“POSTED BY: HOPE HODGE SECK APRIL 28, 2016
The 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit is sailing home to North Carolina, but a small contingent ofMarines the MEU sent into Iraq to man an artillery base will remain there.
A 200-man artillery detachment from the MEU’s Battalion Landing Team 2/6, Echo Battery, arrived at a small artillery outpost near Makhmour in northern Iraq in March. Called Fire Base Bell, the position is the first new U.S. base to be created and manned in Iraq since American troops were sent back into the country to support the fight against Islamic State militants in 2014.
Shortly after the Marines arrived, 27-year-old Staff Sgt. Louis Cardin was killed in a rocket attack that also wounded four other troops. Since then, the outpost has weathered multiple enemy attacks…”
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