No, they did not participate in surface or ground combat. Being attacked by scud missles did not count.
Yes, they did.
Yes, they did!!
I don't know if the entire battalion received the Combat Action Ribbon but I do know that H Co (redesignated L Co) did receive the CAR. Most members of the battalion also received their Combat Action Ribbon during Operation Iraqi Freedom I. They battalion has since returned to Iraq in September/October of 2007. All but a handful (those few who remained behind at Camp 15) of Marines in 3/23 received the Combat Action Ribbon for Desert Storm. Most members of the battalion also received their Combat Action Ribbon during Operation Iraqi Freedom I. They battalion has since returned to Iraq in September/October of 2007.
The Combat Action Ribbon is a personel award, not a unit award. A marine or sailor with the btln may have received it, but it's not given out to a entire btln.
13,095 U.S Marines were wounded in action during the Vietnam War.
I owned a .357 Desert Eagle and it was double action.
There were 2 regiments of Royal Marine Commandos at D-Day. I believe that all U.S. Marines were in action in the Pacific at the time.
No such thing. Could you be thinking of the Desert Eagle chambered in .50 Action Express?
No, the word 'receive' is not a noun at all.The word 'receive' is a verb, a word for an action (an action verb).The noun forms of the verb to receive are:receiver, a word for a person;receipt, a word for a thing;reception, a word for a thing;receiving (a gerund), a word for an act, a word for a thing.
He was one of the 6 marines that are photographed raising the flag at Iwo Jima, and John along with 2 other of the marines were killed in action.
I can't understand what you just said
knowledge of location of targets............................
It doesn't