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Mar 30, 2004

Cpl. Omar Montanez, a food-service technician and Passaic, N.J., native with Battalion Landing Team 1st Bn., 2nd Marines, stares intently in the direction of Hit, Iraq, as he mans an M-240G machine gun atop a seven-ton truck during a convoy, Jan 22. Montanez and BLT 1/2 are deployed with the 22nd MEU (SOC) which is currently in Iraq's Al Anbar province conducting counterinsurgency operations with an Iraqi Army battalion under the tactical control of the 2nd Marine Division.

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