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U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Daniel Lefebvre provides security as a convoy passes through an entry control point in the Nawa district of the Helmand province of Afghanistan Sept. 28, 2009. Lefebvre is assigned to Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, a combat element of Regimental Combat Team 3 that is [...]
Story and photos by Gunnery Sgt. Chris W. Cox
KHOSRABAD, Helmand Province, Afghanistan – Marines with 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment provided medical assistance to a young boy and a man who had been injured when an IED meant for their patrol prematurely detonated here, Aug. 23.
“We were patrolling through an area we’d been in quite [...]
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U.S. Marines with 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment sort mail at Patrol Base Jaker in the Nawa district, Helmand province, Afghanistan, on Aug 23, 2009. The 1st Battalion is deployed with Regimental Combat Team 3 to conduct counterinsurgency operations in partnership with Afghan security forces in southern Afghanistan. DoD [...]
U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Bartlett, a radio operator with the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, provides security during a patrol in the Nawa district of Afghanistan’s Helmand province on Aug. 13, 2009. The 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment is deployed with Regimental Combat Team 3, which conducts counter insurgency operations in partnership with Afghan National [...]
Fellow U.S. Marines escort Sgt. Michael Medina-Sanchez to a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter during his medical evacuation in the Nawa district of the Helmand province of Afghanistan Aug. 4, 2009. Medina-Sanchez, assigned to Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 3 (-REIN), 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, Afghanistan, was shot in the [...]
Afghan soldiers and U.S. Marines with 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment conduct a road reconnaissance patrol in Nawa District, Helmand province, Afghanistan, on July 25, 2009. U.S. Marines with 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 3, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade -Afghanistan are deployed in support of NATO’s International Security Assistance Force and will [...]
