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Marines


Operation Allies Welcome

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Fort Pickett, Va.

ABOUT 

The Department of Defense, through U.S. Northern Command, and in support of the Department of Homeland Security, is providing transportation, temporary housing, medical screening, and general support for at least 50,000 Afghan evacuees at suitable facilities, in permanent or temporary structures, as quickly as possible. This initiative provides Afghan personnel essential support at secure locations outside Afghanistan

 

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Marine Corps Reserve Maj. John Fitzsimmons (center), commanding officer of Company G, 2nd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, leads a patrol of Marines in an urban training facility aboard here July 19, 2008. Fitzsimmons deployed to Iraq’s western Al Anbar Province with his company from the fall of 2008, conducting counterinsurgency operations in and around the rural town of Akashat. In his civilian career, Fitzsimmons is a commercial real estate property manager for an international company based in New York City.

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