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    Operation Rapier Thrust (May 2004)

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    Elements of 1st Armored Division, including the 1st Battalion, 37th Armor Regiment were reported to have taken part in a coalition operation dubbed Rapier Thrust. The operation is believed to have taken place around Baghdad.
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