Story by Cpl. Ned Johnson
MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. — Newborn babies, women, families, and a few dogs huddle around signs and American flags watching their own breath in the cold and waiting.
Then it happens.
“Your Marines are on their way over the hill,” came a voice across a crowded parade deck in San Mateo, and the crowd erupts with thunderous cheers.
The ‘Freedom Riders’ rode their motorcycles in first, but the crowd was more interested in the parade to follow as Marines and sailors with Fox and Golf Companies, 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, returned March 27 from a seven-month deployment to Helmand province, Afghanistan.
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