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Manuel, 5; Alicia, 3; and Daniel, 7, play at the Abbey Reinke Community Center at Camp Pendleton while their parents listen to a predeployment brief in the next room. The brief provided the spouses and family members with information they could possibly need in the event of an emergency or unexpected hardship while the servicemember is deployed. Approximately 500 Marines from BSSG 1, composed of approximately whose ranks include drivers, cooks, lawyers and military police among many other specialties, will be deploying in the coming weeks to Iraq's Al Anbar Province and will be part of the force that supports the nearly 25,000 Marines and Sailors slated to deploy as the I Marine Expeditionary Force's forward element.