Hug by hug, VMA-211 Marines return to Yuma
Mara Patterson gives her husband, Cpl. Zachary Patterson, a welcome-home kiss at the Yuma International Airport Friday evening after Patterson and other members of Marine Attack Squadron 211 returned home from a six-month tour in Japan assisting the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit. It was Patterson's first deployment.
Photo by Jared Dort/Yuma Sun
Hug by hug, VMA-211 Marines return to Yuma.
As Marine Corps Sgt. Joshua Burley sat on a civilian flight bringing him back home after a six-month deployment overseas, he couldn't stop thinking about the passionate embrace he would give his wife, Jessica, when he landed at Yuma International Airport.“I was waiting,” h.
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