22nd MEU starts returning home today

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22nd MEU starts returning home today
The Associated Press
Posted : Wednesday Dec 9, 2009 5:47:12 EST

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — North Carolina-based Marines are returning from a seven-month deployment that sent them to seven countries and included use of the MV-22B Osprey in Afghanistan.

About 2,200 Marines from the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit stationed at Camp Lejeune will start returning Wednesday. The unit left in May, and over the last seven months conducted training in Greece, Bulgaria, Egypt and Kuwait.

The unit was the first MEU to deploy with the MV-22B Osprey, a plane that can take off and land like a helicopter. It arrived in Afghanistan in November.


Article at: http://marinecorpstimes.com/news/2009/12/ap_marines_22nd_meu_120909/