Marine Gets Warm Welcome Home From Iraq
Lance Corporal Michael Larin says it's good to be back home. Away from the bullets, bombs and bazooka blasts he's used to waking up to. Today, NewsChannel 3 was at Palm Springs International Airport when Larin saw his family for the first time in months. We have their reunion and some exclusive footage of the action in Iraq.
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Lance Corporal Michael Larin says it's good to be back home. Away from the bullets, bombs and bazooka blasts he's used to waking up to. Today, NewsChannel 3 was at Palm Springs International Airport when Larin saw his family for the first time in months. We have their reunion and some exclusive footage of the action in Iraq.
Call it a motivational video for Marines in Fallujah a unit on assignment in the Iraqi city captured this footage then spliced it together with music to share with other Marines.
We got to see it, thanks to this man, Lance Corporal Michael Larin on this day, the 20 year old Palm Desert resident came home.
"I'm really excited,” said Lance Cpl. Larin. “I'm really nervous right now."
His mother, Maria says "I'm very happy, happy. It's very emotional to see him to hold him I love him very much."
His brother Jose Chavez says Michael hasn't changed much in six months since being deployed to Iraq.
"He's been gone a long time and to see him after a whole year it's sentimental, you know?" said Larin’s brother Jose Chavez.
The lance corporal says the best part of being abroad is coming back to his family.
"You get homesick, you know, out there, just missing everybody, things you used to do."
But he has grown a bond with fellow Marines. When they're not dodging bullets and firing mortars, a couple of them dabble in making hip hop videos.
Larin will rejoin that team soon enough. He's only here on leave. But in the meantime, he says he wants to spend some quiet time with mom, his brother and friends.