European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 12, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 stars and stripes thursday april 12 2007 31st Meu Home after s Korea deployment stars and stripes White Beach Okinawa the 31st Marine expeditionary unit returned Here tuesday from a monthlong deployment to South Korea the marines and sailors were part of the Essex amphibious ready group made up of the uss Essex uss Tortuga and uss Juneau Forward deployed to Casebo naval base Japan training in South Korea began March 6 when air and ground ele ments of the 31st Meu arrived for routine redeployment train ing after that they participated in foal Eagle 2007 an annual bilateral joint training exercise with South korean armed forces this exercise was enormously beneficial to the 31st said col John Mayer the command ing officer according to a Marine press release we conducted an amphibious offload in a foreign country where we moved 200 Miles Inland and set up Camp sus Taining ourselves while conduct ing the most Premier combined arms training in the Pacific re Gion As a Marine air ground task the marines and sailors also conducted a combined amphibious Landing with their South Kore an counterparts on the West coast of the korean Peninsula which helped build a stronger relation ship with Mayer said besides the training exercises service members with the 31st Meu also took part in five Community relations projects that involved visits to childrens Homes hospitals and orphanages and took Liberty in the port cities of Busan and Chunhae a City famous for its Spring Cherry Blossom festival i am glad that our marines and sailors had this Opportunity to see and experience the very Best that Korea has to Mayer said i know that these experiences have left lasting impressions and i sincerely Hope the feeling is Mutual for the korean people in terms of the Impact we made Here with our projects and Friendship while they were deployed some personnel temporarily attached to the 31st Meu from stateside units were informed that their seven month training tour would be extended for another five months the marines were expected to return to their state Side Home bases in August but will now stay with the Okina abased unit until january the Extension is designed to allow other Marine units time to train for deployments to Iraq Marine corps commandant Gen James Conway has said he wants to change the deployment sched ule from a seven month rotation to allow marines 14 months off be tween deployments Adam r of the Navy assault amphibious vehicles of the 31st Marine expeditionary unit prepare to leave the Well deck of uss Juneau for their Forward deployed base Camp on Okinawa Juneau and the rest of the Essex amphibious ready group offloaded the marines at the conclusion of its Spring patrol that featured Nav Marine corps integration training and exercise foal Eagle 2007 remains of 10 world War ii airmen return to stars and stripes Camp Foster Okinawa the remains of 10 airmen reported missing since their b24 Liberator disappeared in 1944 in the South Pacific Are coming Home the department of defences ing personnel office announced tuesday that the remains uncovered at a crash site in morose province new Guinea have been identified As army air Force 2nd it Ray mond a Cooley of Leary Texas 2nd it Dudley r Ives of Ingleside Texas 2nd it George e Archer of gushing 2nd it Donald f Grady of Harrisburg tech sgt Richard r Sargent of North Girard tech sgt Steve Zayac of Cleveland staff sgt Joseph m King of Detroit staff sgt Tho Mas g Knight of Brookfield staff sgt Norman l Nell of Tarkio and staff sgt Blair w Smith of no mine a the dates and locations of funerals with full military honors for the airmen Are being set by their families their plane crashed on april As it was returning to an aerodrome at Nadzar new Guinea after bombing japanese tar gets near Hollandia the last Contact with the aircraft indicated it was altering course due to bad 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