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Lance Cpl. Dustin S. Curran, a 22-year-old Marine from Charlotte, N.C., carries rations for an Iraqi man at a humanitarian assistance site in Fallujah, Iraq, Dec. 30, 2004. Curran was part of a detachment of Marines from the Camp Lejeune, N.C.-based Bravo Company, 2nd Transportation Support Battalion which was tasked to man two humanitarian assistance sites in Fallujah following the end of major combat operations. In addition to convoying thousands of tons of supplies to U.S. military forces throughout western Iraq, Bravo Co. was also tasked with a variety of other jobs during their deployment, to include handing out food, water, and blankets to returning Fallujans in December and January at the humanitarian assistance sites. More than 200 Marines from Bravo Company - a unit of military truck drivers, mechanics, and heavy equipment operators ? are returning to North Carolina this month after seven months of duty in Iraq.