Keywords: US Navy 030506-N-2382W-034 Marines return to the multi-purpose amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) from Iraq.jpg en The Arabian Gulf May 6 2003 -- Marines return to the multi-purpose amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge LHD 3 from Iraq The Marines are among the very first to return to Kearsarge after 81 days ashore They will be joined by more than 1 500 other members of the Second Marine Expeditionary Brigade 2-MEB Kearsarge is deployed to the Arabian Gulf in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom the multi-national coalition effort to liberate the Iraqi people eliminate Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and end the regime of Saddam Hussein U S Navy photo by Photographer s Mate Airman Apprentice Finley Williams RELEASED 2003-05-06 030506-N-2382W-034 Navy http //www navy mil/view_image asp id 7334 U S Navy photo by Photographer s Mate Airman Apprentice Finley Williams PD-USGov-Military-Navy Aboard USS Kearsarge LHD-3 |