![]() ![]() Siege of Fallujah." Democracy Now! 22 Feb. "EXCLUSIVE: Al Jazeera Reporters Give Bloody First Hand Account of April â��04 U.S. Goodman, Amy, Ahmad Mansur, and Laith Mushtaq. "Fallujah Four Months Later | News | English." Voice of America. "With Airpower and Armor, Troops Enter Rebel-Held City." New York Times. Lyndonville, New York enlistment date June 1999 Military Occupation 11B Infantryman unit 3rd Platoon, Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry. "Signaling Resolve, Democratization, and the First Battle of Fallujah." Journal of Strategic Studies 29.3 (2006): 423-52. Marines commenced Operation Phantom Fury. ![]() Hits Fallujah Mosque Complex Rumsfeld Signals Tour Extensions." The Seattle Times. bloody episodes of the Iraq War was the second battle for Fallujah in November 2004. "Fallujah's Mosques Hid Arms, Militants." USA Today. "DefendAmerica Photo Essay - Cordon Around Fallujah." DefendAmerica. Editor’s note: This article was originally published in 2015. "Uneasy Truce in the City of Ghosts." The Guardian. Marines patrol the streets of Fallujah, Iraq during Operation Phantom Fury November, 2004. "Fallujah: City of Resistance." CBS News. We just turned around and started shooting and the grenade explodes.3. Description: The Second Battle of Fallujah, code-named Operation Phantom Fury, was a joint American, Iraqi, and British offensive in November and December 2004. It’s like throwing a hand with a grenade in it at us. “We could see the house crumble and then one of the Marines shouted out, ‘Take cover,’ and you could see a hand coming out like a horror movie. ![]() “After that, we put 20 pounds of C-4 and blew the house ,” he continued. We trapped one guy on the stairway and kept shooting him and two of our Marines, Marquez and Shafer, who got shot in the arm, they took Kasal out. He said there were two houses pushed together with a second-floor catwalk where the enemy was shooting at them and throwing grenades. We worked as Marines to take care of each other to not leave anybody behind.” “The 3rd platoon took a lot of injuries but the first and second squad from 2nd Platoon worked together with them to get them out. There were Marines trapped inside the house, and we were trying to figure out how the hell we’re going to get those guys out,” he said. “ Kasal went into this house to clear it, and was hit 13 or 14 times. “We blew it - that was one of the lucky days we had.”ĭuring Operation Phantom Fury in 2004, while assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines out of Camp Pendleton, California, Munoz and his team went to help his fellow Marines who were trapped inside a house near his compound. They were already set up, and you would just need somebody to click the send button and that was it. “We found one big cache and had to blow it in place, but I was a little bit scared one day because they used to use those Motorola cell phones. Munoz said he and his team would blow up houses that had big caches of weapons but they always feared being blown up by remote-controlled bombs. We were just kicking and firing, making sure everybody from left to right was still alive.” They didn’t want us there, and they were ready for us. “We were getting incoming mortars, rockets, IEDs (improvised explosive devices) so it was pretty harsh. Munoz said he and his fellow Marines took part in convoys in the Sunni Triangle in the south part of Fallujah in Iraq, during the main push. His most memorable assignment, he said, was his deployment to Iraq. He also coached the rifle and pistol shooting at the Marine Corps Coaches Course. 1, 1998, and he served seven years as a security specialist and infantryman, attaining the rank of sergeant. ![]() “He was very professional,” Munoz said of his recruiter. “When I went to the Marine recruiter, he said, ‘What you want is a job. “I was just born to be a Marine,” said Munoz, an Iraq combat vet who’d served in the Corps from 1998 to 2005. ![]()
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