3rd Battalion, 69th Armor Regiment (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The 3rd Battalion, 69th Armor Regiment (3-69 AR) is a United States Army combined arms battalion based at Fort Stewart, Georgia. 3-69 AR was the first conventional US unit to enter Iraq in 2003, and among the first units to serve four tours in Iraq. Throughout Operation Iraqi Freedom 3-69 AR was featured several times on CNN, ABC News, and the PBS documentary Back to the Front detailing the deployment of Sgt Michael Murphy. The unit was first made famous for taking the Baghdad International Airport in 2003. 3rd Battalion, 69th Armor Regiment, was originally constituted on 15 July 1940 in the Regular Army as Company C, 69th Armored Regiment, an element of the 1st Armored Division. It activated on 31 July 1940 at Fort Knox, KY, and inactivated there on 10 January 1942.