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Lejeune units leave for Iraq
Staff report
Posted : Tuesday Jan 6, 2009 21:21:14 EST
Posted : Tuesday Jan 6, 2009 21:21:14 EST
JACKSONVILLE, N.C. — Hundreds of North Carolina-based Marines are heading to Iraq’s Anbar province this week.
About 250 members of 6th Marines left Camp Lejeune on Monday and will compose the headquarters of Regimental Combat Team-6, Multi National Force-West, according to a Marine Corps press release. Personnel with 8th Marines, scheduled to deploy Tuesday, will form the headquarters of Regimental Combat Team-8.
In Iraq, RCT-6 will be headquartered at Camp Ramadi; RCT-8 will set up at Al Asad air base.
Both units will support Iraqi and civil military authorities, the Corps said.
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