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How I earned my FMF pin.(Fleet Marine Force)

By Gayton, Rod
Publication: Navy Supply Corps Newsletter
Date: Friday, September 1 2006

Four months after completing a 6 1/2 month extended around the world" deployment--USS Vinson left Bremerton, Wash., and sailed around the world to the yards in Newport News, Va.--I had an upcoming FITREP debrief in which I was expecting to learn where I broke out on the carrier among other O-4s. I found out that I would be leaving for Iraq for a six month IA [Individual Augmentee] and I would be starting my training in two weeks.

I arrived in Kuwait on Christmas Eve and then in Baghdad on New Years Eve. The two other supply officers I met during training also had the 1