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thedrifter
05-18-07, 07:39 PM
1/6 to return to Lejeune after extended tour
Staff report
Posted : Friday May 18, 2007 15:49:09 EDT

JACKSONVILLE, N.C. — After having an extra 45 days tacked onto its Iraq deployment, 1st Battalion, 6th Marines, is coming home Saturday.

About 300 Marines and sailors with the unit will return to Camp Lejeune, N.C., according to a II Marine Expeditionary Force release. The unit deployed in September for what was originally scheduled to be a seven-month tour performing counterinsurgency operations in Anbar province.

The battalion was replaced by Twentynine Palms, Calif.-based 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines.

Ellie