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  • Navy Provisional Detainee Battalion 2 Returns From Deployment

    08/14/2007 6:44:19 PM PDT · by SandRat · 2 replies · 278+ views
    NAVY newsstand ^ | Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class David Wyscaver
    NORFOLK, Va. (NNS) -- Over 400 Sailors of Navy Provisional Detainee Battalion (NPDB) 2 returned home to Naval Station Norfolk Aug. 11, after a 16-month deployment in Iraq where they guarded 19,000 detainees at Camp Bucca. “We definitely accomplished our mission," said Cmdr. Kathryn Donovan, commanding officer NPDB-2. "It’s an ongoing mission of detainee ops down in Camp Bucca, Iraq. I thought we did a great job as a unit. We had very few MAs, but everyone performed outside of their rate successfully,” The unit was comprised of 422 Sailors from both active-duty and reserve components. They received advanced combat...