Washington Post – U.S. Marines and Iraqi soldiers have launched an offensive against insurgents in Iraq’s western Anbar province, their sixth since the beginning of May, raiding suspected guerrilla strongholds outside Fallujah.
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Category Archives: USMarines
US Marines – Saving the Pentagon's Killer Chopper-Plane
Wired – 22 years. $16 billion. 30 deaths. The V-22 Osprey has been an R&D nightmare. But now the dream of a tilt-rotor troop transport could finally come true.
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US Marines – An Interview With the 33rd Commandant of the Marine Corps
Leatherneck – As the war on terror continues, the Commandant’s proud message is that the Marines are doing an “unbelievable job.”
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US Marines – A Vehicle That Does It All
Sea Power – As the Iraq War exposes inadequacies, Marine Corps officials ponder the serviceís future tactical wheeled vehicle needs
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US Marines – I'm Not Going to Come Home': One Marine's Third Iraq Tour
Washington Post – A look at the story of one Marine who was killed while on his third tour in Iraq.
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US Marines – Marines to Help Iraqi Troops Police Iraq
Associated Press – An Iraqi army battalion backed by U.S. Marines will be stationed in Hit, making it the first deployment to regularly police a city in the volatile western Anbar province
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US Marines – Frustrated marines chase army of ghosts
Daily Telegraph – With US Marine patrols on the Iraqi-Syrian border as they play cat and mouse with insurgents.
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US Marines – Along the Syria-Iraq Border, Victory Is Fleeting in an Effort to Rout Out Foreign Fighters
New York Times – Another look at the paucity of Marines patroling Iraq’s border with Syria.
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US Marines – Out in the Open
Sea Power – Specialists in clandestine warfare, Marine reconnaissance units take a lead role in Iraq and adapt to missions long done by Army Special Forces.
US Marines – After Striking Rebel Route, Marines and Iraqis Pull Back
Washington Post – U.S. Marines and Iraqi soldiers began pulling out of a volatile area along the Syrian border Tuesday after what commanders called a successful operation aimed at driving insurgents out of the town of Karabilah and disrupting their network for bringing foreign fighters into Iraq.
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US Marines – Sacked marine commander fights to clear his name as 'body bag syndrome' haunts US
Daily Telegraph – The leader of the American unit that has suffered the highest number of war casualties in Iraq is facing a fresh battle – to clear his name after being relieved of his command and told his promotion was being blocked.
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US Marines – U.S. Launches Airstrikes in Western Iraq
US Marines – The Marines are in action again in Western Iraq.
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US Marines – Marine Corps Combat Rifle Marksmanship
Marine Corps Gazette – A private sector perspective on Marine marksmanship training in the 21st century.
US Marines – Iraq's Ho Chi Minh Trail
New York Times – An overview of what the Marines are up against in western Iraq: One of the most important – and, so far, undecided – campaigns of the Iraqi conflict is the American drive to close off insurgent infiltration routes.
Here is an excellent graphic that accompanies the article: New York Times – A Lifeline of the Insurgency.
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US Marines – Out of war but not at peace: the battle scars of Cpl. Jack Self
Associated Press – An Associated Press reporter who was embedded with Marines during the invasion of Baghdad reconnected with the same unit for this report.
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US Marines – Preparing for Iraq
Marine Corps Gazette – A closer look at training all Marines should receive before deploying to Iraq.
US Marines – Heavy Lift Replacement
Leatherneck – The Corps’ heavy lift helicopter workhorse, the CH-53E Super Stallion, is getting long in the tooth, and plans are to move it to pasture.
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US Marines – Looking for Battle, Marines Find That Foes Have Fled
Washington Post – Another look at last weeks battles along Iraq’s border with Syria.
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US Marines – U.S. Marines unit begin landing at Kuwaiti naval base for possible deployment in Iraq
Associated Press – The 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, aboard the USS Kearsarge Expeditionary Strike Group, goes ashore in Kuwait.
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US Marines – U.S. Ends Iraqi Border Offensive
Washington Post – U.S. Marines rumbled back across the Euphrates River on a floating bridge Saturday, ending a week-long offensive against foreign fighters that had taken U.S. forces within two miles of the Syrian border. Marines said the sweep north of the Euphrates, called “Operation Matador,” was a success. Involving more than 1,000 Marines, it was the largest sustained U.S. offensive since the assault on Fallujah six months ago.
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US Marines – Demise of a Hard-Fighting Squad
Washington Post – The further, tragic adventures of the Marine squad profiled yesterday.
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US Marines – Activity-Based Costing and Activity-Based Management
Marine Corps Gazette – Activity-Based Costing and Activity-Based Management is designed to give greater visibility to actual costs, thereby enabling senior leaders to make better decisions on how Marine Corps funding should be spent.
US Marines – They Came Here to Die
Washington Post – Screaming “Allahu Akbar” to the end, the foreign fighters lay on their backs in a narrow crawl space under a house and blasted their machine guns up through the concrete floor with bullets designed to penetrate tanks. They fired at U.S. Marines, driving back wave after wave as the Americans tried to retrieve a fallen comrade. Through Sunday night and into Monday morning, the foreign fighters battled on, their screaming voices gradually fading to just one. In the end, it took five Marine assaults, grenades, a tank firing bunker-busting artillery rounds, 500-pound bombs unleashed by an F/A-18 attack plane and a point-blank attack by a rocket launcher to quell them. The Marines got their fallen man, suffering one more dead and at least five wounded in the process. And according to survivors of the battle, the foreign fighters near the Syrian border proved to be everything their reputation had suggested: fierce, determined and lethal to the last.
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US Marines – Article Prompts Marines to Recall Vests
Associated Press – The Marine Corps is recalling 5,277 combat vests issued to troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and Djibouti after a newspaper article raised concerns that they failed a test to determine whether they could stop a bullet.
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US Marines – Three Point Sling
Marine Corps Gazette – As the 7th Marines regimental gunner, the author provides tactical advice for young Marines going into combat.
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