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First Sgt. Russel A. Strack, battery first sergeant, Battery T, 5th Battalion, 10th Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 6, gives an area brief to Sgt. Maj. of the Marine Corps Carlton W. Kent aboard Camp Fallujah, Iraq, September 23. After Kent's visit with artillery and infantry Marines throughout the RCT-6 area of responsibility, he held a town hall-style meeting with Marines and sailors to address changes coming down the pipeline and answer Marines' questions. Heavy on the top enlisted Marine's agenda was the issue of retention of first-term Marines, which he said is essential to the commandant's guidance to grow the Marine Corps by 27,000 Marines. - First Sgt. Russel A. Strack, battery first sergeant, Battery T, 5th Battalion, 10th Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 6, gives an area brief to Sgt. Maj. of the Marine Corps Carlton W. Kent aboard Camp Fallujah, Iraq, September 23. After Kent's visit with artillery and infantry Marines throughout the RCT-6 area of responsibility, he held a town hall-style meeting with Marines and sailors to address changes coming down the pipeline and answer Marines' questions. Heavy on the top enlisted Marine's agenda was the issue of retention of first-term Marines, which he said is essential to the commandant's guidance to grow the Marine Corps by 27,000 Marines.

HADITHA DAM, Iraq, (Sept. 16, 2007) – A light armored vehicle with Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, Regimental Combat Team 2, provides over watch for boats with Detachment 3, Riverine Squadron 1, Riverine Group 1, Navy Expeditionary Combat Command. The sailors searched several civilian fishing boats and conducted sweeps of the Euphrates River in support of the regiment and 1st LAR. The squadron is the first Navy riverine unit to be forward deployed by the Navy since the Vietnam War. Official Marine Corps Photo By Cpl. Ryan C. Heiser. - HADITHA DAM, Iraq, (Sept. 16, 2007) – A light armored vehicle with Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, Regimental Combat Team 2, provides over watch for boats with Detachment 3, Riverine Squadron 1, Riverine Group 1, Navy Expeditionary Combat Command. The sailors searched several civilian fishing boats and conducted sweeps of the Euphrates River in support of the regiment and 1st LAR. The squadron is the first Navy riverine unit to be forward deployed by the Navy since the Vietnam War. Official Marine Corps Photo By Cpl. Ryan C. Heiser.

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Marines from 6th Platoon, 1st Fleet Anti-terrorism Security Team Company, Camp Allen, Va., practice room-clearing procedures at the Military Operations in Urban Terrain facility here Sept. 13. The Marines went through a seven-day unit training exercise that focused on learning and implementing urban combat tactics and techniques. - Marines from 6th Platoon, 1st Fleet Anti-terrorism Security Team Company, Camp Allen, Va., practice room-clearing procedures at the Military Operations in Urban Terrain facility here Sept. 13. The Marines went through a seven-day unit training exercise that focused on learning and implementing urban combat tactics and techniques.

Dylan R. Code (right), an instructor and program operator with the California Superbike School, corrects Howard Protrovsky, a civilian worker with the Marine Corps Combat Service Support School, on proper techniques of motorcycle steering here Sept. 8. The two-day Advanced Motorcycle Operator School course focused on different skills related to steering, braking, traction and increasing - Dylan R. Code (right), an instructor and program operator with the California Superbike School, corrects Howard Protrovsky, a civilian worker with the Marine Corps Combat Service Support School, on proper techniques of motorcycle steering here Sept. 8. The two-day Advanced Motorcycle Operator School course focused on different skills related to steering, braking, traction and increasing

Marines with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marines Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 6, stationed at Camp Fallujah, patrol through a small village north of Karmah, Iraq, September 10. Kilo Co. aided the Iraqi locals in establishing an Iraqi Community Watch, a first effort at Iraqi security forces in the region. The ICW will give Coalition Forces an enduring presence in the area to restrict the freedom of movement of terrorist forces. - Marines with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marines Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 6, stationed at Camp Fallujah, patrol through a small village north of Karmah, Iraq, September 10. Kilo Co. aided the Iraqi locals in establishing an Iraqi Community Watch, a first effort at Iraqi security forces in the region. The ICW will give Coalition Forces an enduring presence in the area to restrict the freedom of movement of terrorist forces.

Marines with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 6, stationed at Camp Fallujah, patrol through a small village north of Karmah, Iraq, Sept. 10. Kilo Co. started operations in the previously-untouched territories that are known for insurgent activities and hope to push the insurgents out of the area or trap them in to be captured. - Marines with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 6, stationed at Camp Fallujah, patrol through a small village north of Karmah, Iraq, Sept. 10. Kilo Co. started operations in the previously-untouched territories that are known for insurgent activities and hope to push the insurgents out of the area or trap them in to be captured.

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Lance Cpl. Jonathan S. Baker, a SAW gunner with Company C, 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 6, keeps on the lookout as he mans his turret mounted machine-gun during Operation Texas here, Aug. 31 to Sep. 3. The 19-year-old Bastrop, Texas, native watches for fires, smoke or signals from other units, but most of all he watches for insurgents. The combined operation, involving the Army’s 5th Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment, the Marine’s 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment and the “First of the First” battalion, concentrated on northern Saqlawiyah, an area which had not seen significant coalition presence in months. The operation was aimed at forcing insurgents and their murder and intimidation campaign out of this quiet agricultural community, where they hide, and into the hands of Coalition Forces. - Lance Cpl. Jonathan S. Baker, a SAW gunner with Company C, 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 6, keeps on the lookout as he mans his turret mounted machine-gun during Operation Texas here, Aug. 31 to Sep. 3. The 19-year-old Bastrop, Texas, native watches for fires, smoke or signals from other units, but most of all he watches for insurgents. The combined operation, involving the Army’s 5th Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment, the Marine’s 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment and the “First of the First” battalion, concentrated on northern Saqlawiyah, an area which had not seen significant coalition presence in months. The operation was aimed at forcing insurgents and their murder and intimidation campaign out of this quiet agricultural community, where they hide, and into the hands of Coalition Forces.