Marines and sailors with Alpha Surgical, Combat Logistics Battalion 7, 1st Marine Logistics Group, work with the Army?s 82nd Medical Company to provide expedient medical care and transportation for an injured Marine March 22, 2006 at Al Asad Air Base. The staff at Alpha Surgical handles the duties of both a shock trauma platoon and a ?Forward Resuscitative Surgical Suite?, manning emergency and operating rooms here. Since they took command a month ago, the unit has treated close to 200 patients, including Iraqi Security Forces soldiers and civilians, as well as several insurgents. - Marines and sailors with Alpha Surgical, Combat Logistics Battalion 7, 1st Marine Logistics Group, work with the Army?s 82nd Medical Company to provide expedient medical care and transportation for an injured Marine March 22, 2006 at Al Asad Air Base. The staff at Alpha Surgical handles the duties of both a shock trauma platoon and a ?Forward Resuscitative Surgical Suite?, manning emergency and operating rooms here. Since they took command a month ago, the unit has treated close to 200 patients, including Iraqi Security Forces soldiers and civilians, as well as several insurgents.

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Iraqi soldiers practice navigating during a recent exercise at Al Asad Air Base, March 20, 2006. More than 120 soldiers from the Iraqi 8th Motor Transport Regiment are getting region-specific and refresher training from Marines here to prepare them for convoy operations in the dangerous Al Anbar Province. Motor transportation specialists with the Marines' Combat Logistics Battalion - 7 are training their Iraqi counterparts how to move troops and supplies throughout Iraq while facing improvised explosive devices, enemy ambushes and rough roads. - Iraqi soldiers practice navigating during a recent exercise at Al Asad Air Base, March 20, 2006. More than 120 soldiers from the Iraqi 8th Motor Transport Regiment are getting region-specific and refresher training from Marines here to prepare them for convoy operations in the dangerous Al Anbar Province. Motor transportation specialists with the Marines' Combat Logistics Battalion - 7 are training their Iraqi counterparts how to move troops and supplies throughout Iraq while facing improvised explosive devices, enemy ambushes and rough roads.

Lt. Cmdr. Ray Hunt and his fellow chaplains are ready to support the service members of the 1st Marine Logistics Group at Camp Taqaddum, Iraq, assisting them in whatever spiritual needs that may arise. ::n::::n::â??We like to think that we have met needs and now we are going after wants (spiritually),â? Hunt, a 40-year-old native of Clinton, Miss.::n::::n::The 4,200 service members of 1st MLG are part of the 25,000 Marines, airmen, solders and sailors of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Forceâ??s forward deployed element. The 1st MLGâ??s mission is to provide sustained logistics support to I MEF and Iraqi security forces operating in the Al Anbar province of Iraq. First MLG will also support the development of the Iraqi Security Forcesâ?? logistic capabilities in order to enable independent ISF led counter insurgency operations. - Lt. Cmdr. Ray Hunt and his fellow chaplains are ready to support the service members of the 1st Marine Logistics Group at Camp Taqaddum, Iraq, assisting them in whatever spiritual needs that may arise. ::n::::n::â??We like to think that we have met needs and now we are going after wants (spiritually),â? Hunt, a 40-year-old native of Clinton, Miss.::n::::n::The 4,200 service members of 1st MLG are part of the 25,000 Marines, airmen, solders and sailors of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Forceâ??s forward deployed element. The 1st MLGâ??s mission is to provide sustained logistics support to I MEF and Iraqi security forces operating in the Al Anbar province of Iraq. First MLG will also support the development of the Iraqi Security Forcesâ?? logistic capabilities in order to enable independent ISF led counter insurgency operations.