Before dawn on this day in 2003, our #Dogface Soldiers embarked on Thunder Run II. The 3rd Infantry Division (Mechanized) has traversed a total of 400 kilometers since crossing the border from Kuwait in late March (LA Times journalist David Zucchino called it "the fastest overland march in U.S. military history") and the division spent the last several days seizing key infrastructure and testing Iraqi Republican Guard defenses in the capital city- this is the Battle of Baghdad. The Dogface Soldi