![]() So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them. You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. On 1 February 2005, speaking ad libitum at a forum in San Diego, he said "You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil. Mattis played a key role in the April 2004 battle of Fallujah, Operation Vigilant Resolve, by negotiating with the insurgent command inside of the city, as well as playing an important part in planning the subsequent Operation Phantom Fury in November.Īfter being promoted to Lieutenant General, Mattis took Command of Marine Corps Combat Development Command. As a Major General, he commanded the 1st Marine Division during the 2003 invasion of Iraq and subsequent stability operations during the Iraq War. As the Commander of TF-58, he became the first Marine to command a Naval Task Force in combat. As a Brigadier General he Commanded 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade and Task Force 58 during Operation Enduring Freedom in southern Afghanistan. As a Colonel, he commanded 7th Marine Regiment. Promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, he commanded 1st Battalion 7th Marines one of Task Force Ripper's Assault Battalions in the Gulf War. As a Major he Commanded Recruiting Station Portland. As a Captain, he Commanded a Rifle Company and a Weapons Company in the 1st Marine Brigade. ![]() After completing Officer Candidate School he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant on 1 January 1972.Īs a Lieutenant, he served as a Rifle and Weapons Platoon Commander in the 3rd Marine Division. He graduated from Richland High School in 1968 and attended Central Washington University. Mattis was born on 8 September 1950 in Pullman, WA. Iraq War (Operation Iraqi Freedom) (2003 - 2011).Afghanistan War (Operation Enduring Freedom) (2001 - present).We just turned around and started shooting and the grenade explodes. It’s like throwing a hand with a grenade in it at us. “We could see the house crumble and then one of the Marines shouted out, ‘Take cover,’ and you could see a hand coming out like a horror movie. “After that, we put 20 pounds of C-4 and blew the house ,” he continued. We trapped one guy on the stairway and kept shooting him and two of our Marines, Marquez and Shafer, who got shot in the arm, they took Kasal out. He said there were two houses pushed together with a second-floor catwalk where the enemy was shooting at them and throwing grenades. We worked as Marines to take care of each other to not leave anybody behind.” “The 3rd platoon took a lot of injuries but the first and second squad from 2nd Platoon worked together with them to get them out. There were Marines trapped inside the house, and we were trying to figure out how the hell we’re going to get those guys out,” he said. “ Kasal went into this house to clear it, and was hit 13 or 14 times. ![]() “We blew it - that was one of the lucky days we had.”ĭuring Operation Phantom Fury in 2004, while assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines out of Camp Pendleton, California, Munoz and his team went to help his fellow Marines who were trapped inside a house near his compound. ![]() They were already set up, and you would just need somebody to click the send button and that was it. “We found one big cache and had to blow it in place, but I was a little bit scared one day because they used to use those Motorola cell phones. Munoz said he and his team would blow up houses that had big caches of weapons but they always feared being blown up by remote-controlled bombs. We were just kicking and firing, making sure everybody from left to right was still alive.” They didn’t want us there, and they were ready for us. “We were getting incoming mortars, rockets, IEDs (improvised explosive devices) so it was pretty harsh. Munoz said he and his fellow Marines took part in convoys in the Sunni Triangle in the south part of Fallujah in Iraq, during the main push. His most memorable assignment, he said, was his deployment to Iraq. He also coached the rifle and pistol shooting at the Marine Corps Coaches Course. 1, 1998, and he served seven years as a security specialist and infantryman, attaining the rank of sergeant. “He was very professional,” Munoz said of his recruiter. “When I went to the Marine recruiter, he said, ‘What you want is a job. “I was just born to be a Marine,” said Munoz, an Iraq combat vet who’d served in the Corps from 1998 to 2005. ![]()
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