Marines, sailors return from a 9-month Afghanistan tour

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Marines, sailors return from a 9-month Afghanistan tour
By Cindy Fisher, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Saturday, April 12, 2008

KADENA AIR BASE, Okinawa — More than 80 Marines and sailors from units throughout the 3rd Marine Division returned Wednesday evening from a nine-month deployment to Afghanistan.

They were the last of a detachment of about 135 troops who were attached to the Regional Corps Advisory Command in Afghanistan, said Lt. Col. Don Carrier, with 4th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, who returned with the first group in March.

The advisory command is part of the Combined Security Transition Assistance Command–Afghanistan.

During their tour, the troops served as advisers to the Afghan National Army’s 201st Corps based in Kabul.

The Marines teamed with their counterparts in the Afghan army at every level — battalion, platoon and squad — and “advised them on everything,” Carrier said.


Rest of article at: http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=53984

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They should all come home.

Karab