CENTRAL IRAQ (CNN) --CNN Correspondent Martin Savidge is traveling with the 1st Battalion, 7th Marines, in central Iraq as the U.S. Marines move north toward Baghdad. Savidge discussed the ...

Col. Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller ordered elements from the 1st Battalion, 7th Marines to conduct an exploratory mission to the peninsula Point Cruz along the Matanikau River. That region of the ...