page_title: Second Battle of Fallujah
section_title: American forces
hierarchical_section_title: Second Battle of Fallujah / Order of battle / American forces
caption_attribution_description: English: U.S. Army soldiers use a wall and a pillar as a shield while they tactically enter and clear a building in Fallujah, Iraq, during Operation al Fajr (New Dawn) on Nov. 9, 2004. The soldiers are assigned to 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division.
context_page_description: The Second Battle of Fallujah—code-named Operation Al-Fajr and Operation Phantom Fury—was a joint American, Iraqi government, and British offensive in November and December 2004, considered the highest point of conflict in Fallujah during the Iraq War. It was led by the U.S. Army and U.S. Marines against the Iraqi insurgents in the city of Fallujah and was authorized by the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Interim Government. The U.S. military called it "some of the heaviest urban combat U.S. Marines and Soldiers have been involved in since the Battle of Huế City in Vietnam in 1968."
  This operation was the second major operation in Fallujah. Earlier, in April 2004, coalition forces fought the First Battle of Fallujah in order to capture or kill insurgent elements considered responsible for the deaths of a Blackwater Security team. When coalition forces fought into the center of the city, the Iraqi government requested that the city's control be transferred to an Iraqi-run local security force, which then began stockpiling weapons and building complex defenses across the city through mid-2004.
context_section_description: Regimental Combat Team 1 (RCT-1) built around the 1st Marine Regiment:
  3rd Battalion 1st Marines (Infantry)
  3rd Battalion 5th Marines (Infantry)
  2D Platoon, Alpha Company, 2D Combat Engineer Battalion
  3rd Platoon, Company E, 3rd Assault Amphibian Battalion Armored
  2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry (U.S. Army Infantry)
  1st Platoon, Company C, 3–153rd Infantry, 39th Brigade Combat Team
  Companies C and D, 2nd Assault Amphibian Battalion (Armored)
  1st, 2nd and 3rd Platoon, Company A, 3rd Assault Amphibian Battalion Armored
  3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion (Mechanized) (Armored)
  1st Battalion 9th Infantry Regiment (Manchu) 1st and 2nd Platoon, C.Co, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division(U.S. Army)
  Military Police/EOD Platoon [MWSS 373]
  Combat Service Support Company 113, Combat Service Support Battalion 1
  Combat Service Support Company 122, Heavy Equipment/Ordnance Platoon, 1st Maintenance Battalion
  Counter Battery Radar Platoon, 14th Marine Regiment (Artillery)
  4th Battalion 14th Marines— Mike Battery Palehorse (Provisional Infantry, Scout and Targeting Forward Observation Sections, and Primary Direct Support Artillery)
  Company C, 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, (U.S. Army)
  2nd Platoon, Company B, 2nd Battalion, 162nd Infantry (U.S. Army)
  2nd Tank Battalion – Co C
  1st Force Reconnaissance Company
  1st Reconnaissance Battalion
  TOW Platoon (-), 23rd Marines
  Scout Platoon, Headquarters & Service Company, 4th Tank Battalion
  Scout Platoon, 2nd Tank Battalion (Attached to HQ Btry. 2nd Battalion, 10th Marines Battalion 10th Marines)
  Company A, MP Battalion, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, 2nd Marine Division
  Company B, (reinforced), 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion, 2nd Marine Division
  Military Police Company A, 4th Marine Logistics Group, 4th Marine Division
  Detachment 4, 4th Civil Affairs Group
  Combat Logistics Company 115, Combat Logistics Battalion 1, 1st Marine Logistics Group
  Bravo Surgical Company, 1st Medical Battalion, 1st Force Service Support Group
  Shock Trauma Platoon, 1st Marine Logistics Group
  Company B, 1st Battalion, 4th Marines
  Company B, 1st Battalion, 23rd Marines
  Evac Platoon, Company C, 181 SPT Battalion, 81 HBCT
  2nd Battalion 11th Marines, Kilo 3/12, Golf, HQ Btry (Artillery- Serving as Provisionary Rifle Companies)
  Charlie Btry. 1st Battalion 10th Marines (Artillery- Serving as Provisional Infantry Company, attached to 2nd Battalion, 10th Marines, w/direct support by 2 teams from STA Platoon, HQ Btry. 2nd Battalion 10th Marines)
  Lima Battery, 3rd Battalion, 10th Marines Battalion, 10th Marines (Artillery- Serving as Provisional Infantry Company, attached to 2nd Battalion, 10th Marines w/direct support from 2 teams of STA Platoon, HQ Btry. 2/10)
  4th Battalion 14th Marines, Kilo Btry (Artillery- Serving as Provisional Infantry Company, Attached to 2nd Battalion, 10th Marines, 2 Mar Div.)
  Motor Transport Platoon (HQ Btry. 2nd Battalion 10th Marines)
  Task Force ECHO (NMCB (Naval Mobile Construction Battalion) FOUR, NMCB TWO THREE, and Company A, 120th Engineer Battalion Oklahoma National Guard)
  223rd Transportation company (U.S. Army, Edgemont, Pennsylvania)
  428th Transportation Company (U.S. Army Reserve, Jefferson City, Missouri)
  Marine Aircraft Group 39 – HMLA-367, HMLA-169 DET A, HMM-161, HMM-364 and HMM-268 at Al Taqaddum Airbase
  VMFA(AW)-242, VMA-542, HMM-365 at Al Asad Air Base
  H&S and C Cos. 4th Combat Engineer Battalion
  Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 4 (Seabees)
  Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 23 (Seabees)
  Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 133 (Seabees)
  3rd Squad, 3rd Platoon, A Co, 44th Engineer Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 2nd Inf Div
  3rd Platoon, A Co, 2/72 Tank Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division (U.S. Army)
  B Company, 9th Psychological Operations Battalion, Airborne (U.S. Army)
  Regimental Combat Team 7 (RCT-7) built around the 7th Marine Regiment:
  1st Battalion 3rd Marines (Infantry)
  Tactical PSYOP Team 1171 (USAR), attached to 1/3 Marines, 1 Nov – 15 December 2004
  3rd Battalion 7th Marines (Infantry)
  1st Battalion 8th Marines (Infantry)
  Task Force 2-2
  2nd Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regimen
caption: U.S. Army soldiers use a wall and a pillar as a shield while they tactically enter and clear a building in Fallujah in November 2004.
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