The War Of The United States

Lieutenant General (LtGen) Richard F. Natonski, United States Marine Corps, commanded the 1st Marine Division (1 MAR DIV), to include a Brigade and specialized units from the US Army and Iraqi Forces in support of Operation Phantom Fury to gain command and control of Fallujah, Iraq, in November 2004. He described the situation to subordinate units and directed them continuously on the ground while simultaneously assessing the mission accomplished. An excellent execution of mission command and the operations process resulted in the restoration of local government in Fallujah.

The Persian Gulf War began with Saddam Hussein, the dictator of Iraq moving his forces into the neighboring country Kuwait mid-1990. During this time Iraq had the fourth largest army in the world, after being supplied by the United Sates during their eight year war with Iran raised some concerns. (Operation Desert Storm) Also with the chance of Iraq controlling one-fifth of the world’s oil supply didn’t sit well with the United States, nor its Allied forces. (Operation Desert Storm) Early August 1990 the United Nations Security Council directed Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait by 15 January 1991. (Operation Desert Storm) Towards the end of 1990 United Sates began the defense of Saudi Arabia, which known as Operation Desert Shield. Along with multilateral support, the United States sent

On November 10th, 1775 the Marine Corps was established in Tun Tavern during the Revolutionary War. Since that time, the Marines have played an important role in securing America’s freedom through countless battles. The Marines have distinguished themselves as an elite force specializing in military tactics which assist in defeating the enemy under any circumstance. The Marine Corps is a small branch with limited personnel which allows them the

Chris joined the Navy in 1999 where shortly after, he would go to BUD/S training, Basic

Operation Al-Fajr in Arabic, Operation Phantom Fury was the code name given to the second battle of Fallujah, considered the hottest point of conflict of all the military campaign in Iraq. Led by the US Marine Corp against the Iraqi combatants, who had held the city under their control, some consider it was the most difficult battle marines have been involved since Vietnam in the 60s. The battle put end to the insurgent control over the city and constituted an important victory for the US troops, however such victory had a high painful price 1.

The film Jarhead came out in 2005 and the war started on 1990. So that's 15 years after the war actually started. The long time period suggests that this movie may be inaccurate. Also the term for a Marine is a Jarhead but no one knows for sure of what they called each other but Jarhead is the most accurate term. Also Anthony Swofford's drill instructor was sadistic meaning he liked the pleasure of inflicting pain on the soldiers and humiliating them. A little Humiliation was fine but pain was not ok unless it was from training but a drill instructor can not purposely hurt one of his trainees. Another problem that happened that is not accurate is when Anthony first got to his barrack and his platoon held him down and branded the letters USMC on him. This rarely happens and is inaccurate. While this happened there was another scene when they were in the desert and reporters were recording them. But while that was being done a group of the soldiers where striped down and

Chaos struck and the Marines were anxious to get to shore and dig their foxholes. They arrived at the beaches in 7 different landing zones. On the first day, 30,000 men arrived at the beach with over 40,000 more men to follow. Their goal for day 1, to take Airfield #1. Confusion lurked among the men as they

On February 27th, the coalition of forces entered Kuwait City forcing Iraq to come with a plan to cease-fire after hours of deliberations. (Farley) On March 3rd, General Schwartzopf sat down with Iraq military and came up with the terms of the cease-fire before they could remove all the troops. (Farley) On March 6th, President Bush addressed the congress to announce the liberation of Kuwait about the cease-fire and removal of the US troops. (Farley) On March 8th, U.S. forces began touching American soil for the very first time in several months in Iraq and Kuwait. (Farley)

This whole operation was unknown territory. Our Army was encountering a situation we had not seen outside of training in quite a while. Supplies required was an estimated guess, but the biggest problem was most likely logistics. The location was Iraq, a harsh desert, hard on our equipment. The wear and tear was greater than expected requiring more parts than were locally available. We had the need without the way.

On March 20, 2003, the combined military forces of the United States and Britain crossed the southern border of Iraq and Kuwait with the intent of capitulating the government of Saddam Hussein. Over the course of 21 days, the joint task force moved quickly and decisively to seize major objective cities along the road to Baghdad using aviation, armor, artillery, and infantry. Following the overwhelming success of the primary combat operations of the invasion, stability and support systems proved insufficient as sectarian violence and other criminal activity among the local population of Iraq increased.

The specific key event was when King Fahd invited the U.S. to send forces to the Saudi Arabia. This invitation was given after close diplomatic consultation between the Secretary of Defense and King Fahd. After that President Bush ordered the Department of Defense to begin deployments. It was great possibility to prepare plans for operation and concentrate troops very close to the border to Kuwait.

In 2005 a four man Navy SEALs team was deployed into in Afghanistan with one mission: to take out high value target Ahmad Shah. Shah was a high ranking individual in Bin Laden's army and a primal leader of the Taliban. Marcus Luttrell was one of four Navy SEALs who was deployed on this mission, along with his closes friends and fellow teammates Michael Murphy, Danny Dietz and Matthew "Axe" Axelson. Within a few hours of the mission his team was ambushed. Luttrell witnessed all three of his teammate die along with a rescue helicopter that was destroyed with sixteen on board. This failed mission was the largest loss of lives in Navy SEAL history. Marcus Luttrell witness great levels of heroism and tragic take place resulting in him being the

On March 19, 2003, the United States invaded Iraq, beginning what is now known as the Second Gulf War. The invasion, also known as Operation Iraqi Freedom by the United States, lasted one month, and is speculated to have been one of the starting points in the Global War against Terrorism. The goal of the invasion, and the war, was to topple the regime of the dictator Saddam Hussein.

The 1/6 Marine battalion my brother was a part of, also had to march in

Operation Enduring Freedom was conceived in response to the notorious attacks on the 11 September 2001. Combat operations began on 7 October 2001 when mixed ordnance strikes from land-based B-1 Lancer, B-52 Stratofortress, and B-2 Spirit bombers; carrier-based F-14 and F-18 fighter bombers; and Tomahawk cruise missiles from U.S. and British warships hit Afghan soil where taliban fighters were suspected of using to train and arm terrorists signaled the start of Operation Enduring Freedom. In January of the following year, the United States Special Operations Command Pacific (SOCPAC) deployed 1,200 soldiers to support the Armed Forces of the Philippines in their own push to eliminate global and local terrorist organization