Gunnery Sgt. Lex Whitcomb, the logistics chief for Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 263, talks to his daughter Alyssa Whitcomb, 5, after returning to Marine Corps Air Station New River, , from a seven-month deployment with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit Sept. 3, 2014. The service members have been deployed since February and were part of an element whose primary mission was to provide emergency crisis response for the MEU. During the deployment, the unit supported welfare operations in Kuwait and Djibouti, as well as assisted with the rescue of refugees lost at sea. ( Marine Corps
Gunnery Sgt. Lex Whitcomb, the logistics chief for Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 263, talks to his daughter Alyssa Whitcomb, 5, after returning to Marine Corps Air Station New River, , from a seven-month deployment with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit Sept. 3, 2014. The service members have been deployed since February and were part of an element whose primary mission was to provide emergency crisis response for the MEU. During the deployment, the unit supported welfare operations in Kuwait and Djibouti, as well as assisted with the rescue of refugees lost at sea. ( Marine Corps photo by Cpl. James R. Smith/released) VMM-263 (Rein.) ADVON returns from deployment with 22nd MEU 140903-M-BZ918-080
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