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English: Soldiers assigned to the Friedburg, Germany-based 1st Battalion, 36th Infantry Regiment take a moment to honor Spc. Luis Enrique Tejeda during a memorial for him Oct. 4, 2006, at a U.S. military forward operating base in Hit, Iraq. Tejeda was one of two soldiers killed in action within a two-day period Sept. 30 and Oct. 1, 2006. Sgt. Mario Nelson was also memorialized in a similar ceremony Oct. 6, 2006. Tejeda and Nelson were both killed during combat operations in western Al Anbar Province, Iraq. Tejeda, a native of Lynwood, Calif., was killed Sept. 30, 2006, while Nelson, a native of Brooklyn, N.Y., died the following day as a result of separate combat operations. The battalion is attached to Regimental Combat Team 7, the Marine Corps command responsible for providing security to more than 30,000 square miles of Iraq�s western Al Anbar Province. Both soldiers were members of the battalion�s Alpha Company. Tejeda and Nelson were the battalion�s fourth and fifth soldiers killed in action since the unit arrived in Iraq in February. The battalion has spent the past eight months providing security in Hit, a city of 50,000 in the western Al Anbar Province, where arguably some of the fiercest fighting in Iraq takes place. The soldiers face small-arms fire and improvised explosive attacks daily. The battalion, also known as �Task Force 1-36,� was recently extended for six more weeks of duty in Iraq.