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At the height of the occupation the US had 170,000 personnel in uniform stationed in 505 bases throughout all provinces of Iraq. Another 135,000 private military contractors were also working in Iraq. [1] [2] Due to International military intervention against ISIL, personnel have returned to old bases and new bases created.
Emily Perez was the first black female officer to be killed in action in United States military history [1] and the first female graduate of West Point to die in Iraq. [7] She became the 64th female member of the U.S. military to be killed in combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the 40th West Point graduate killed since the September ...
Michael Yon (born 1964) [1] is an American writer and photographer. He served in the Special Forces in the early-1980s, and he became a writer in the mid-1990s. He focused on military writing after the invasion of Iraq. [2]
A dramatic rescue of a little girl trapped by ISIS gunfire in Mosul was captured Friday on video. Watch this ex-Green Beret run through ISIS gunfire to save a little girl Skip to main content
Lioness is a 2008 documentary film directed by Meg McLagan and Daria Sommers [1] [2] about the first members of Team Lioness.This feature-length documentary tells the story of a group of Army servicewomen who went to Iraq as clerks, mechanics and engineers but ended up fighting alongside the Marines in some of the bloodiest battles of the Iraq war.
On November 9, 2004, an Army Major and an Air Force Master Sergeant died as a result of an RPG attack and mortar attack on Forward Operating Base Courage in Mosul. On November 10, 2004, hundreds of insurgents flooded the streets of the city. They started attacking Iraqi security forces and by the next day had taken the initiative.
Iraqi children walk home from school as Iraqi police and U.S. Army Soldiers from Delta Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, of Fort Bliss, Texas, conduct a patrol in their neighborhood in Mosul, Iraq, March 19. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Vanessa Valentine) Camera manufacturer
On 6 April, Iraqi security forces from the army's 15th brigade, Peshmerga, and tribal fighters resumed military operations, after receiving information about the presence of a large number of booby-trapped vehicles and suicide bombers belonging to ISIL in al-Nasr village south of Mosul, killing 70 ISIL militants and destroying seven car bombs.