REAL WORLD EVENT

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Friendly Forces

The 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment was first activated in May of 1942 in New River, North Carolina. A mere year later, the men of the 2/3 would be thrust into four campaigns of World War II.

Over the next few decades, the 2/3 faced several relocations and deactivations, until the Battalion Landing Team of the Seventh Fleet (as the 2/3 was then called) was deployed to Okinawa. .

By 1965, the unit set up camp in Da Nang, Republic of Vietnam, where they fought for four long years. Upon returning to the US, the 2/3 made its home base in Camp Pendleton, California.

By 1991, the unit deployed again to Southeast Asia, this time to Kuwait to fight Saddam Hussein’s incoming Iraqi forces, and in 1994, the unit was officially reassigned as part of the 3rd Marine Division.

Little more than a decade later, the 2/3 has now returned to the Middle East in joint ventures designed to secure and stabilize various cities in Iraq and Afghanistan. The 2/3 has also proven itself capable of leading massive offensive campaigns, such as Operation Whalers in the troubled eastern provinces of Afghanistan.
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Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) teams travel around the globe to provide expertise in the re-construction and detonation of explosive devices of all kinds, including conventional ordnances, nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. Navy EOD troops routinely clear minefields and coastal regions, and secure extensive, global events like the Olympics.

Divisions of the EOD include special anti-terrorist response teams that provide technical advice on an international scale after major catastrophes, like the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

While working in the United States, the EOD continually protects both citizens and members of the Secret Service and the State Department, including the president, vice president and other state and foreign officials. Navy EOD teams also lend continued support to the US Department of the Treasury, the US Customs Office, the FBI, and regional bomb squads.

Most recently, Navy EOD teams carry the enormous burden of safely dismantling IEDs used against Coalition forces and civilians in Iraq. Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technicians are experts in both foreign and domestic explosives, all types and sizes of homemade bombs and the detonation techniques employed in wounding and killing many people with a single blast.
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Enemy Forces

There are dozens of insurgent groups carrying out attacks against coalition forces in Iraq: rebel forces consisting of regime loyalists, nationalistic groups opposed to the US presence, formerly suppressed Islamists, a variety of jihaddists groups and foreign militias. It is often difficult to separate the various factions as many are closely-aligned al Qaeda groups led by master terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, or even possibly the same group operating under various names.
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Formed around 1988 by Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda helped finance, recruit, transport and train thousands of fighters from dozens of countries as part of the Afghan resistance against the Soviet Union. The resulting group turned into an international terrorist network after the war, and in February, 1998, it issued a statement declaring war on all US citizens and allies, everywhere they could be found. It’s strength further increased in June, 2001, when it merged with an Egyptian terrorist group headed by Ayman al-Zawahiri.

Al Qaeda has sophisticated tactics for assassination, bombing, hijacking, and kidnapping, with good operational security, and long-range planning. Many reports and statements from bin Laden himself indicate that the group is determined to build or steal biological, chemical and nuclear weapons. Their targets tend to be prominent symbols and public buildings, high-profile buildings. According to CIA head George Tenet, the organization has increasingly focused on developing puppet groups to carry out attacks in which bin Ladin's fingerprints are not detected.

With a global financial network, dozens of affiliated groups, and several thousand recruits, the organization has provided training and support for terrorists fighting in Afghanistan, Algeria, Bosnia, Chechnya, Eritrea, Kosovo, the Philippines, Somalia, Tajikistan, Yemen, Kosovo, as well as North and South America.
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