Waterloo-based Marine unit to head back home to Iowa
DES MOINES, Iowa About one-hundred-and-ten Marines from a Waterloo-based unit are returning home after spending six months in a dangerous region of Iraq.
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The Marines, part of C Battery, 1st Battalion, 14th Marine Regiment of Waterloo, have been at five locations in Iraq's Al Anbar Province since October. They provided security at U-S military camps and detention centers for Iraqi prisoners.
First Sergeant James Kirkland says the unit is expected to fly into March Air Force Base on the West Coast.
The Marines are expected to arrive sometime next Monday and Tuesday.
Kirkland says the unit is tentatively scheduled to return to arrive at the Waterloo airport on April 12th.
The units return will leave about 13-hundred members of the Iowa National Guard and Army Reserve in Iowa on active duty in Iraq and countries.