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U.S. Marine Staff Sgt. Jason Wells holds the battalion guidon during a guidon retirement ceremony on Camp Ramadi, Iraq, Nov. 2, 2008. Wells and fellow Marines are assigned to Civil Affairs Detachment 2, 2nd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment. The ceremony marks the Civil Affairs Detachment's designation back to their parent unit, Battery F, 2nd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment.

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U.S. Marine Staff Sgt. Jason Wells holds the battalion guidon during a guidon retirement ceremony on Camp Ramadi, Iraq, Nov. 2, 2008. Wells and fellow Marines are assigned to Civil Affairs Detachment 2, 2nd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment. The ceremony marks the Civil Affairs Detachment's designation back to their parent unit, Battery F, 2nd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment.

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