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

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Chapter 10 Out West with the "Raider" Brigade Combat Team The 1st Brigade Combat Team in Anbar Province was clearing portions of the provincial capitol, Ramadi. Though not attached to Task Force Marne, the "Raiders" continued the magnificent tradition of the 3rd Infantry Division alongside the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force. In February of 2007, the Raiders helped facilitate recruiting drives for Iraqi Police and Iraqi Army forces. The turnout was remarkable with over 1,200 new recruits including both jundi (soldiers) and shurta (patrolmen) stepping forward for the Iraqi Army and Iraqi Police, respectively. At the end of "Murfreesboro," an operation it had launched the same day it assumed AO Topeka, the Raiders established a new Joint Security Station (JSS) and police station. The JSS linked Iraqi Army, police, and coalition forces at one fixed site. For security forces that had rarely cooperated and barely trusted each other, it was a remarkable step forward. The arrangement
44 3rd Infantry Division Operations was efficient. It built confidence among Iraqi Security Forces and the public alike. This became the signature strategy for all operations under emerging counterinsurgency doctrine, part of "holding" terrain in the whole clear/hold/retain scheme. Securing the population had priority over everything else. After the population perceived that it was safe, jobs and investments came. The economy improved and local governments could assume control. Operation Murfreesboro was followed by Operation Okinawa and featured the concerted efforts of a Marine battalion and over 500 Iraqi police. Then, another Marine battalion was attached so that infantry, working with Task Force 3-69 Armor, could conduct Operation "Call to Freedom." During Call to Freedom, multiple caches were cleared and the brigade established a Civil Military Operations Center (CMOC) to provide humanitarian assistance to the city. March 31st, the day after Call to Freedom was completed, not a single attack or incident occurred in Ramadi, something unheard of just six weeks earlier. All indicators showed that something good was happening in the Anbar province. The number of complex attacks, those involving deliberate planning and multiple enemy weapon systems, dropped dramatically. The ISF were finding nearly seven out of every ten caches discovered. Naturally, ISF knew the terrain and understood what right looked like and when something was askew. Nine out of ten IEDs were found before they were detonated thanks to tips from the public and alert, well trained Iraqi and American Soldiers. Al-Qaeda was disrupted, and, rather than attacking hardened coalition forces, it fled the city and continued its murder and intimidation campaign against innocent civilians living in rural areas. The Raiders launched successive operations beginning in
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