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A Navy landing craft air cushion hovercraft, or LCAC, lands at Onslow Beach in Camp Lejeune, N.C., carrying Marines and equipment of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, Dec. 18, 2012. About 2,300 Marines and sailors returned to the United States after being deployed for nine months as an expeditionary crisis response force with the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Michael Petersheim

A Navy landing craft air cushion hovercraft, or LCAC, lands at Onslow Beach in Camp Lejeune, N.C., carrying Marines and equipment of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, Dec. 18, 2012. About 2,300 Marines and sailors returned to the United States after being deployed for nine months as an expeditionary crisis response force with the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Michael Petersheim

A Navy landing craft air cushion hovercraft, or LCAC, lands at Onslow Beach in Camp Lejeune, N.C., carrying Marines and equipment of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, Dec. 18, 2012. About 2,300 Marines and sailors returned to the United States after being deployed for nine months as an expeditionary crisis response force with the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Michael Petersheim

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