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  • Ships back from Iraq bring 6,400 for port call in Pearl Harbor

    07/13/2003 8:17:21 AM PDT · by knighthawk · 7 replies · 335+ views
    Sailors and Marines will stop in Hawaii en route to San Diego Nearly 6,400 sailors and Marines will arrive at Pearl Harbor this morning for a brief Hawaiian port call on their way home to San Diego and Camp Pendleton from the Iraq war. The Marines belong to Regimental Combat Team 1, while the sailors are assigned to five amphibious ships -- USS Boxer, USS Bonhomme Richard, USS Cleveland, USS Dubuque and USS Pearl Harbor. They are part of the first groups of Marines that shipped out for the Iraqi war from San Diego as part of the USS Tarawa...