3rd Infantry Division Operations - Fort Stewart - U.S. Army

Chapter 24
Conclusion
The 3rd Infantry Division answered the call to duty in
the winter of 2007. During its third Operation Iraqi
Freedom deployment, it saw the transition of a nation
on the brink of civil war to a nation with renewed hope
and stability. By the summer of 2008, the enemy of the Iraqi
people was on the run.
Just as it had in World War I, Dog Face Soldiers had held
the line to protect the national capitol of its new ally in the
war on terror. The scenic backdrop of the European countryside
had been exchanged for the heat, dust and uncertainty of
insurgent warfare, but the onslaught of a determined enemy
was the same. And as they had done 90 years earlier, by protecting
Paris, Dog Face Soldiers had distinguished themselves
in battle as part of a great task force at war. Moreover, they
gave hope to a people where little had existed before. For
the third time in four years, the 3rd Infantry Division lived up