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Camp Lejeune, N.C.-based Marines lend helping hand to locals in Iraq’s Al Anbar Province

In a town set on the Euphrates River, 150 miles northwest of Baghdad, two Marines stood calmly as a group of local Iraqi men surrounded them. Although Marines from the Camp Lejeune, N.C.-based 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion had posted security up and down the street in the city of roughly 30,000 people, ready for any situation, Maj.

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Lance Cpl. Corey A. Cativera kisses his infant daughter, Jessica at Camp Lejeune, N.C., Feb. 7. She and hundreds of other Marines' family members came here to for the homecoming of the 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment. Cativera, 22, is from Dubois, Pa. He is also a squad automatic weapon gunner with K Company. The Marines' arrival marked the end of a seven-month deployent in Habbaniyah, Iraq conducting combat operations under Regimental Combat Team 5. - Lance Cpl. Corey A. Cativera kisses his infant daughter, Jessica at Camp Lejeune, N.C., Feb. 7. She and hundreds of other Marines' family members came here to for the homecoming of the 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment. Cativera, 22, is from Dubois, Pa. He is also a squad automatic weapon gunner with K Company. The Marines' arrival marked the end of a seven-month deployent in Habbaniyah, Iraq conducting combat operations under Regimental Combat Team 5.

3/2 Marines return, end 7-month deployment in Iraq

Hundreds of women and children screamed with joy as the Marines of 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 5, stepped off charter buses and into to their loved ones’ embrace here, Feb. 7.The families had much to shout about. Today marked the beginning of a new life and the end of a seven-month deployment in the rural area of

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Christie Otten and Pat Ayscue, the mother and grandmother of Pfc. Enrique C. Sanchez, receive the Bronze Star Medal from Lt. Col. Matthew St. Clair, battalion commander for 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, during an award ceremony aboard Camp Lejeune. Sanchez was awarded the medal for heroic achievement while serving as a turret gunner with 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, 1 Brigade Combat Team, I Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward). - Christie Otten and Pat Ayscue, the mother and grandmother of Pfc. Enrique C. Sanchez, receive the Bronze Star Medal from Lt. Col. Matthew St. Clair, battalion commander for 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, during an award ceremony aboard Camp Lejeune. Sanchez was awarded the medal for heroic achievement while serving as a turret gunner with 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, 1 Brigade Combat Team, I Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward).

Lejeune Marine awarded Bronze Star posthumously

Private First Class Enrique C. Sanchez was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star Medal with “V” combat distinguishing device during a ceremony today aboard Camp Lejeune. Sanchez’s mother, Christie Otten, and grandmother, Pat Ayscue, accepted the award from Battalion Commander, Lt. Col. Matthew St. Clair. Sanchez, a native of Garner, N.C., was

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Marines from MAG 46 listen with rapt attention to information from various speakers about the USS Midway's engine room operations. - Marines from MAG 46 listen with rapt attention to information from various speakers about the USS Midway's engine room operations.