Small Scorpion

DATE: 27/10/2022

TIME (GMT): 18:00

MAP(S): Fallujah

TYPE: COOP

GAME: Arma 3

EVENT: Official

AUTHOR(S): JaneSRBRUS for Brothers in Arms

SLOTS: 86 / 94

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RATING: (30)

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The First Battle of Fallujah, code-named Operation Vigilant Resolve, was an operation against militants in Fallujah as well as an attempt to apprehend or kill the perpetrators of the killing of four U.S. contractors in March 2004. The chief catalyst for the operation was the highly publicized killing and mutilation of four Blackwater USA private military contractors, and the killings of five American soldiers in Habbaniyah a few days earlier. The battle polarized public opinion within Iraq.

On 31 March 2004, Iraqi insurgents in Fallujah ambushed a convoy containing four American private military contractors from Blackwater USA who were conducting delivery for food caterers ESS. 

On 1 April, Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, deputy director of U.S. military operations in Iraq, promised an overwhelming response to the Blackwater USA deaths, stating We will pacify that city.

From the beginning of the first battle for Fallujah, US forces broke into the center of the city with heavy fighting and losses. An FOB was established in the city center to be used for reinforcements and logistics. Unfortunately, a large force of insurgents organized, mobilized and launched a massive attack from the southern part of Fallujah in all directions to capture the airport and the FOB.  The insurgents managed to cut all lines for reinforcements and logistics, and the FOB and its forces were left at the mercy of the enemy.

U.S. forces immediately began a counter-attack and rescue operation called Small Scorpion.