A Regimental Combat Team is a group of Marines, trained to conduct hidden movements and long-range target strikes, tasked as a battalion’s quick reaction force to serve as the first Coalition forces responders to any emergency.
The most significant Marine Corps operation since the Battle of Fallujah in 2004 and the largest helicopter insertion since the Vietnam War took place July 2 as Marines spread out into the Helmand River valley to secure what was called one of the most violent provinces in all of Afghanistan at the time.
