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started the long process of moving the artillery battalions through the second
obstacle belt and into position to Support further division operations. The
redeployment also brought the battalions into a fluid battlefield situation.  In the
late morning as  Battery A, 1st Battalion, 11th Marines, and the battalion
command post moved to a new firing position, they came under automatic
weapons fire from a group of Jraqi vehicles positioned to the northeast of them.
The battery commander immediately ordered one gun into a hasty firing posi-
tion to engage the enemy force with direct fire. It destroyed one vehicle and
dispersed the remainder. An hour later, Sergeant Shawn Toney of Battery H,
3d Battalion, 14th Marines (a reserve unit from Richmond, Virginia, attached
to the 1st Battalion, 11th Marines), spotted two enemy multiple rocket launchers
preparing to fire on Marine positions. He thought they were tanks but his gun
commander, Sergeant Thomas Stark, IV, looked closer and confirmed that they


                                             Drawing by Sgt Charles G. Grow, USMC
Mannefiom Company F, 3d Battalion, 7tli Marines, Task Force Gnzzly, on patrol near
Al Jaher Aitfield.