Wahpeton Marines return from Operation Iraqi Freedom


Published/Last Modified on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 3:10 PM CDT

WAHPETON, N.D. -Reserve Marines assigned to Detachment Military Police

Company, Headquarters Battalion, 4th Marine Division are returning home from

a seven-month tour in Iraq on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009. The Marines will fly

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into Hector International Airport in Fargo, N.D., and will depart with their

families for 30 days of combat leave.

During their seven-month tour, the Marines were assigned to a

security mission near Tikrit, Iraq. They performed convoy security, route

reconnaissance and detention facility operations. This is the unit's second

activation and deployment within the last two years. In October 2008, the

Marines returned from a prior seven-month deployment to Iraq.

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