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    The First Battle of Fallujah, code-named Operation Vigilant Resolve, was an operation against militants in Fallujah as well as an attempt to apprehend...
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    Operation Vigilant Resolve. They returned to Iraq in 2005 with the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit and engaged in combat operations during Operation Steel...
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    participated in Operation Vigilant Resolve in the restive city of Fallujah. They were deployed a third time in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, one...
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    killed in action while serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom. He is best known for his actions during Operation Vigilant Resolve, which were detailed in the book...
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    city of Fallujah in the Iraqi province of Al Anbar. As part of Operation Vigilant Resolve, on 28 April 2004, Carrier Air Wing Seven squadrons VFA-136, VFA-131...
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    launched Operation Vigilant Resolve (5 April 2004) to take back control of the city from insurgent forces. On 28 April 2004, Operation Vigilant Resolve ended...
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    redeployed to Iraq in March 2004 and subsequently took part in Operation Vigilant Resolve while attached to the 1st Marine Regiment. They subsequently deployed...
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  • attention to issues around private contractors and prompting Operation Vigilant Resolve, which evolved into the first Battle of Fallujah. Their bodies...
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    aboard Dwight D. Eisenhower followed in 2009 and 2010. As part of Operation Vigilant Resolve, on 28 April 2004, Carrier Air Wing Seven squadrons VFA-136, VFA-131...
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    were hung on a bridge. (See also: 31 March 2004 Fallujah ambush, Operation Vigilant Resolve) On March 28, 2005, 16 American contractors and three Iraqi aides...
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    redeployed to Iraq for Operation Iraqi Freedom from February 2004 to October 2004, where it took part in Operation Vigilant Resolve; September 2005 to April...
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    mutilated and hung on a bridge in the city. On 7 April 2004, Operation Vigilant Resolve commenced in response to these deaths. After intense urban fighting...
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    lead assaults on the city of Fallujah in April (Operation Vigilant Resolve) and November 2004 (Operation Phantom Fury) and saw intense fighting in such...
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    participated in Operation Just Cause, the invasion of Panama.[citation needed] The 1990s began with elements of the Division participating in Operation Sharp Edge...
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    support in and around the city of Fallujah during Operation Vigilant Resolve and follow-on operations. HMLA-775 redeployed to Iraq in early 2005 to provide...
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    six months. During Operation Vigilant Resolve in Fallujah in April 2004, HMLA-167 sent a detachment to help with surge operations from Al Taqaddum. The...
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  • Polish-Bulgarian defense of Karbala's City Hall starts. April 4 – Operation Vigilant Resolve begins in response to the mutilation on March 31 in Fallujah....
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    Augustus 2011 OPERATIONS: OPERATION NEW HOPE (Mosul), Institute for the study of War. Retrieved 3 Augustus 2011 OPERATIONS: OPERATION Ninewa Resolve, Institute...
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  • until March 2004. 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines took over operations prior to Operation Vigilant Resolve and renamed the base Camp Baharia. 3rd Battalion, 5th...
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    Anbar province in western Iraq; it was the lead unit in Operation Vigilant Resolve and Operation Phantom Fury in 2004. During February and March 2005, the...
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    roles in combat operations in Fallujah, including negotiation with the insurgent command inside the city during Operation Vigilant Resolve in April 2004...
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    (3/11), 1st Marine Division, and I Marine Expeditionary Force, during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Phelps was killed in Iraq as the convoy he was escorting...
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    led to an abortive US operation to recapture control of the city in Operation Vigilant Resolve, and a successful recapture operation in the city in November...
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  • the Euphrates. In response, U.S. Marines attacked the city in Operation Vigilant Resolve, which became the first Battle of Fallujah. In the fall of 2007...
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    2004 U.S. Marine led operations in Fallujah Operation Vigilant Resolve April 04–April 09, 2004 Operation Phantom Fury November 07–December 23, 2004 American...
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    other units in the Al Anbar Province. CSSB-1 participated in Operation Vigilant Resolve by establishing tactical control points (TCP's) around Fallujah...
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    detachment to Naval Station Rota, Spain for operations in support of Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm. The Bulldogs briefly occupied...
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    2014 to December 2014. Elements of 1st MLG also participated in Operation Inherent Resolve in Iraq and Syria from August 2014 through into 2019. A unit citation...
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    support in Operation Provide Comfort and Operation Southern Watch over Iraq. The wing was once more called into service in Somalia for Operation Restore...
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    Exercise Destined Glory, Operation Joint Endeavor, Operation Deny Flight, Operation Southern Watch, and Operation Vigilant Resolve. After 2001 the group...
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