* 2010 – Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border to Kuwait.

Carriers were used again in Operation Iraqi Freedom and even provided aircraft to be based ashore on occasion and have done so periodically when special capabilities are needed.

Combat operations resumed in the spring of 2003, with MPSRON TWO sortieing to the Persian Gulf for Operation Iraqi Freedom, and bombing operations began again, this time against Iraq.

The value has been proven many times, with the island providing a " fixed aircraft carrier " for the US during the Iranian revolution, the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, Operation Enduring Freedom, and Operation Iraqi Freedom.

* 2003 – Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit ( see Operation Red Dawn ).

El Salvador has been a committed member of the coalition of nations fighting against terrorism and has sent 10 rotations of troops to Iraq to support Operation Iraqi Freedom.

* Heavy Metal: a Tank Company's Battle to Baghdad, a 2005 book about Operation Iraqi Freedom

* 1991 – The United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from occupied Kuwait expires, preparing the way for the start of Operation Desert Storm.

The M16A4 rifle was standard issue for the United States Marine Corps in Operation Iraqi Freedom since 2004 ; it replaced the M16A2 in front line units.

* 2003 – In Nasiriyah, Iraq, 11 soldiers of the 507th Maintenance Company as well as 18 U. S. Marines are killed during the first major conflict of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

* 1980 – Iran – Iraq War: Operation Morvarid – Over 70 % of Iraqi Navy was destroyed by Iranian Navy in The Persian Gulf.

Also during the 1990s, President Bill Clinton maintained sanctions and ordered air strikes in the " Iraqi no-fly zones " ( Operation Desert Fox ), in the hope that Saddam would be overthrown by political enemies inside Iraq.

** The United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from occupied Kuwait expires, preparing the way for the start of Operation Desert Storm.

Since being fielded, Hellfire missiles have proven their effectiveness in combat in Operation Just Cause in Panama, Operation Desert Storm in Persian Gulf, Operation Allied Force in Yugoslavia, Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan, in Operation Iraqi Freedom, where they have been fired successfully from Apache and Super Cobra attack helicopters, Kiowa scout helicopters, and Predator unmanned combat air vehicles ( UCAVs ).

According to intelligence officials, the view of government historians that the report should become public was rebuffed by policymakers concerned that comparisons might be made to intelligence used to justify the Iraq War ( Operation Iraqi Freedom ) that commenced in 2003.

The attacks on 11 September 2001, led to the initiation of three ongoing missions: Operation Enduring Freedom ( OEF ), Operation Iraqi Freedom ( OIF ), and Operation Noble Eagle ( ONE ).

In 2002, fighting Abu Sayyaf became a mission of the American military's Operation Enduring Freedom and part of the U. S. War on Terror .< ref >

After the Taliban government was toppled during Operation Enduring Freedom, Rabbani returned to Kabul and served as a temporary President from November to December 20, 2001, when Hamid Karzai was chosen at the Bonn International Conference on Afghanistan.

For the next five years he and the Northern Alliance were busy fighting the Taliban until the 2001 US-led Operation Enduring Freedom in which the Taliban government was toppled.

Thus, a number of Allied soldiers received the Bronze Star Medal in World War II, as well as U. N. soldiers in the Korean War, Vietnamese and allied forces in the Vietnam War, and coalition forces in recent military operations such as the Gulf War, Operation Enduring Freedom and the Iraq War.

For instance during Operation Enduring Freedom the United States attacked targets of very low monetary value with cruise missiles, which led many to question the efficiency of the weapon.

Image: US forces Operation Enduring Freedom. jpg | United States Army Special Forces on horseback with the Northern Alliance of Afghanistan, which frequently used horses as military transport.

After the September 11 terrorist attacks on the U. S., carriers immediately headed to the Arabian Sea to support Operation Enduring Freedom and took up station, building to a force of three carriers.

* Since 2001: Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan

The German Navy is also engaged in operations against international terrorism such as Operation Enduring Freedom and NATO Operation Active Endeavour.

When the Taliban refused to hand over bin Laden to US authorities and to disband al-Qaeda bases in Afghanistan, Operation Enduring Freedom was launched in which teams of American and British special forces worked with commanders of the United Front ( Northern Alliance ) against the Taliban.

As part of Operation Enduring Freedom in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks, Italy contributed to the international operation in Afghanistan.

1, 000 Alpini troops were deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom ( OEF ) in February 2003.

During Operation Enduring Freedom after the September 11 attacks in the United States, the city was invaded and fell to US-backed Afghan forces.

In October 2001, the United States armed forces and British Armed Forces provided massive air support to United Front ( Northern Alliance ) ground forces during Operation Enduring Freedom.

* 1955 – Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310, 000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ends.

LeMay and SAC ’ s continuing efforts to assume greater control over nuclear strategy were vindicated on August 11, 1960, when Eisenhower approved a plan to create the Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff ( dominated by SAC ) to prepare the National Strategic Target List and the Single Integrated Operation Plan ( SIOP ) for nuclear war.

One of Sharon ’ s final operations before leaving the army in 1952 was the semi-successful Operation Bin Nun Alef into Jordan.

Britain ’ s first airborne assault took place on February 10, 1941, when ' X ' Troop, No 11 Special Air Service Battalion ( which was formed from No 2 Commando and subsequently became 1st Battalion, The Parachute Regiment ) dropped into southern Italy from converted Whitley bombers flying from Malta and demolished a span of the aqueduct near Tragino in a daring night raid named Operation Colossus.

That was followed by Blake Edwards ’ comedy Operation Petticoat ( 1959 ) with Cary Grant.

Operation Overlord was scheduled to begin in May 1944, in conjunction with the Soviet attack on Germany ’ s eastern border.

After the German and Italian occupation of Vichy France and their unsuccessful attempt to capture the interned French fleet at Toulon ( Operation Lila ), the French Armée d ’ Afrique sided with the Allies, providing a third corps ( XIX Corps ) for Anderson.

In 1968, he was caught out by the Tết Offensive due to complacency, and during the 1971 Operation Lam Sơn 719 and the communists ’ Easter Offensive, the I Corps in the north of the country was under the command of his confidant, Hoàng Xuân Lãm, whose incompetence led to heavy defeats until Thiệu finally replaced him with Ngô Quang Trưởng.

On 15 August 1944, he participated in the Allied Forces ’ landing in Provence, France, in Operation Dragoon and fought in southern France and in Germany in early 1945 before Nazi Germany was toppled.

The wing ’ s B-52s were not far behind, deploying to Andersen AFB, Guam for Operation ARC LIGHT and the bombing campaign against enemy strongholds in Vietnam.

This commenced in late February 1991 and over the course of the ‘ hundred hours ’ combat of Operation Desert Storm, these soldiers carried out their orders and executed their missions that resulted in the crushing of Saddam Hussein ’ s Republican Guards.

This milestone marked the division ’ s fourth tour in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom ( I, III, V, and VII ).

With the advent of Operation New Dawn, the focus will shift from combat operations to stability and Advise & Assist operations throughout all Iraq ’ s provinces.

Two years later, the Persian nationalisation of the petroleum of Iran was halted with Operation Ajax, a British – American coup d ’ état, which deposed P. M. Mossadeq on 19 August 1953, and reinstated the deposed, absolute monarchy of the Pahlavi family.

The combination of President Árbenz Guzmán ’ s political toleration of the Guatemalan Party of Labour ( PGT ) and other leftist politicians, prompted the CIA to prepare the contingency plan Operation PBFORTUNE in 1951, for overthrowing his liberal government, when the CIA could definitively determine that he and his regime were a Communist threat to the Western Hemisphere.

Previously, Guatemala had published White Paper accounts of the CIA ’ s Operation PBFORTUNE, and of perceived U. S. sabotage actions, at the 1954 Organization of American States convention, in Caracas, presented as the preparations for US intervention to the internal politics of Guatemala.

Ken Tout, who at the time of Operation Totalize, was a member of " C Squadron " of the 1st Northamptonshire Yeomanry, published a postwar account of the battle and of Wittmann ’ s demise.

During World War II, mission Elmira was the landing of a significant part of the 82nd Airborne Division ’ s glider train in Normandy on the evening before 6 June 1944 as part of Operation Neptune, the assault phase of Operation Overlord.

The Texas Air Guard ’ s 136th Air Refueling Wing inaugurated Operation Creek Party on 1 May 1967, because the regular Air Force did not have enough tankers available in Europe to train its fighter pilots.

In July 1992 crews and C-130s from West Virginia ’ s 167th Airlift Group inaugurated ANG involvement in Operation Provide Promise by flying food and relief supplies from Rhein-Main AB in Germany to Sarajevo, Bosnia ’ s capital, which had a population of 380, 000.

On 18 March 2003, the United States and coalition forces launched the invasion of Iraq in order to remove Saddam Hussein ’ s regime from power, the invasion being designated Operation Iraqi Freedom.