This Cobra is assigned to the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable). It was deployed to Kandahar from late February up to November 2008. The attack helicopter was assigned to HMM-365 reinforced from its original unt HMLA-167. They prepared themselves for Operation Azada Woza, a fight against a Taliban stronghold in Garmsir (Afghanistan) in May 2008. 165045 was stricken from USMC inventory on 7 December 2009, it possibly returned to Bell for modifications to AH-1Z Viper.