Operation Strike of the Sword or Operation Khanjar was a US-led offensive in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan. About 4,000 Marines from the 2nd...
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2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade (United States) (category Units and formations of the United States in the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021))
the Operation Strike of the Sword and the Battle of Marjah, the largest battles since the start of the Afghanistan Campaign.[citation needed] The 2nd...
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Operation Scorch Sword (Persian: عَمَلیاتِ شمشیرِ سوزان) was an Iranian airstrike on Iraq's Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Centre in 1980. Conducted eight days...
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Firebase Fiddler's Green (category Military installations of the United States in Afghanistan)
for Operation Strike of the Sword. History of the United States Marine Corps Fiddler's Green List of United States Marine Corps installations List of ISAF...
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Nawa-I-Barakzayi District (category United States Marine Corps in the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021))
part of Operation Strike of the Sword. In January 2010 ISAF chief Stanley McChrystal and the country's prime minister Hamid Karzai visited the district...
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Task Force Leatherneck (category Ad hoc units and formations of the United States Marine Corps)
Leatherneck participated in Operation Strike of the Sword (Operation Khanjar), the largest Marine Corps operation since the Battle of Fallujah, and then in...
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2nd Battalion, 8th Marines (category Infantry battalions of the United States Marine Corps)
World War II, the battalion participated in the Battle of Guadalcanal, Battle of Tarawa, Battle of Saipan, Battle of Tinian and the Battle of Okinawa. Following...
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Order of the Sword inductee". Air Force Global Strike Command Public Affairs. Retrieved November 12, 2014. "COMUSAFE inducted into Order of the Sword". Kaiserslautern...
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Camp Leatherneck (category Military installations of the United States in Afghanistan)
marked the end of their operations in Afghanistan, transferring Camps Leatherneck and Bastion to Afghan control. As national anthems from the three countries...
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2nd Marine Division (category Divisions of the United States Marine Corps)
June 1945). Elements of the division were part of the occupation of Nagasaki, arriving twenty-five days after the nuclear strike. The 2nd and 8th Marines...
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