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A large food and bedding cache was found and brought out into the street for proper disposal as US Marine Corps (USMC) Marines assigned to Bravo/Company, 1ST Battalion, 3rd Marines, search for insurgents in the City of Fallujah, Iraq, during Operation Phantom Fury
A large food and bedding cache found by US Marine Corps (USMC) Marines assigned to Bravo/Company, 1ST Battalion, 3rd Marines, is properly dispose of, while Marines search for insurgents in the City of Fallujah, Iraq, during Operation Phantom Fury
An unidentified US Marine Corps (USMC) Marine assigned to Bravo/Company, 1ST Battalion, 3rd Marines, prepares to properly disposal of a large food and bedding cache found while on patrol in search for insurgents in the City of Fallujah, Iraq, during Operation Phantom Fury
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Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM
Base: Fallujah
State: Al Anbar
Country: Iraq (IRQ)
Scene Camera Operator: LCPL Jeremy W. Ferguson, USMC
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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