040603-M-8096M-006. [Complete] Scene Caption: US Navy (USN) PETTY Officer Third Class Lori Butierries, a Hospital Corpsman (HM) with Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), Service Support Group 22 (SSG-22), temporarily attached to US Marine Corps (USMC) Marines assigned to Battalion Landing Team (BLT), 1ST Battalion, 6th Marines, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), Special Operations Capable (SOC), guards a group of Afghan women and children as infantrymen search their homes in the village of Khabargho, Afghanistan for arms caches and Taliban insurgents during Operation Asbury Park. During eight d


040603-M-8096M-006. [Complete] Scene Caption: US Navy (USN) PETTY Officer Third Class Lori Butierries, a Hospital Corpsman (HM) with Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), Service Support Group 22 (SSG-22), temporarily attached to US Marine Corps (USMC) Marines assigned to Battalion Landing Team (BLT), 1ST Battalion, 6th Marines, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), Special Operations Capable (SOC), guards a group of Afghan women and children as infantrymen search their homes in the village of Khabargho, Afghanistan for arms caches and Taliban insurgents during Operation Asbury Park. During eight days of intense fighting more than 80 Taliban fighters were killed while eight Marines were wounded in the most intense clashes during the MEU's deployment in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM.


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