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Archive: 2008

Building bonds for the future

It’s an everyday occurrence here. Marines with Company L, 3rd Battalion, 23rd Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 2, patrol the streets not only to find weapon caches, but to interact with the local community and find out what the concerns of the people are. “What we are doing here is going around the neighborhood building relations and

1/1 FST leaders, mortarmen train for success

The blast reverberates across the desert. Marines turn away from a blast as a round from an M-252 81mm Mortar system escapes its iron chute and flies toward its target. Marines with 81 mm Mortar Platoon, Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 6, conducted indirect fire shoots during a fire support coordination

Iraqi, U.S. kids meet through letters

Just four years ago, Capt. Brian Von Kraus, now commander of Headquarters and Support Company, 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 6, was a platoon commander, fighting a kinetic war against insurgent forces in Anbar, Iraq. Serving in 2004 at the forefront of clandestine military operations, Von Kraus witnessed the worst of

RCT-1 takes the reins from RCT-6

Regimental Combat Team 6 officially transferred their authority of the area of operations to Regimental Combat Team 1 during a ceremony aboard Camp Fallujah, January 27. “It has been an honor and a privilege to serve with the Marines of Regimental Combat Team 6 for the last 13 months,” said Col. Richard L. Simcock II, commanding officer, Regimental

CAT 5 assists in reconstruction of Rawah

Evidence of past firefights is strewn along the bullet-riddled walls of Rawah. Marines patrolling through the streets are not a strange sight to the inhabitants. Children would greet them with “Salam,” and people in cars would pull over and politely wave. However, instead of always patrolling for insurgents, Marines now patrol to observe

Soul back in Fallujah, locals enjoy favorite pass-time

Children running around laughing and playing, adults cheerful and conversing amongst each other. It is a sign of the times. The start of a new beginning for the war fatigued city of Fallujah. Hundreds of residents throughout the city, including Iraqi Police and Iraqi Security Force officials, gathered Jan. 17 to observe the Elwahda and Elasifa

IA and IP conduct humanitarian mission

Protection and comfort is what the Marine Corps is trying to bring to the Iraqi people. To accomplish this, Coalition Forces are giving more responsibilities to the Iraqi Army and Iraqi Police. On Jan. 16, Marines from 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, with the IA and IP, took part in the first of three planned humanitarian

One dare was all it took

Many people join the Marine Corps for a challenge, a chance for travel or adventure, but for one Marine, joining-up was as easy as his friends saying he couldn’t do it. Cpl. Ahmed O. Adeyemi, who was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., spent his youth and young adult days growing up in Nigeria and England because of his dad’s job and his parents wanting him

Value of integrity

It was an average night in the administration office at Camp Al Qa’im, Iraq. A lone Marine tidying up the office was about to stumble across an unexpected fortune. Lance Cpl. Aaron Kelley, an administrative clerk with Task Force 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 2, moved a desk to clean behind it, not expecting his

Iraqi women take the stand

A free Iraq affords the Iraqi people a newfound freedom of speech, and coalition forces are seeing to it that every facet of society can be heard. Cultural barriers have prevented male service members from interacting with part of the Iraqi populace that traditionally goes unheard. Recently, hundreds of Iraqi women in Al Qa’im, Iraq, came

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