A large force of marines is at sea there, too.
They were a mixed force of marines and Army soldiers, not just marines.
General Kimmitt referred reporters to the First Marine Expeditionary Force, which assigned a 1,300-member 1,300-memberines and Iraqi security forces tofthe assault.
To keep fresh waves of demonstrators out, the Navy brought in a force of marines to take up positions on the scrub-forested perimeter and beaches of Camp Garcia.
On Monday morning, Mr. Bush held a meeting of the National Security Council to develop a plan for a multinational peacekeeping force to take over in a few months from the small force of marines who have been sent to Haiti.
I've had my own struggle: in 2001 I was part of the initial force of Marines who landed in Afghanistan, and in 2003 took part in the heavy fighting of the first wave of the invasion of Iraq.
In advance of his latest coup attempt, a sympathetic US sent a force of marines to Sicily ready to intervene, and John Kerry has promised to help Libya with "security and extremism".
A substantial force of marines -- officers declined to say how many -- are set to move into the Tikrit area within days to root out Iraqi forces in the city, which is on the west bank of the Tigris 100 miles northwest of Baghdad, and has a population of about 100,000.
Admiral Sir Jeremy Black, who has died aged 83, commanded HMS Invincible, one of the two aircraft carriers dispatched to the South Atlantic in April 1982 to provide a defensive shield around the force of marines and paratroopers tasked with recapturing the Falkland Islands in the wake of the Argentinian invasion.
His force of marines were ordered to reinforce Inchkeith, and they built a large square fort, with corner towers, on the site of the present day lighthouse.
