A Marine officer tells her story of supporting the oil infrastructure in Iraq.
Southern Iraq (November 2002 to July 2003)
On my first tour in Iraq I was assigned to the I Marine Expeditionary Force (I MEF) Civil Affairs cell in the G-3. What started out as a straightforward civil affairs mission to ensure our military operations did not collide with the civilian functioning of Iraq took a strange turn when I MEF assumed responsibility for petroleum distribution across most of southern Iraq.
