More Marines headed to Iraq after Rocket Attack
The rocket attack that killed Staff Sgt Louis Cardin and injured 8 other Marines is the catalyst for a new deployment of the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit to Makhmur in Iraq.
Roughly 3,700 U.S. troops are already deployed to Iraq. The Marine Corps Times reported that hundreds of Marines have already been “quietly” sent to Iraq to assist in the fight against ISIS.
26th MEU members conduct helicopter training.
Time to take out the trashAfter ISIS attacked the Nineveh Operations Center earlier in March, the new deployment was announced. The 26th MEU has been operating with 5th Fleet in the Kearsarge Amphibious Ready Group, according to the Marine Corps Times.
The actual number of Marines to be deployed to Makhmur is unknown. The 26th MEU contains about 4,000 Marines and sailors, and have been deployed since October.
ISIS has been active in the area of Makhmur, Iraq. Though the Pentagon claimed that Americans were not in “harms way” there, that analysis turned out to be incorrect.
The Marine Corps’ new deployment is headed to the area to take out the trash.
Staff Sergeant Louis Cardin, killed in ISIS rocket attack in Iraq
The death of a Marine
The name of the NCO who died in that rocket attack was released yesterday.
The Marine Corps Times wrote,
Staff Sgt. Louis F. Cardin, a 27-year-old field artilleryman with Battalion Landing Team, 2nd Battalion, 6th Marines, was killed at about 9 a.m. Saturday when Islamic State group militants launched a rocket attack on a coalition base in Makhmur. Eight other Marines were injured in the attack on the newly established base, which is roughly 60 miles outside of Mosul…
Cardin, of Temecula, California, joined the Marine Corps in June 2006 and was based at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. He deployed to Iraq once before and to Afghanistan three times.
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