6th ESB Marines, sailors head home
June 6, 2003 — Reservists with the Corps' second largest battalion here began their long journey home late May. The departure of the unit's advanced party May 20 marked the beginning of a redeployment that will return the reserve battalion's ten companies and roughly 1,700 Marines and sailors to twelve locations through out the United States by late June. MORE
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1st FSSG Marines Reconstitute, Repair and Regenerate gear
June 5, 2003 — Battling the sun, wind and the other elements of Kuwait, Marines from 1st Force Service Support Group, clean, load and fasten vehicles and other essentials used in the war to free the country of Iraq in order to move the gear up to northern Kuwait. Marines of Camp Bobo are retrograding all gear and accounting for all equipment, which supported the MORE
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1st FSSG honors two fallen brothers
June 3, 2003 — The Marines of Combat Service Support Battalion 12, 1st Force Service Support Group stopped their work in the Kuwaiti desert May 24 to pay respects to two of their fellow Marines lost at the conclusion of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Lance Cpls. Jakub H. Kowalik and Jose F. Gonzalez were remembered at a memorial service at Camp Tarawa, Kuwait. MORE
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