1st MLG Marines return from deployment

Photo By Cpl. Khoa Pelczar | A Marine with Combat Logistics Regiment 1, 1st Marine Logistics Group, kisses his wife at a homecoming aboard Camp Pendleton, Calif., Feb. 2, after completing his deployment to Helmand province, Afghanistan, in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.  

CAMP PENDLETON, CA, UNITED STATES

02.02.2012

Story by Cpl. Khoa Pelczar 

1st Marine Logistics Group

MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. – More than 75 Marines with 7th Engineer Support Battalion and Combat Logistics Battalion 1, Combat Logistics Regiment 1, 1st Marine Logistics Group, arrived at a homecoming aboard Camp Pendleton, Calif., Feb. 2, after completing their five-month deployment to Helmand province, Afghanistan, in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

Friends and families of these devil dogs couldn’t help but start screaming as a formation of Marines approached from behind a building.

Marines blended in with each other with their camouflage uniforms, but it didn’t take long for their friends and families to spot them from the chaos of the night.

“I am very happy and excited to be home, especially to see my wife waiting here for me,” said Sgt. Fernando Horta, motor transport operator, Company A, 7th ESB, 1st MLG. “All I can think of right now is to make up for the time I’ve lost with my wife, spending time with my family and enjoy some of my wife’s homemade meals.”

Horta, 26, from West New York, N.J., was really excited to see his wife and couldn’t wait to jump in the car and go home for the “delicious meal” that his wife had prepared.

As the service members reunited with their friends and families, everyone scattered and the lot got emptier by the second. For some Marines, it was a familiar feeling and seemed like they never left. They got in their vehicles and took off with their loved ones. But for a few, they stayed back for a little longer to take in the moment that they reunited with their loved ones. It’s a moment that they’d remember for the rest of their lives.

• Date Taken: 02.02.2012
• Date Posted: 02.21.2012 11:38
• Story ID: 84107
• Location: CAMP PENDLETON, CA, US