles of water they passed out to Iraqi citizens. Marines and a sailor assigned to K Company, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment handed out drinkable water to Iraqi women and children during

New batch of Iraqi medics graduate, ready for service with Iraqi military, police units

When Iraqi soldiers and policemen here are wounded in combat, they used to rely on U.S. service members to patch up their wounds. Not any more. Twenty Iraqi soldiers and police officers serving near the Iraqi-Syrian border graduated from a combat medical course Aug. 10, enabling them to provide their own emergency care. The five-week course, which

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