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Archive: September, 2003

Motor-T grunt shines in new section

When a convoy of Marines from Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 2nd Marines, was attacked recently in the town of Musayyib, there was one Marine who stood out during the firefight. That was Lance Cpl. Rattanaka Yun of the battalion’s motor transportation section, who was manning an M-240G machine gun mounted atop a humvee. With rounds flying