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thedrifter
05-03-07, 12:38 PM
Marines extended in Iraq return to California
By John Hoellwarth - Staff writer
Posted : Thursday May 3, 2007 10:23:48 EDT

A battalion originally slated to finish its seven-month Iraq deployment in March begins returning to Twentynine Palms, Calif., today as the first of four waves arrives, according to a Corps release.

3rd Battalion, 4th Marines, will return home in groups, one each day, until the last of its 1,074 members arrives May 6, according to the release.

The battalion expected to spend a standard seven months away from home when it deployed to Iraq’s Anbar province last September but was extended for two months as part of a troop surge announced by President Bush in January.

Ellie