This ad-hoc task force, composed of elements of 1st, 2nd and 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalions, as well as G/2/23 and TOW plt, 1st Tank Battalion, and commanded by the assistant Division commander, continued to attack north towards Tikrit.
Battalion | 3rd Rock from the Sun | Guiding Light | Electric Light Orchestra | reconnaissance | light rail | Edmonton Light Rail Transit | South Carolina's 3rd congressional district | light curve | battalion | Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury | Michigan's 3rd congressional district | Light-emitting diode | Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron | light novel | Charge of the Light Brigade | 3rd United States Congress | Reconnaissance | Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba | 3rd arrondissement of Marseille | William Light | light | incandescent light bulb | 1st Battalion 8th Marines | Light | Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston | Florida Power & Light | 1st Battalion 9th Marines | Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex | Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York |
As it became clear that the war was over for the Iraqis, some of their captors approached a Marine unit from the 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, Delta Co., 3rd Platoon which was a part of Task Force Tripoli that had been pushing up toward Tikrit, Saddam Hussein's hometown.