Welcome to the unofficial digital archive of Fox Company 2/24. The mission is simple: preserve the history of the Marines who served in this unit. Through photographs, deployment records, historical documents, and shared memories, we are building a lasting record of our unit's legacy. If you recognize a face, have a story to tell, or possess photographs or memorabilia to share, we invite you to help keep our history alive.
Photographs fade. Memories blur. Names slip from the record. This archive exists to stop that erosion to hold every image, every deployment, every brother-in-arms against the slow tide of time.
Here, a photograph is not just a picture. It is a muster report waiting to be completed. Click a face, speak a name, and that Marine takes their place in the permanent ledger. The archive is built by the unit, for the unit and for the families who deserve to find their Marine here.
Sgt. Jacob “Jake” Haugh, a Fox Company 2/24 “Mad Ghosts” Marine who served in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, passed away June 11, 2026. A Celebration of Life will be held Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 1:00 PM at American Legion Post, N120W15932 Freistadt Rd, Germantown, WI 53022, with eulogies and Military Honors beginning at 3:00 PM.
View obituary & service detailsMajGen Michael E. McWilliams requests the pleasure of your company at a promotion ceremony at which Colonel Guillermo Rosales Jr. will be promoted to the rank of Brigadier General on Saturday, July 25, 2026 at 11:00 AM. Location: Fort Sheridan “Water Tower,” 222 Leonard Wood South, Highland Park, IL 60035 (Grass Parade Field). In case of inclement weather, the ceremony moves to Headquarters, 2d Battalion, 24th Marines, 3155 C Street, Fort Sheridan, IL 60037. A reception will follow at 28 Mile Distilling Company, Highwood, IL. Attire: Uniform of the Day (military) / Business Casual (civilian). RSVP by Monday, July 20th. POC: SSgt David Phillip, 2/24 — david.phillip1.mil@usmc.mil.
RSVP — Promotion CeremonyRoderick “Rory” Joseph White, a Fox Company 2/24 Marine who served in the 2004–2005 Iraq deployment through the Triangle of Death, passed away July 16, 2026. Visitation will be held Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 8:30 AM at Brust Funeral Home, 135 S. Main St., Lombard, IL, with a prayer service at 9:30 AM. Mass follows at 10:00 AM at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 114 S. Elizabeth St., Lombard, IL, with interment at Queen of Heaven Cemetery, Hillside, IL.
View obituary & service detailsA U.S. Army feature on 2nd Battalion, 24th Marines’ 2022 annual training at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin — the Chicago-based reserve infantry battalion of roughly 1,000 Marines and Sailors under the 24th Marine Regiment and 4th Marine Division running rifle qualification and scenario drills on North Post.
Read the full articleKohler Co. paid tribute to Cpl. Brian Prening — a United States Marine and a Kohler associate who made the ultimate sacrifice in service to his country — sharing his story across its community and honoring the bond he shared with the Marines of Fox Company, 2/24.
Read the full articleKOHLER Power and Roush Fenway Racing honored Cpl. Brian Prening at the Coca-Cola 600, with driver Ryan Newman carrying the fallen Marine’s name on the windshield of the No. 6 Ford Mustang. Prening, a Plymouth, Wisconsin native and Kohler associate, was killed in Fallujah, Iraq on Nov. 12, 2004.
Read the full articleA Journal Sentinel portrait of a Marine whose story captures the spirit of the brotherhood — the kid who made his platoon laugh, and the Marine the battlefield hardened.
Read the full articleWISN reports on Matthew Rittner, a 2001 Greenfield High School graduate who enlisted in the Marine Corps in 2003, served as a fire team leader in 3rd Platoon, Fox Company during the Second Battle of Fallujah, and survived three tours and multiple IED attacks before being killed in the line of duty as a Milwaukee police officer.
Read the full articleMarines and sailors from 3rd Marine Regiment, including elements of 2nd Battalion, 24th Marines, departed Marine Corps Base Hawaii aboard USS Tortuga to begin Landing Force Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training 2010 — a multi-national maritime exercise fostering cooperation and interoperability with partner navies across Southeast Asia.
Read the full articleA somber gathering of Marines and sailors from 2nd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment paid final respects to two of their own — Cpl. Richard J. Nelson and Lance Cpl. Torrey L. Gray — in a memorial service at Lance Cpl. Torrey L. Gray Field at the Combat Center.
Read the full articleMore than 1,000 Marines and sailors from 2nd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment arrived at the Combat Center after a seven-month deployment to Al Anbar Province, Iraq, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Read the full articleU.S. Marines with Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 24th Marines assist Iraqi police in providing safety and security to the citizens of Al Fallujah at an entry control point, deployed with Regimental Combat Team 1 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Read the full articleFrom Camp Habbaniyah, Stars and Stripes embeds with 2/24 as the Chicago-based reservists take over the Fallujah–Ramadi corridor — drawing on the jobs, age, and experience they bring from civilian life to a calmer but still deadly Anbar.
Read the full articleMore than 200 U.S. service members — including elements of 2nd Battalion, 24th Marines — arrived at Camp Tahoua, Niger for Shared Accord 06, a bilateral security-cooperation exercise in which the Marines trained alongside Nigerien armed forces in basic military tactics and stability operations.
Read the full articleOn the ground in the Triangle of Death with 2/24’s strike teams as they ran nightly raids through Mahmudiyah, the nerve center of the Sunni insurgency south of Baghdad.
Read the full articleA New York Times News Service dispatch from Mahmudiya follows Strike Force 2 on a midnight raid through the Triangle of Death — the nerve center of the Sunni insurgency south of Baghdad — as 2/24 hunted the cells at the heart of the rebellion.
Read the full articleThe Independent’s Kim Sengupta reports from Mahmudiyah on the hidden war of attrition in the Triangle of Death — the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit running raids through Yusufiyah, Latifiyah, and Mahmudiyah in pursuit of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s fighters after the fall of Fallujah, with the British Black Watch holding a blocking role on the southern approaches.
Read the full articleHow the Chicago-based reservists of 2/24 earned their nickname from the insurgents they hunted — and the toll of fourteen Marines who did not come home.
Read the full articleHonoring the seven Marines of Milwaukee-based Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 24th Marines who made the ultimate sacrifice during the Iraq War — their names kept on the Battle Cross.
Read the full articleCBS News remembers Marine Col. Mark Smith — known to his men as “Super Ghoul” — for the deeply personal letters he wrote home from the battlefield, capturing the weight of command and the brotherhood of the Mad Ghosts in the Triangle of Death.
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