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Marines from Maintenance Platoon, Bravo Company, 2nd Transportation Support Battalion, board a bus at Camp Taqaddum, Iraq, Feb. 27, 2005. After more than seven months of duty in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the 200 plus Marines of Bravo Co. are beginning to return to their homebase at Camp Lejeune, N.C. The first of Bravo Co.?s seven platoons ? Maintenance Platoon ? left two days ago for Kuwait, where they will then connect for a flight to the United States. During their deployment, the company of military truck drivers, mechanics, and heavy equipment operators, made more than 100 supply convoys and traveled more than 464,000 miles on Iraq?s dangerous roadways to deliver everything from fuel and water to food and ammunition to U.S. military bases and outposts located in Iraq?s Al Anbar Province. They also assisted with the collection and burial of more than 460 enemy killed in action during Operation Al Fajr, passed out food, water and blankets to thousands of Fallujans returning to the city in December and January, and coordinated the movement and transportation of more than 800 Iraqi elections officials from Camp Taqaddum to various polling sites throughout Iraq in support of Iraq?s historic national elections last month.