page_title: 3rd Battalion, 8th Marines
section_title: Global War on Terror
hierarchical_section_title: 3rd Battalion, 8th Marines / History / Global War on Terror
caption_attribution_description: English: From http://www.arcent.army.mil/cflcc_today/2005/april/apr26_30.asp KHARMA, Iraq (April 30, 2005) – Sgt. Brian Criss, with 3rd Battalion, Eighth Marine Regiment, India Company, 4th Platoon, fires his shotgun onto a door lock for a room to allow his fellow Marines to enter and secure the room during a cordon and knock within the neighborhood of Kharma, Iraq, April 19, 2005. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Matthew Hutchison. Additional information: Shotgun appears to be a Mossberg 590. It looks like one round has already been fired, you can see the smearing from an apparent buckshot load on the lock and door. Also note the shotgun's breech is not yet closed. 4/23/08--Added an inset showing an enlarged view of the area around the lock, showing the muzzle, the broken lock, and the smearing of lead on the lock and door from the buckshot. The image was processed with a spatially adaptive brightness/contrast enhancing algorithm.
context_page_description: 3rd Battalion 8th Marines is an infantry battalion in the United States Marine Corps based out of Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, consisting of approximately 1,100 Marines and Sailors. They fall under the command of the 8th Marine Regiment and the 2nd Marine Division.
context_section_description: Participated in Operation Enduring Freedom, Kabul, Afghanistan, December 2001 - September 2002. During this time companies from 3rd Battalion, 8th Marines guarded the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan.
  Participated in Operation Secure Tomorrow, Port au Prince, Haiti, March - June 2004.
  Participated in Operation Iraqi Freedom, Karmah, Iraq, January - August 2005.
  Participated in Operation Iraqi Freedom, Ramadi, Iraq, March - mid October 2006  
  Served as the ground combat element of the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit from February 2007 - February 2008, during which elements participated in Operation Sea Angel II in Bangladesh.
  Participated in Operation Enduring Freedom, Afghanistan October 2008 - May 2009.  In December 2008, the Marines of India Company provided security for Operation Backstop — protecting large British logistics convoy that moved equipment and supplies for Coalition combat operations in Helmand Province. Mainly Nawzad, Afghanistan.
  Served as the ground combat element of the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit from April 2010 - May 2011, during which elements were deployed into Afghanistan from January–May 2011 in the Nahri Saraj District of Helmand province.
  Elements participated in Odyssey Dawn and Unified Protector while deployed aboard 26 MEU
  Participated in Operation Enduring Freedom, Marjah, Afghanistan, April 2012 - December 2012.
caption: A Marine from 3/8 breaching a door during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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