![]() Sadly, both SGM Boivin and the Marines' commanding officer, Capt Doug Zembiec, were both killed several years after this - Boivin in a freak train-on-parade-float accident in Texas and Zembiec in Sadr City, Baghdad, while serving as a CIA Special Activities officer, which saw him also receive the Silver Star as well as his second Purple Heart, posthumously. This Global War on Terrorism paper could not have been written with- out the help of many veterans of Operation PHANTOM FURY/AL FAJR. One Marine was killed and almost all of the rest were wounded over the course of the firefight, culminating in Hollenbaugh singlehandedly defending this rooftop and in the process expending hundreds of bullets, and dozens of grenades and rockets (the latter of which the Delta operators were training the Marines to operate). The US-led effort against insurgents in the city was code-named Operation Phantom Fury, and marked the first instance of Coalition military action against a purely insurgent force, since the toppling of the Ba-athist government in 2003. Fallujah is a big concentrated city, just under 300,000 people. It is one of the last major cities before Baghdad. Willy Buhl: The importance of Fallujah is that it lies along the supply route from the Syrian-Jordanian border. Boivin received the Silver Star, and he and Briggs were also awarded the Purple Heart. The Second Battle of Fallujah started on November 7, 2004, and lasted one and a half months ending just before Christmas Eve. Operation Phantom Fury: The Second Battle of Fallujah American Veterans Center no images were found Col. ![]() (Marine's ID is unknown to me) Hollenbaugh and Briggs were both awarded the Distinguished Service Cross during this operation for helping save a platoon of Marines from an estimated 300 hardcore Islamist insurgents. "From left to right, Master Sgt Donnie Hollenbaugh, Sgt Maj Larry Boivin, and Staff Sgt Dan Briggs. Fallujah, Iraq 2004ĭSCs for the operators on the left and right, Silver Star for the one in the middle. military forces launched Operation Phantom Fury 50 miles. ![]() But the crisis, and its possible connection to weapons deployed by the United States during the war, remains woefully under-examined. Delta Force Operators and US Marine pose for photo on rooftop after a firefight. invasion of Fallujah, there are reports of an alarming rise in the rates of birth defects and cancer.
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