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NewsNovember 10, 2003

Marine returns from time on USS Iwo Jima Marine Corps Pfc. Eric A. Beard, a 2000 graduate of Kelly High School in Benton, Mo., recently returned from an eight-month deployment onboard the USS Iwo Jima, while assigned to the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, based in Camp Lejeune, N.C...

Marine returns from time on USS Iwo Jima

Marine Corps Pfc. Eric A. Beard, a 2000 graduate of Kelly High School in Benton, Mo., recently returned from an eight-month deployment onboard the USS Iwo Jima, while assigned to the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, based in Camp Lejeune, N.C.

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The deployment with the USS Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group included training and operations in Iraq and Liberia.

-- From staff reports

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