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At 1:20 am AST on 26 January 2005 a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter (164536), code named Sampson 22 [5] from Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 361 was ferrying a platoon of U.S. Marines from the 3rd Marine Division in Al-Anbar province, Iraq near the town of Ar-Rutbah, about seventy miles from the Jordanian border when it encountered a sandstorm.
The battalion was ordered to deploy in August 2004 for a seven-month period. 3rd LAR conducted a relief in place with 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion at Korean Village, 35 miles (56 km) west of the city of Ar Rutbah, and fell under Regimental Combat Team 7.
Hurricane Point (Ar Ramadi) Al Anbar: Camp: Husaybah: Al-Qa'im: Al Anbar: 2009: Renamed Camp Gannon: Camp: Independence Camp Headhunter FOB Headhunter: Ali Saleh: Baghdad: Al Muthana Air Base 2 Platoons of HHC 4–64 AR, 4th BDE, 3rd IN Div Camp: India: Camp: Iron Horse (Sadr City) Camp: Ironhorse FOB Danger (Tikrit) Salah ad Din: Camp ...
Ar-Rutbah (Arabic: الرطبة ar-Ruṭba, also Romanized Rutba, Rutbah) is an Iraqi town in western Al Anbar province, completely inhabited with Sunni Arabs. The population is approximately 28,400. It occupies a strategic location on the Amman–Baghdad road, and the Kirkuk–Haifa oil pipeline. Considered a "wet spot", it receives 114.3 mm ...
From February to September 2004, Delta Co. deployed to Fallujah, Iraq in support of RCT-1. From September 2004 to March 2005, Alpha Co. deployed to Fallujah, Iraq and relieved D. Company. From February to September 2005, 2nd LAR Battalion(-) deployed to Ar Rutbah, Iraq with H&S Co., Bravo Co., and Charlie Co..
On a routine combat patrol, a platoon from 1st Battalion, 6th Marines, enters an adobe compound in a farm village. Walking point, at the head of the column, is Lance Cpl. Zachary Smith, from Hornell, N.Y. He is 19. An IED suddenly erupts beneath him, tearing off both his legs and scything down other Marines with shrapnel wounds. Cpl.
1st Battalion, 2nd Marines (1/2) (pronounced "one-two") is an infantry battalion in the United States Marine Corps based out of Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, consisting of approximately 900 Marines and sailors.
The recruits came at a trot down the Boulevard de France at the storied Marine Corps boot camp at Parris Island, S.C., shouting cadence from their precise parade ranks. Parents gathered on the sidewalks pressed forward, brandishing cameras and flags, yelling the names of the sons and daughters they hadn’t seen in three months.