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English: Staff Sgt. Jeffery V. Escalderon, a 36-year-old Marine platoon sergeant from 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment was awarded the Bronze Star medal July 13, 2006, for his heroic actions during combat operations in the border city of Husaybah two years ago. Escalderon, a native of Santee, Calif., battled terrorists in this once insurgent-infested city of about 30,000 when the battalion was deployed to this same region in western Al Anbar Province in November 2004. �I just told my Marines every day to keep doing what they were trained to do � take the fight to the enemy,� said Escalderon. Marines in this area launched a large-scale operation in November 2005 to rid the area of insurgents and since then have maintained control of the area from terrorists. Marines have also spent the past four months mentoring and training Iraqi soldiers to become a self-sustaining force. The Marines� progress with Iraqi Security Forces in this region has led to three new Iraqi police stations in various border cities in the last two months.