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

30 3rd Infantry Division Operations
two Soldiers remained missing. Every Soldier that could go
searched day and night for the missing men. Military working
dogs, the most sophisticated intelligence resources, unmanned
aerial vehicles, helicopters, and airplanes participated. All
available evidence was collected using sophisticated technology.
Hundreds of suspects were detained and questioned by
Iraqi and US military forces.
Commando Razor had become a large scale, deliberate clearance
operation. Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Device
factories were found and destroyed. Al-Qaeda weapons caches,
the lifeblood of an insurgent's supplies, were found and cleared.
Numerous suspected insurgents, including men who were directly
involved in the May 12th attack, were captured. Other
terrorists, fearing their own capture, ran away ending their
influence over the villages and tribes.
True to the Warrior Ethos, the "Commandos" had vowed to
never leave a fallen comrade behind. Their loss strengthened
their resolve. Where they'd fallen, a permanent outpost was
constructed. The Iraqis in the community could see that the insurgents
had not forced the departure of the American Soldiers.
The 2nd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division redeployed to Fort
Drum in October of 2007. The continued search effort for their
two missing Soldiers passed to the 3rd Brigade, 101st Airborne
(Air Assault) who joined Task Force Marne that fall. A permanent
cell was established in MND-C with the sole purpose of
continuing the collection of intelligence information and the
search for our two missing Soldiers. Other deliberate operations
were launched in support of the effort to find the missing
men. Several terrorists, including the main leader of the attack
were killed. Others were captured. The search continues until
they are found and their Families and friends have closure.