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Archive: November, 2004

Friends remember fallen crewman

Fellow leathernecks and friends gathered here Oct. 21 to honor the life of Lance Cpl. Brian K. Schramm, who was killed a week earlier during a mortar attack in south-central Iraq. At a memorial service, the Marines of Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, remembered the 22-year-old native of Rochester, N.Y., for his can-do

CAAT Comes Through

Marines of Combined Anti-Armor Team One sat ready in their vehicles as the quick-reaction force for Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 2nd Marines, when they received word Oct. 27 that fellow Marines were under attack. The 1st Platoon of the battalion's Alpha Company had been patrolling when they began taking rocket-propelled grenades and