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Article: Overview: field artillery in operation Iraqi freedom.
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- FA Journal
- Article date:
- September 1, 2003
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In an unprecedented campaign, V Corps units--the 3d Infantry Division (Mechanized) (3d ID), 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) and elements of the 82d Airborne Division (plus FA from the 41st, 212th and 214th FA Brigades)--fought their way from the Kuwaiti-Iraqi border 21 March 2003 north and seized Saddam Hussein's presidential palaces in Baghdad in just 18 days with major combat operations ending three days later. The I Marine Expeditionary Force (I MEF) with its 1st Division (including the 11th Marines) simultaneously fought north from the Kuwaiti-Iraqi border to the southeastern part of Baghdad and seized Rasheed Airbase, a military complex. Simultaneously, the I ...