Word: 3rd
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When the commanders of the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division spoke to their men on the eve of war, they talked about being the fighting vanguard of a force that would be "liberating" Iraq. In the ranks, the soldiers ate it up. They envisioned scenes like the liberation of Paris, with jubilant locals welcoming them...
...Iraqi leader has relied heavily on the Fedayeen to launch hit-and-run strikes. The Fedayeen and other Iraqi irregulars have employed deceptive tactics like shooting at allied forces while waving white flags. "The enemy has gone asymmetric on us," complains Lieut. Colonel Bryan McCoy, commander of the 3rd Brigade, 7th Marines. "There's treachery. There are ambushes. It's not straight-up conventional fighting." On Saturday, U.S. Marines recovered the bodies of seven missing U.S. troops who appeared to have been executed and then dumped in shallow graves outside Nasiriyah...
...history were written now, it would record that despite enemy resistance and crippling weather, the Army's 3rd Infantry Division's push into Iraq in just a week is an advance of men and armor unmatched in speed in the annals of warfare. In addition, more than 7,000 smart bombs and missiles battered the Iraqi leadership's command and control outposts and pounded the tanks and artillery of Saddam's Republican Guard. After prolonged delay, 1,000 members of the U.S.'s 173rd Airborne Brigade parachuted into northern Iraq to open a second front. A senior U.S. official told...
...cities unsecured has proved costly, as Fedayeen and Republican Guard troops dispatched to the south waited for U.S. armor to roll by before ambushing lightly armed supply teams in the rear. The battles have left the 50,000 troops at the coalition's spearhead--members of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division and the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force--anxious, exhausted and short on water, food and fuel. In one instance, a Marine commander told his men they would be limited to one ready-made meal a day. The U.S. has set up airfields across Iraq--ever closer to Baghdad...
...weeks, the U.S.'s unusually tight restrictions on target selection may be relaxed. Notes a Pentagon official: "We won't announce it." In the chaos of the battlefield, the old rules of engagement have already been tossed out. Lieut. Colonel Wes Gillman, commander of Task Force 130 of the 3rd Infantry Division, told his men, "If you see an Iraqi in civilian clothes coming toward you--even with a stick--shoot...