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

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10 3rd Infantry Division Operations created the dynamic of traffic in numerous "villages" prepared for training. It was as realistic as training could be. Then came the inevitable. An official announcement for the brigade's deployment came from the Department of Defense before it had finished field training. The 1st Brigade was ordered to deploy to Iraq in January 2007. The 1st Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF) was operating in Iraq's westernmost province and commanded the Multi-National Force - West. The Raiders would join the MNF-W in the Anbar Province and would help chart a new course for history with United States Marines. The herculean effort to move troops and equipment was impressive. Ships were loaded. Equipment was packed and shipped. Then, Soldiers bade farewell to loved ones before boarding buses bound for Hunter Army Airfield. There they were served one last meal on American soil before filing through a cordon of flag-waving patriots to jetliners, bound for Kuwait and ultimately, war. At Camp Buehring in Kuwait, Soldiers practiced battle drills with small units. Each learned the latest techniques to spot and counter Improvised Explosive Devices (IED). IEDs, the weapon of choice for insurgents, represented the greatest threat to coalition forces. They were sometimes made from old artillery, other times from a combination of fuel and fertilizer coupled with an electrical or mechanical trigger. Equipment was readied and the long journey to Ramadi, the Anbar provincial capital, began. The battlefield had changed and the enemy had moved into urban areas. Tanks and heavy tracked vehicles, an advantage over the enemy in two previous Operation Iraqi Freedom deployments, was lessened. Tank crews and artillerymen had to learn infantry skills. They needed to know how to form a line of battle dismounted. Instead
The Surge 11 of forming wedges with heavy armor on an open desert they learned to "stack" Soldiers in files to enter buildings. Soldiers learned how to quick fire their individual weapons from the hip, and patrol without their armored vehicles. Drivers were trained and tested on the heavier armored wheeled vehicles not available at home station. Canals and narrow roads, potholes and human traffic, coupled with limited visibility had contributed to vehicle roll over accidents so crew drills were practiced in hydraulic vehicle simulators. Safety was the focal point for everything that unit leaders planned to do but they each understood that they could not be averse to risk and still accomplish their missions. In Ramadi The Anbar province was notorious as a sanctuary for al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI). Even the name "Ramadi" held a certain air of foreboding in those days. Hard battles had been fought in the cities of Ramadi and Fallujah for three years. AQI even named Ramadi the capital of the Islamic State of Iraq and had conducted a parade in October of 2006 to illustrate their point. The majority Sunni population had been staunch opponents of the Shia led national government. The Raiders were about to confront a hateful enemy, a distrusting host, and a desperate social condition which tore at the fabric of national stability for all Iraq. The challenge to the 1st BCT was clear but first it had to get there. The brigade would move north by air and ground. Next, it would relieve a unit that had held its ground during the previous year. It would then fight the enemy on his home turf. The relief in place and Transfer of Authority (TOA) is difficult in any condition. The outgoing unit must familiarize the incoming unit with the ground on which it will fight. New
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