Marine Cpl. John Lockwood, 26, of Saline was seriously injured Sunday when the Humvee he was traveling in struck a roadside bomb in Fallujah, Iraq, the military has confirmed.

AL ASAD, Iraq  -- If the job requires high explosives delivered from the air with devastating force, then Marine aviators in Iraq have a sure-thing option … Place an order with the Marines who provide such ordnance.

The Marines assigned to the munitions section of Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 16, Marine Aircraft Group 16 (Reinforced), 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (Forward), are responsible for the storage, maintenance and delivery of ordnance in Iraq.

“We store, build and deliver all weapon types for fixed and rotary-wing aircraft, as well as re-supply the squadrons at Al Asad,” said Sgt. Alex C. Applegate, an aviation ordnance systems technician, and San Diego, native.

“Not only do we ship out ammunition to the squadrons here and the forward operating bases, the Marines also receive ammunition from the United States and receive damaged ammunition from the other forward operating bases in Iraq,” said Gunnery Sgt. Larry Ortiz, munitions chief, MALS-16.

AL ASAD, Iraq  -- Traveling across the barren lands of Iraq, the Marines with 3rd Squad conducted a Mounted Combat Patrol to provide humanitarian assistance to the local nationals in the Al Anbar Province of Iraq, Nov. 8.

FALLUJAH, Iraq – It was before sunrise on Thanksgiving morning and a U.S. Marine sat on a frigid concrete curb, reflecting on a holiday spent in his violent patch of western Iraq.

CAMP BAHARIA, Iraq  - Marines of 1st Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment paused to honor a man who gave his life for the cost of freedom.

CAMP BAHARIA, IRAQ  - Marines moved some of their operations into a better location of Fallujah recently.

CAMP BAHARIA, IRAQ  - Leave it to Marine engineers to throw a going-away party.