![]() Why he enlisted: I felt like God led me here. My platoon, all we’re worried about is making sure there are no threats coming into the base. Job on Task Force Southwest: I’m pulling guard duty, (looking out for) anything that seems like a threat, that’s trying to attack the base. Enlisted: 2016 Prior job: Assaultman, Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 2nd Marines Previous deployments: This is his first. So, tactical communications, larger broadband communications, as well as the garrison communications - fiber in their buildings and building up that infrastructure. It’s a dual mission of advising them on the best way to do C2 when they’re engaged and doing missions. We’re making sure they understand (how) to enable command and control in the most effective manner for their forces at the brigades and down to the kandak (battalion) level. ![]() Job on Task Force Southwest: Adviser to the 215 Corps G-6 (Communications/Signals). Commissioned: 2007 Prior job: Company commander, 8th Communications Battalion Previous deployments: 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Persian Gulf), Black Sea Rotational Force Pretty much everything is exactly the same except it’s a little more weathered, and there are no people there.Ĭapt. It’s all still there, but it’s a ghost town. In 2011 when I was here, I would compare it to being on a Marine Corps base in the States. The difference in Camp Leatherneck today: It’s completely different. We’re not knee-deep in mud and opium fields. Now we have a great chow hall, the gym, and we’re training. Last time, I was eating “tray rats” (unit-sized MREs), we were on combat patrols every day, taking contact, IEDs. How this deployment compares to his previous one: This is way better than when we were in Marjah. Job on Task Force Southwest: Instructor: Route clearance, mine and IED detection, cache searches, weapon tactics, squad and platoon-level movements, patrolling Enlisted: 2003 Prior job: Combat engineer Previous deployments: 2004-05, Phantom Fury (Second Battle of Fallujah, Iraq) 2006, Fallujah, Iraq 2008, Fallujah, Iraq 2010-11, Marjah, Afghanistan In a transfer of authority ceremony at the end of April, Stars and Stripes spoke with some of the Marines in Helmand. They will help the Afghan Army’s 215 Corps and the 505th national police zone hold off the Taliban and maybe even start to push them back. Marines with Task Force Southwest will pick up where the Army’s Task Force Forge left off. ![]() ![]() Since the last Devil Dog pulled out in the fall of 2014, the Taliban have reconquered about half the province, which the Marines liberated at great cost between 20. The returning Marines have nine months to make a mark. Instead of going on patrol and taking fire, they spend their days working alongside their Afghan counterparts, behind the wire. Instead of being holed up at cramped patrol bases, they are stationed at the well-appointed Camp Shorab, which sits on land once occupied by the U.K.’s Camp Bastion. For the veterans, the new mission stands in stark contrast to their previous Afghanistan tours. About half of the new Marines have previous experience serving in Afghanistan or on advising teams. This new team, like its predecessor, is not a combat unit its purpose is to advise and to provide much-needed instruction and support to the Afghan military. The 300-strong Task Force Southwest is taking over from an Army unit that has been there since the fall. Interviews in Eyewitness to War span a wide spectrum of participants, from commanders and senior non-commissioned officers at platoon, company, and battalion levels, to combat and combat service support personnel on the battlefield, and to one journalist who witnessed the battle firsthand.CAMP SHORAB, Afghanistan - A Marine unit was dispatched to Helmand last month for the first time since 2014. Using the firepower and mobility of the Army's heavy armor and mechanized units to full effect, the Marine Regimental Combat Teams were successful in destroying the enemy and securing Fallujah in ten days. Under the overall command of the 1st Marine Division, four Marine infantry and two US Army battalions, Task Forces 2-2 Infantry and 2-7 Cavalry, were committed to the streets of Fallujah while the Army's 2d Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division formed a cordon to hold and isolate the insurgents in the city. The second battle for Fallujah in November 2004 was a brutal and bloody fight so characteristic of urban terrain. This study is a derivative of the CSI Operational Leadership Experience (OLE) project, a program that collects and archives first-person experiences from the Global War on Terror. Matthews (Editor) Eyewitness to War: A US Army Oral History of Operation AL FAJR, is a unique publication. Army Command and General Staff College, Combat Studies Institute Staff (Contribution by) Matt M. Eyewitness to War: the US Army in Operation Al Fajr Volume I by Kendall D.
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