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2003 March 1	Taking the field in Iraq
Click for article... Marines from 3rd Battalion, 7th Regiment practice using their weapons while wearing gas masks Friday in Kuwait. Troops are training to fight in Iraq despite the chemical-biological threat.
Features: KUWAIT Marines, 7th Regiment, 3rd Battalion
2003 February 23	In the dark on the front lines
Click for article... In one of the large white tents that house the thousands of U.S. troops in the dust and sand just 22 miles south of Iraq, 50 Marines gathered last week for one of the dozens of U.S. journalists who periodically drop in to report on the goings on at the camp.
Features: LIVING SUPPORT AREA 7, Kuwait
2003 February 23	Operation KFC
Click for article... Here at the U.S. military base closest to the Iraqi border, Marines have received the latest advancement for warning of a biological or chemical attack: Chickens.
Features: LIVING SUPPORT AREA 7, Kuwait
2003 February 23	For this mother, war is personal
Click for article... What happened to that scrawny kid running out the door with his skateboard, never with his jacket on? He refused to listen to his mother about the jacket. How could he be on the other end of this heart-chilling phone call from San Diego, wanting her words now on his way to war?
Features: Jack shipped out for Kuwait on Feb. 2.
2003 February 16	The messiness of war
Click for article... Going through the minds of nearly all of the more than 6,000 Marines stationed in Kuwait is the almost certain prospect of combat, which from their perspective seems a breath away.
Features: LIVING SUPPORT AREA 7, Kuwait
2003 February 15	Life on the verge of war
Click for article... Life at the U.S. military base closest to the Iraqi border ricochets between boredom and tension, anxiety and tedium, hot and cold, drudgery and, in the worst of scenarios, temporary confusion.
Features: LIVING SUPPORT AREA 7, Kuwait
2003 February 12	Thousands in Marines hail from abroad
Click for article... Their names are Addo, Chan, Bermuderzoa, Morontaespnal, Yoeurth, Villegas, Rosales, Gatchalian, Tulmau, Soponmazariegas, Jaruchik and La.
Features: LIVING SUPPORT AREA 7, Kuwait
2003 February 8	Preparing for war with Iraq
Click for article... The Marine commander leading U.S. forces in Kuwait grew up in St. Louis. His troops are expected to lead the charge into Iraq, if ordered to do so.
Features: CAMP COMMANDO, Kuwait
2003 February 3	Wary troops rehearse at war's edge
Click for article... Preparations for battle are intense, with no let-up, until fighting becomes "muscle memory."
Features: LIVING SUPPORT AREA 7, KUWAIT
2003 February 3	Marines build a launching pad for war
Click for article... Troops and equipment are pouring into a staging area in the Kuwaiti desert. A Marine colonel, asked if this was where a ground assault against Iraq could begin, said, "Certainly. Why else would we be here?"
Features: CAMP COYOTE, Kuwait
2003 February 3	Chaplain seeks to prepare Marines spiritually for battle
Click for article... He cites Kurdish children gassed by Saddam as reason for "a just war"
Features: CAMP COYOTE, Kuwait

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