Table of Contents

Foreword................................................................iii
Preface..................................................................V

Call To Action...........................................................1
Joint Task Force Provide Comfort.........................................3
Express Care.............................................................5
The First Marines Arrive.................................................7
Combined Task Force Provide Comfort......................................7

Joint Task Force Alpha...................................................8
International Relief Efforts............................................12
A New Mission...........................................................13
The 24th MEU (SOC)......................................................14
The Command Element.....................................................16

BLT2/8..................................................................16
The Black Knights of HMM-264............................................17
MSSG-24.................................................................21
24th MEU Forward Command Element........................................24
24th MEU Forward........................................................26

Humanitarian Service Support
 Concept of Operations..................................................30
Incirlik Air Base.......................................................32
Combined Support Command................................................35
lISSB Silopi............................................................37
CMAGTF 1-91.............................................................40

The Mission of MSSG-24..................................................44
Planning Operation Encourage Hope Kurdistan.............................48
The Area of Operations..................................................49
Concept of Operations...................................................52
Additional Forces.......................................................52

Encourage Hope Begins...................................................54
Issues Facing the 24th MEU (SOC)........................................54
Zakho Into Iraq.........................................................59
Securing Zakho..........................................................62
Life in Zakho...........................................................66


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