Deployed troops pause to remember fallen comrades on Memorial Day in Iraq
May 31, 2004 — Deployed Marines, sailors and soldiers gathered here to remember fallen comrades on Memorial Day, May 31, 2004. The outdoor observance included remarks from Brig. Gen. Richard S. Kramlich, the 1st Force Service Support Group's commanding general. The general said young people serving now are the "next great generation," drawing parallels to World MORE
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Covering Sixes: Mobile infantry force a cavalry to convoys under fire
May 31, 2004 — Keep the foot on the gas.That's the mission of the logisticians of the 1st Force Service Support Group who brave highways littered with roadside bombs and flanked by trigger-happy insurgents daily in order to haul supplies across western Iraq to Marines who need them.Even though every convoy packs loads of firepower -- from heavy machine guns to MORE
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1st FSSG convoys blaze trails in western Iraq
May 29, 2004 — Like wagon trains of old rolling along pitted highways and dusty trails, Marine supply convoys face peril and uncertainty on the long roads of western Iraq. Supporting units spread across an area about the size of Wyoming, Marines of Combat Service Support Battalion 7 have logged more than 140,000 miles on the road to deliver more than 6.5 million MORE
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1st FSSG combat engineers sweep for mines in western Iraq
May 27, 2004 — In response to mine blasts that have injured Marines and disabled vehicles along a highway near here, 1st Force Service Support Group combat engineers swept the area for mines May 16, 2004. At least five vehicles have been damaged by mines in western Iraq in the last two months. The most recent two were hit within a week of each other in the same MORE
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1st FSSG surgeon helps ailing Iraqi children take first steps toward healing hands in states
May 27, 2004 — A reserve Navy doctor here is working with a children's charity to help young Iraqis with serious health problems receive treatment in America that is not available in Iraq. Cmdr. Joel Hardin, a pediatric cardiologist in Chicago moonlighting as a surgeon with 3rd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, has seen three girls from villages in the Al Anbar MORE
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Marines capture, destroy large Iraqi insurgents' weapons stockpiles
May 20, 2004 — In the past week, Marines based here have unearthed some of the largest stockpiles of weapons found this year, which, left unfound, could have outfitted insurgents with the materials needed to construct improvised explosives and attack U.S. forces. Discovered in various locations east of the camp by Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion, 24th Marine MORE
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Marines, sailors pay visit to impoverished village to raise quality of life
May 19, 2004 — Marines with 3rd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment visited a local village May 15, 2004, in an effort to develop a positive relationship with the neighboring community and attempt to help its citizens obtain the tools they need to escape poverty. Reserve infantrymen and Navy medical personnel from the battalion, as well as other 1st Force Service MORE
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1st FSSG surgical units primed to aid Fallujah Brigade
May 9, 2004 — With the newly formed Fallujah Brigade operating under the helm of Marines in a renewed hope of stabilizing the city, the nearby surgical units of the 1st Force Service Support Group stand poised to aid their new allies. Each one located a stone's throw from Fallujah, the Bravo Surgical Company at Camp Fallujah and Surgical/Shock Trauma Platoon MORE
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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition: 1st FSSG chaplain's protector called to serve
May 9, 2004 — His first calling was to the Marines, the second was to the Lord. Today, one sailor serves both in Iraq.Stretched across a scarlet ribbon on the Navy Chaplain's Corps' seal are the Latin words "vocati ad servitium," meaning "called to serve." Petty Officer 2nd Class Wayne M. George, a 29-year-old religious program specialist, or "RP" for short, MORE
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1st FSSG puts equipment on fast track to Fallujah Brigade
May 2, 2004 — Supporting efforts to quickly employ Iraqis in helping coalition forces stabilize Fallujah, Marines of the 1st Force Service Support Group sped weapons and gear to the city to outfit a newly created Iraqi army battalion May 1, 2004. The 1st Battalion of the Fallujah Brigade is being established in hopes that it will be a concrete step toward a MORE
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