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AL ASAD, Iraq ? Gunnery Sgt. Ronald Morgan, a company gunnery sergeant with the Provisional Security Battalion, pins Cpl. Roman Sena, a field military policeman with security battalion and Columbus, Ohio, native, during his promotion ceremony here Aug. 1. Morgan was Sena?s senior drill instructor at boot camp in 2002 at Marine Corps Recruit, Depot Parris Island, S.C. - AL ASAD, Iraq ? Gunnery Sgt. Ronald Morgan, a company gunnery sergeant with the Provisional Security Battalion, pins Cpl. Roman Sena, a field military policeman with security battalion and Columbus, Ohio, native, during his promotion ceremony here Aug. 1. Morgan was Sena?s senior drill instructor at boot camp in 2002 at Marine Corps Recruit, Depot Parris Island, S.C.

AL ASAD, Iraq - Lieutenant Col. Jay Johnson, the Marine Wing Support Squadron 271 commanding officer, along with Lance Cpls. Lincoln Echard, a bulk fuel specialist and Christopher McCutcheon, an Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting crash crewman both with MWSS-271. The three Marines all graduated high school in Washington County, Ohio. Johnson and Echard graduated from Warren High School in 1982 and 2002 respectively while McCutcheon graduated in 2002 from Frontier High School. - AL ASAD, Iraq - Lieutenant Col. Jay Johnson, the Marine Wing Support Squadron 271 commanding officer, along with Lance Cpls. Lincoln Echard, a bulk fuel specialist and Christopher McCutcheon, an Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting crash crewman both with MWSS-271. The three Marines all graduated high school in Washington County, Ohio. Johnson and Echard graduated from Warren High School in 1982 and 2002 respectively while McCutcheon graduated in 2002 from Frontier High School.

AL ASAD, Iraq ? Lance Cpl. Nick Bredehoft, a CH-46E airframes mechanic and aerial observer assigned to Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 764, bucks a rivet on a bracket for a CH-46E Sea Knight?s clam shell door July 30. Bredehoft, a 2002 graduate of Hill Crest High School in his native Dallas, is on his second deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. - AL ASAD, Iraq ? Lance Cpl. Nick Bredehoft, a CH-46E airframes mechanic and aerial observer assigned to Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 764, bucks a rivet on a bracket for a CH-46E Sea Knight?s clam shell door July 30. Bredehoft, a 2002 graduate of Hill Crest High School in his native Dallas, is on his second deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq - Sergeant Teddy Straub pins rank insignia on Cpl. Robert E. Straub's collar during a promotion ceremony Aug. 1. The brothers, from Ontario, Calif., are deployed to different locations in Iraq and don't see each other often because of deployments in support of the Global War on Terrorism and other operational commitments. - CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq - Sergeant Teddy Straub pins rank insignia on Cpl. Robert E. Straub's collar during a promotion ceremony Aug. 1. The brothers, from Ontario, Calif., are deployed to different locations in Iraq and don't see each other often because of deployments in support of the Global War on Terrorism and other operational commitments.