Marines in California return home from Middle East deployment

OCEANSIDE, Calif. — It was an affectional homecoming Sunday for 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines who returned to Camp Pendleton aft a harrowing six-month deployment successful the Middle East.

Families wasted nary clip frantically looking for their Marines with posters and banners successful hand, anxious for a lukewarm embrace.

For Bailey Gonzales, it's her 4th clip welcoming her hubby location from deployment.

She said she was anxious, but supra all, grateful to reunite with her husband.

"I mean, this is similar my 4th time... oregon his 4th time, truthful it’s similar OK, we cognize however this goes but the dynamic of this 1 is wholly different," Gonzales said.

Most of the 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines portion was deployed to Afghanistan successful April to assistance with U.S. evacuations from the state taken implicit by Taliban rule.

Ten of 13 work members killed successful the onslaught astatine the Kabul airdrome belonged to the portion and were a portion of the Golf company.

Camp Pendleton officials said the 282 work members returning Sunday weren’t a portion of the aforesaid institution but were connected tract astatine the time.

"Him being connected this deployment, successful particular, was precise nerve-racking for maine arsenic a young family, particularly for the different families," Gonzales said.

The aforesaid goes for Marine seasoned Allen Frazier, whose lad followed successful his footsteps.

"I’m conscionable excited to spot my lad again," Frazier said. "I mean, deployments are hard, and these guys had a somewhat of a hard deployment, truthful I’m conscionable excited to spot each of them."

Camp Pendleton officials said the remaining marines a portion of the institution attacked successful Kabul returned location from Afghanistan successful September.

Nia Watson astatine KGTV archetypal reported this story.