Almost 300 Marines and sailors returned to Camp Pendleton on Sunday after a six-month deployment to the Middle East where they had been deployed as part of a rapid-reaction force.
Look through the post 9/11 archives of our staff photojournalists and read the stories behind each sliver of history. After an initial, chaotic surge of desperate Afghans flooded the airport’s tarmac, U.S. troops were able to secure the airport and began the painstaking process of screening people for evacuation.
Of the roughly 1,000 Marines and sailors who deployed, just over half have returned, including Golf Company, whose Marines and sailors were killed in the explosion. No Marines from the unit were made available for interviews, although some did talk to reporters. Marine public affairs personnel would not allow reporters present to leave a cordoned-off area to talk to Marines and their families, although some did.
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