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Archive: January, 2007

Leadership of 1/8 changes hands

Leadership of 1/8 changes handsSince returning from Iraq in early 2005, where they played an instrumental role in the November 2004 battle for Fallujah, the Marines and sailors of 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, have kept busy.From their sudden deployment in September 2005 to the Gulf Coast to aid Americans devastated by Hurricane Katrina to

1/8 Marine awarded Silver Star

Acting boldly in the face of adversity is something all Marines are taught. Against an enemy loath to engage Americans directly, few Marines get to test their mettle in combat and fewer still distinguish themselves so heroically that their gallantry merits special recognition. One day after President Bush awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously to