deadCENTER Film Festival 2009

This is the story of Echo Company 3rd platoon of 2nd battalion 24th marines first tour of duty in Iraq. In support of operation Iraqi freedom II, the platoon was split into three elements. 1st squad became security for explosive ordinance disposal team, 2nd squad trained the 507 Iraqi Army battalion, and 3rd was security for civil affairs team.The riflemen of 3rd platoon went through a life changing experience; through the hellishness of war innocence is shattered. Mission accomplishment is the number one goal under all circumstances they endured. Boys are broken and men are made in the mist of war. This is the story of marines in Iraq's forbidden triangle of death. Join the Marines of 2/24 as they take you on a journey through one of Iraq's deadliest regions known as The Triangle Of Death. Feel what it's feels like to survive through a tour of duty during the largest combat engagement since the Vietnam war. Struggle through all the hardship of daily life in a combat environment though a country without law and order as the Marines struggle to keep order. They must survive all that is thrown at them fire fights, car and roadside bombs, snipers, the Marines are relentless. They will only expect mission accomplishment of securing The Triangle Of Death for the first Iraqi election. The Marines of 2/24 have bolted the hardships of their deployment onto the Corps ethos of unremitting toughness, they secured The Triangle of Death for a Iraq's first election.