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Caption:
With their mission to provide security to supply convoys, military
police of the 2nd Military Police Battalion roll their humvees through
a course testing their ability to react to ambushes and to shoot on the
move at a training range in the Kuwait desert Feb. 26, 2004. Insurgents
in Iraq have commonly attacked military convoys forcing the Marine
Corps to focus heavily on reacting to ambushes prior to deploying
there. The police battalion's C Company, based in Camp Lejeune, N.C.,
is attached to the 1st Force Service Support Group, whose main mission
is moving supplies to Marines in Iraq. Approximately 25,000 Marines and
sailors will be deployed to Iraq and Kuwait under the command of I
Marine Expeditionary Force in the coming weeks, with 1st FSSG making up
nearly a fifth of the troops. The Marines are scheduled to relieve Army
units west of Baghdad and to conduct security and stability operations
allowing the new Iraqi government to take root. 1st FSSG is based at
Camp Pendleton, Calif. (Photo By Lance Cpl. Samuel Bard Valliere)
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