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Excerpt from Issues Affecting Families of Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Personnel of the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, June 2 and October 7, 2003The Marine Corps is an expeditionary force by design, so it is a built-in part Of our ethos to take care Of marines and their families during deployments. Commanders are armed with the tools they need to ensure family readiness at all times, whether it be through detailed deployment guides they use for pre-deployment and ou-de ployment, and post-deployment briefings, or their ability to alter child care services during deployments as needed. Marine Corps bases from which the largest number of troops deploy are Camp Lejeune in North Carolina and Camp Pendleton in California. The Marine Corps base in Albany here in your great State is a logistics base and largely responsible for preparing troops to deploy. Out of the approximately 625 active duty marines assigned to the base in Albany, only a handful, approximately 15 to 20, were deployed in support Of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Five of them were from Ma rine Corps community services in support Of exchange and mwr activities in country.Overall, over marines deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. Approximately active duty marines and approximately 900 reservists list Georgia as their home State.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works
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