Now we’ve got artillery on the ground: The Marine killed in an ISIS rocket attack in Iraq on Saturday was at the first American firebase that had only become operational a few days earlier CNN ...

With the capacity to fire up to five 155mm rounds a minute, the M777 provides artillery units ... to use by the US Army and Marines — in Afghanistan in 2007, and Iraq in 2008.

But since the U.S. invasion of Iraq ... U.S. Marines in Haditha in 2005 and by Blackwater security personnel in Baghdad in 2007 both followed IED attacks. “The IED is the enemy’s artillery ...

Iraq, Jan. 17, 2004: Members of the U.S. Army’s Captured Enemy Ammunition Operations and contractors from EOD Technology Inc., based in Knoxville, Tenn. look over a pile of Iraqi artillery ...

Khe Sanh, in southern Vietnam, had the heaviest rocket and artillery attacks from the ... One of the single greatest battles for Marines in Iraq was held in Fallujah, the "City of Mosques ...

Impact Link The US Navy announced plans to name a new amphibious warship after 1st Lieutenant Travis Manion, a post-9/11 Marine killed in combat in Iraq. The USS Travis Manion, an amphibious ...

SHURA, Iraq — State-sanctioned Shiite militias ... Other Iraqi forces aided by U.S.-led airstrikes and heavy artillery meanwhile drove IS from the town of Shura, south of Mosul, where the ...