An air strike is called in on a suspected insurgent hideout at the edge of Fallujah, Iraq by U.S. The British Black Watch Regiment was engaged in a similar mission to block off the east and south sides of Fallujah. The combat teams took control of two major bridges to prevent any enemy retreat from the northern and eastern part of the city. RCT 1 assaulted the city from the north, while RCT 7 attacked the eastern part of the city. With insurgents expecting an attack from the south and southeast, coalition forces adapted and changed their plans. On the 8 th of November, RCT 1 and RCT 7 began their offensive on the city with the help of artillery bombardment and continued airstrikes. On the night of November 7 th, intense shelling and air strikes pounded the city in preparation of ground operations. American UAVs documented live-fire exercises within the city to prepare for the coming attack. forces would seek out high rooftops as vantage points, insurgents bricked off stairways and created paths they hoped would funnel them into prepared fields of fire. To create covered positions to attack from, they placed barriers in the streets and inside buildings. Homes were filled with propane tanks and large barrels of gasoline with ordnance wired to explode. They dug mazes of tunnels and trenches and placed IEDs throughout the city. VoorisĪs coalition forces surrounded the city with checkpoints, more than 3,000 insurgents prepared fortified defenses. Operation Al Fajr is an offensive operation to eradicate enemy forces within the city of Fallujah in support of continuing security and stabilization operations in the Al Anbar province of Iraq by units of the 1st Marine Division. Marines of 2nd Squad, 3rd Platoon, L Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, patrol south clearing every house on their way through Fallujah, Iraq, during Operation Al Fajr (New Dawn). Iraqi Special Forces Soldiers assigned to the U.S. The coalition troops were assisted by 2,000 Iraqi troops, as well as U.S. Army’s 2nd Battalion/2nd Infantry, 1st Battalion/3rd Marines, 1st Battalion/8th Marines, and 2nd Battalion/12th Cavalry. RCT 1 was comprised of 3rd Battalion/5th Marines, 3rd Battalion/1st Marines, 23 Seabees, the Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 4, and the U.S. However, insurgent strength soon grew, as Fallujah became a haven for Iraqi resistance fighters.Ĭoalition troops were grouped into two Combat Teams: Regimental Combat Team 1 (RCT1) and Regimental Combat Team 7 (RCT 7). Marines launched Operation Vigilant Resolve (First Battle of Fallujah) to take back control of the city from insurgent forces, but soon after an agreement was reached in which the local population was ordered to keep the insurgents out of the city. In March of 2004, four American private military contractors were ambushed and killed in Fallujah. Marines at Camp Fallujah, Iraq (IRQ), engage enemy targets in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. The US Marine Corps (USMC) M-198 155mm Howitzer gun crew of 4th Battalion, 14th Marines. Marines have been involved in since the Battle of Huê City in Vietnam in 1968. military called it “some of the heaviest urban combat U.S. Army and Marine Corps against the Iraqi insurgents in the city of Fallujah. Operation Phantom Fury, also called the Second Battle of Fallujah, was a joint American, Iraqi, and British offensive in November and December 2004, which was led by the U.S. forces killed and 560 wounded in Operation Phantom Fury in 2004. Phantom and Fury are named in memory of the 95 U.S. Fury is a 4-month old lab who was donated by Kate Gibbons. Phantom is a 5-month old Great Pyrenees mix who comes to us from our rescue partner, Operation Paws for Homes. Semper K9 is honored to announce the acceptance of Phantom and Fury into our Service Dogs for Veterans program.
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