The Joint Expeditionary Forensics Facilities, or (JEFF), program provides crime scene investigation forensic science to the US military as a method to identify insurgents during counter-insurgency operations. The first battlefield forensics lab was an enterprise spearheaded by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service to support the Marine Corps in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. The lab was set up near Fallujah, Iraq, in March 2006 during Operation Iraqi Freedom. The NCIS lab began with only a latent print capability as this was perceived to be expeditionary part of CSI.