Feb 15
The 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines have gone to war – in Afghanistan.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/world/asia/14marja.html?hp
For the Marines of Company K, Third Battalion, Sixth Marines, the assault into the last large Taliban stronghold in Helmand Province was beginning. For almost all of them, this was to be their first taste of war. And an afternoon of small-arms combat was ahead.
The article covers them fairly. Here is their battalion website:
http://www.iimefpublic.usmc.mil/public/iimefpublic.nsf/unitSites/3bn6mar
I wish them well.