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thedrifter
09-16-08, 09:12 AM
Silver Eagles return; Moss Creek vets will be there

BLUFFTON TODAY

More than 200 Marines and sailors will return to Beaufort today after serving seven months in Al Asad, Iraq. There to meet them will be at least five members of the Moss Creek Marines, a Bluffton-based veterans group who “adopted” one of the returning squadrons, sending its members goodies like Xboxes and beef jerky as reminders of home.

Al Calderon, Monroe Boaz (an Iwo Jima veteran), Roger Garreau, Bob Morris and Bill Mott of the Moss Creek Marines plan to be there at 2 p.m. today when their active duty comrades come home. The returning Marines belong to the Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 115 “Silver Eagles” (which the Bluff ton group adopted) and the Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 31 “Stingers,” both based at the Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort.

The Marines’ duties in Iraq included providing “close air support for troops on the ground, including con voy security and armored reconnaissance,” according to an MCAS Beaufort press release.

The Silver Eagles were the first “forward air-controller capable, single-seat F/A-18 Hornet squadron to deploy to Al Asad,” the news release said.

Ellie