September-October edition corrections.September-October Edition Corrections: Wrong Author, Bad Day at the Mag. For the article "Decisive Fires, Decisive Victory Meaning A Decisive victory is an indisputable military victory of a battle that determines or significantly influences the ultimate result of a conflict. It does not always coincide with the end of combat. : 1-9 FA in OIF OIF Operation Iraqi Freedom OIF Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (French: International Organization of Francophonie) OIF Office for Intellectual Freedom (American Library Association) ," Pages 29-32, the author inadvertently was listed as Lieutenant Colonel Kenneth D. Gantt, commander of 1st Battalion, 9th Field Artillery (1-9 FA), 3d Infantry Division (Mechanized mech·a·nize tr.v. mech·a·nized, mech·a·niz·ing, mech·a·niz·es 1. To equip with machinery: mechanize a factory. 2. ), during Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) instead of the correct author, Major Philip D. Rice, S3 of 1-9 FA in OIF. We apologize for any embarrassment or inconvenience to either officer because of this error. Ed Letter to the Editor--Marines Took Tikrit, Not 4th ID. First of all, I must commend you on a great issue .... the September-October issue is a great recap of FA contributions to OIF. However, the map on Page 3 does contain an error. The red lines/arrows that denote the USMC I MEF MEF Marine Expeditionary Force MEF Metro Ethernet Forum MEF Ministerio de Economía y Finanzas (Spanish) MEF Mobile Entertainment Forum MEF Middle East Forum (think tank) [Marine Expeditionary Force The largest Marine air-ground task force (MAGTF) and the Marine Corps principal warfighting organization, particularly for larger crises or contingencies. It is task-organized around a permanent command element and normally contains one or more Marine divisions, Marine aircraft wings, and ] advance through Iraq ends in Baghdad. It should reflect the movement of Task Force Tripoli Task Force Tripoli (TFT) was a United States Marine Corps air ground task force formed after the fall of Baghdad during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. They were commanded by Brigadier General John Kelly, then Assistant Division Commander of the 1st Marine Division, and its mission was (from I MEF) up to Tikrit. The 5th Battalion, 11th Marines (Artillery) with elements of 1st, 2d, and 3d LAR [Light Armored Regiment] Battalions attacked and secured Tikrit approximately seven days before the 4th ID [Infantry Division (Mechanized)] arrived to continue operations. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Thanks for your hard work, and keep pushing out the OIF lessons learned! LtCol Gerald "Jerry" L. Smith, USMC (Former Commanding Officer of 5/11) Warfighting Instructor, Command & Staff College Quantico, VA Regrets to the warfighting 11th Marines and LAR elements--we, as all Americans, want to give full credit to our OIF heroes. The author and map errors have been corrected in the online version of the September-October edition at sill-www.army.mil/famag. |
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