May 06

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The following are events related to the Global War On Terrorism (GWOT) that took place on this day.

2004

  • Four Marines with 3d Battalion, 5th Marines, were presented awards by the Commandant of the Marine Corps, General Michael Hagee at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, California, for their actions during OIF. Capt Brian R. Chontosh and PFC Joseph B. Perez received the Navy Cross and Cpls Armand E. McCormick and Robert P. Kerman received Silver Stars.

2005

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2007

2008

  • Marines of Task Force National Capital Region began returning home to Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, after spending six months deployed to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. The specially created task force handled security details while in Iraq but was predominately made up of Marines not normally assigned infantry duties.
  • A Camp Pendleton Marine who was sentenced to 15 years in prison on 3 August 2007 for killing an Iraqi man in April 2006 in Hamandiya, Iraq, had his sentence reduced by four years. Then-Sgt Lawrence G. Hutchins III, was convicted of numerous charges in connection with the case, the most serious being unpremeditated murder.

 

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