When Mike Tabura shipped off to Iraq in 2004 with the Marines, he called his wife to announce his safe arrival. She told him: “I’m pregnant!” Tabura was 26 and soon deployed for Operation Phantom Fury ...
After Justin McLeese’s death, his mom, Sharon, worked on building a tomb in his hometown. She called it her “crazy grieving mother tomb” ...
Twenty years ago, on Nov. 7, 2004, a coalition assault force of more than 15,000 troops, mostly Marines, launched a massive attack on the city of Fallujah, Iraq. Over the next seven weeks they would ...
Rettenberger — “Rett” to his men — was with Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Division, and just 24 years old when he led his squad of men still in their teens through the streets of the Iraqi ...
U.S. marines and Army forces and Iraqi soldiers are attempting to retake Fallujah, which is currently controlled by thousands of rebel fighters. Dubbed Operation Phantom Fury, this new offensive is ...