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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Lance Cpl. Thomas Wendt, a heavy equipment engineer with 6th Engineer Support Battalion, Battle Creek, Mich., uses a bulldozer to spread a pile of gravel to form a base for the road. Marines with 6th ESB are building a road for the village of Newtok, Alaska. The Alaskan natives in Newtok are watching their village slowly sink into the Bering Sea.

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