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Maj. Christian M. Rankin (right), the executive officer of 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, and the first sergeant of Alpha Company, 1st Bn. 8th Marines, 1st Sgt. Christopher L. House, unroll their battalion’s colors, at a transfer of authority ceremony aboard Camp Al Taqaddum, March 30, 2009. The colors were unrolled to symbolize the beginning of active security operations in the battalion’s new area of operations they inherited from Marine Wing Support Squadron 373. (U.S. Marine Corps photograph by Cpl. Bobbie A. Curtis)

090330-M-8605C-004.jpg Photo By: Cpl. Bobbie A. Curtis

Mar 30, 2009

Maj. Christian M. Rankin (right), the executive officer of 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, and the first sergeant of Alpha Company, 1st Bn. 8th Marines, 1st Sgt. Christopher L. House, unroll their battalion’s colors, at a transfer of authority ceremony aboard Camp Al Taqaddum, March 30, 2009. The colors were unrolled to symbolize the beginning of active security operations in the battalion’s new area of operations they inherited from Marine Wing Support Squadron 373. (U.S. Marine Corps photograph by Cpl. Bobbie A. Curtis)

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