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Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command and Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center

Aug 26, 2008

Staff Sgt. Verice Bennett, platoon sergeant, Company I, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, shares one last hug with his son, Sekye, at the Combat Center’s Unit Marshalling Area before leaving for duty in Iraq Aug. 26. Marines and sailors from 3/7 departed the Combat Center Aug. 26 and 27 on a seven-month deployment to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. More than 1,000 Marines and sailors left the Unit Marshalling Area in the early and mid-morning hours of both days to the waves and tears of their families and loved ones.

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