Army Saves Marines In Fallujah - Army Military As the fighting intensified, platoons from the company conducted house-to-house operations to clear out the city. Marine Corps commandant Gen. Michael Hagee told the House Armed Services Committee that their training had drawn on procedures used by the Los Angeles Police Department for neighborhood patrolling in gang-dominated areas, as well as best practices from other small wars and peacekeeping operations. (Photo courtesy of Sgt. "We've lost more guys to suicide than we lost in the battle now," Jake Edwards, a former combat engineer who fought as a lance corporal in Fallujah. Faced with a determined enemy that would often boobytrap and mine the buildings they were in, the battalion ramped up its use of air support, and the ensuing barrage earned the nickname Hurricane Isabel.. And this is what I want for every young Soldier coming up the ranks. There he began a recruitment process to put sharpshooters on Naval vessels to protect them. Mike Hanks, found themselves moving down a side street alongside Iraqi soldiers and their Marine advisers. He started giving up on his career. Now he was feet away from the front door of a house along an abandoned block in the city of 350,000. Incredibly, they were able to take enough of the weight off of Smith that other Marines, who ran over when they heard screaming, were able to pull the pinned man to safety. His parents and siblings helped, he said, but he began making real progress when his uncle, who'd seen combat in Vietnam, began talking about his own experiences. Marines Pull Back From Fallujah - CBS News It was very challenging for Marines going house to house to house to identify who was left. Before their deployment in mid-March, Marine commanders said they would adopt a softer approach than the Army. But he also had a lot of time to think about what he'd seen there. And of course, many were abandoned, and when you hit a house where the enemy was well-entrenched and well-supplied, there were some incredible fights. Elements of the US Marine Corps began an offensive in April to destroy enemy forces in the town, but the battle ended prematurely with the Marines being replaced by the Fallujah Brigade, followed soon after by a complete enemy takeover of the city. Theyre larger than life and in some cases seem unbelievable. Inside and outside the house, Workman's "heroic actions contributed to the elimination of 24 insurgents," his citation states. last of the brohicans on Twitter: "@GeorgeArmatas Marines doctrine was While we were there, we did our job and we did it very well and at a hell of a cost. Civilian casualties were inevitable and anger spread across Iraq, leading to street protests and more attacks on coalition forces. So we've got to stay in the fight.'".