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US Marine Corps (USMC) Marines assigned to Battalion Landing Team (BLT), 1ST Battalion, 6th Marines, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), Special Operations Capable (SOC), armed with 5.56 mm M16A4 rifles and a 5.56 mm M249 Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW), search the village of Khabargho, Afghanistan for arms caches and Taliban insurgents during Operation Asbury Park. During eight days of intense fighting more than 80 Taliban fighters were killed while eight Marines were wounded in the most intense clashes during the MEU's deployment in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM
A US Marine Corps (USMC) Marine assigned to Battalion Landing Team (BLT), 1ST Battalion, 6th Marines, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), Special Operations Capable (SOC), provides security as his comrades search the village of Khabargho, Afghanistan for arms caches and Taliban insurgents during ASBURY PARK, June 3, 2004. During eight days of intense fighting in early June, more than 80 Taliban fighters were killed while eight Marines were wounded in the most intense clashes during the MEU's deployment in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM
US Marine Corps (USMC) Marines assigned to Battalion Landing Team (BLT), 1ST Battalion, 6th Marines, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), Special Operations Capable (SOC), armed with 5.56 mm M16A4 rifles and a 5.56 mm M249 Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW), search Afghani men for weapons during a cordon search of the village of Khabargho, Afghanistan, as they look for arms caches and Taliban insurgents during Operation Asbury Park. During eight days of intense fighting more than 80 Taliban fighters were killed while eight Marines were wounded in the most intense clashes during the MEU's deployment in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM
US Marine Corps (USMC) Marines assigned to Battalion Landing Team (BLT), 1ST Battalion, 6th Marines, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), Special Operations Capable (SOC), armed with 5.56 mm M16A4 rifles and a 5.56 mm M249 Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW), search the village of Khabargho, Afghanistan for arms caches and Taliban insurgents during Operation Asbury Park. During eight days of intense fighting more than 80 Taliban fighters were killed while eight Marines were wounded in the most intense clashes during the MEU's deployment in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM
A US Marine Corps (USMC) Marine assigned to Battalion Landing Team (BLT), 1ST Battalion, 6th Marines, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), Special Operations Capable (SOC), shows off a ballooned round found in a Taliban fighting position from which the Marines where engaged minutes earlier near the village of Siah Chub Kalay, Afghanistan, during Operation Asbury Park. During eight days of intense fighting more than 80 Taliban fighters were killed while eight Marines were wounded in the most intense clashes during the MEU's deployment in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM
US Marine Corps (USMC) Marines assigned to the Battalion Landing Team (BLT), 1ST Battalion, 6th Marines, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), Special s Capable (SOC), carry their wounded comrades and enemy detainees out of the rugged Afghani mountains after a firefight with Taliban insurgents near the village of Khabargho, Afghanistan during Asbury Park. The ensuing firefight resulted in five Taliban fighters dead, three Marines wounded, and three enemy combatants being captured. During eight days of intense fighting more than 80 Taliban fighters were killed while eight Marines were wounded in the most intense clashes during the MEU's deployment in support of...
US Marine Corps (USMC) Marines assigned to Battalion Landing Team (BLT), 1ST Battalion, 6th Marines, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), Special Operations Capable (SOC), armed with 5.56 mm M16A4 rifles search the village of Khabargho, Afghanistan for arms caches and Taliban insurgents during Operation Asbury Park. During eight days of intense fighting more than 80 Taliban fighters were killed while eight Marines were wounded in the most intense clashes during the MEU's deployment in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM
An Air Force crewchief from the 28th Air Expeditionary Wing, services a hydraulic line on a B-1B Lancer bomber during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. Air Force B-2 Spirit, B-1 Lancer, and B-52 Stratofortress, bombers expended more than 80 percent of the tonnage dropped on combat missions over Afghanistan to date. The Air Force flew more than 600 sorties including strike missions against al Qaeda and Taliban targets in Afghanistan. These targets include early-warning radar systems, ground forces, Command-and-Control facilities, al Qaeda infrastructure, airfields and aircraft. Operation ENDURING FREEDOM is in support of the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), fighting terrorism abroad
A US Army (USA) AH-64 Apache attack helicopter provides overhead cover for US Marine Corps (USMC) ground forces from the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), Special Operations Capable (SOC), fording a river in their High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWV), in the Oruzgan Province in Afghanistan, during Operation Thunder Road. The Operation is the last combat operation undertaken by the MEU during its four-month deployment to Afghanistan in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM
A US Army AH-64 Apache attack helicopter flies close air support as a US Marine Corps (USMC) Marine assigned to Battalion Landing Team (BLT), 1ST Battalion, 6th Marines, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), Special Operations Capable (SOC), armed with 5.56 mm M16A4 rifle, conducts a cordon search of the village of Khabargho, Afghanistan, looking for arms caches and Taliban insurgents during Operation Asbury Park. During eight days of intense fighting more than 80 Taliban fighters were killed while eight Marines were wounded in the most intense clashes during the MEU's deployment in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM
Base: Khabargho
State: Zabol
Country: Afghanistan (AFG)
Scene Camera Operator: GYSGT Keith A. Milks, USMC
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
The United States Marine Corps traces its roots to the Continental Marines of the American Revolutionary War, formed by a resolution of the Second Continental Congress on 10 November 1775. That date is celebrated as the Marine Corps's birthday. Throughout the late 19th and 20th centuries, Marine detachments served aboard Navy cruisers, battleships, and aircraft carriers. About 600,000 Americans served in the U.S. Marine Corps in World War II, performed a central role in the Pacific War. The Pacific theatre battles saw fierce fighting between Marines and the Imperial Japanese Army. The Battle of Iwo Jima was arguably the most famous Marine engagement of the war with high losses of 26,000 American casualties and 22,000 Japanese. By the end of WWII, the Corps expanded totaling about 485,000 Marines. Nearly 87,000 Marines were casualties during World War II (including nearly 20,000 killed), and 82 were awarded the Medal of Honor. The Korean War saw the Corps expand from 75,000 regulars to a force of 261,000 Marines, mostly reservists. 30,544 Marines were killed or wounded during the war. During Vietnam War Marines evacuated Saigon. Vietnam was the longest war for Marines. By its end, 13,091 had been killed in action, 51,392 had been wounded. Marines participated in the failed 1980 Iran hostage rescue attempt, the invasion of Grenada, the invasion of Panama. On 23 October 1983, the Marine headquarters building in Beirut, Lebanon, was bombed, causing the highest peacetime losses to the Corps in its history. 220 Marines and 21 other service members were killed. Marines liberated Kuwait during the Persian Gulf War, participated in combat operations in Somalia (1992–1995), and took part in the evacuation of American citizens from the US Embassy in Tirana, Albania. Following the attacks on 11 September 2001, Marine Corps, alongside the other military services, has engaged in global operations around the world in support of War on Terror. Marines were among first sent to Afghanistan in November 2001. Since then, Marine battalions and squadrons have been engaging Taliban and Al-Qaeda forces. U.S. Marines also served in the Iraq War.
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