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15 years later, Marines reflect on 2003 Iraq invasion

Andrew Pedry uses his experiences in Iraq during his service in the Marine Corps as a teaching tool in his history classes at Riverside Military Academy. Pedry was deployed in Iraq in 2003 during the Iraq War. - photo by Scott Rogers

04012018 IRAQ 2.jpg — Andrew Pedry uses his experiences in Iraq during his service in the Marine Corps as a teaching tool in his history classes at Riverside Military Academy. Pedry was deployed in Iraq in 2003 during the Iraq War. - photo by Scott Rogers

The morning after landing in Kuwait, Andrew Pedry felt like he was in a moonscape. The horizon was endless, the wind ferocious. Pedry was serving with the U.S. Marines in Okinawa on Sept. 11, 2001. His second deployment would be in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, which came between March 20 and May 1 that year.