DefenseLINK News: 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit Ends Ops in Iraq

31st Heads "Home"

Via DefenseLINK, I see that the 31st MEU has formally turned over its part of Al-Anbar to RCT 7, 1MARDIV. They are on their way...

...back to Okinawa. The insurgents there are less deadly, but it is within easy range of those NoDong missiles the DPRK promises to use to produce a "sea of fire."

We've become used to seeing Marines and soldiers at the airport, on their way here or there, usually Iraq. Probably most of you have taken time to shake hands, talk to the lads, and congratulate them on work well done, or wish them well in coming days.

But there are others you won't see, because they don't get to come home. They go on to stand another watch, elsewhere, at the corners of the world.