“About 2,200 Marines from the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, or 26th MEU will take part. Their mission is to help end the violence directed at the Libyan people.”
“President Barack Obama demanded March 18 that Muammar Gaddafi halt all military attacks against civilians and said that if the Libyan leader did not stand down the U.S. would join in military action against him. Still, Obama also said the U.S. ‘is not going to deploy ground troops into Libya.’”
