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Camp Lejeune battalion returns from Iraq


Staff report
Posted : Wednesday May 14, 2008 13:00:42 EDT

JACKSONVILLE, N.C. — About 1,000 Marines and sailors based at Camp Lejeune, N.C., are returning from a seven-month deployment in Iraq this week.

Members of 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marines, began coming home Sunday, said a 2nd Marine Division spokesman.

Marines and sailors of 3/2 conducted counterinsurgency operations in the Al Qaim region of western Anbar province as part of Regimental Combat Teams 2 and 5.

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