Approximately 88 members of the Harrier squadron that lost its commanding officer and the aviation support unit that lost one of it’s fellow Marines to an insurgent attack on their base in Afghanistan returned to friends and family in Yuma Thursday.

About 90 Marines with VMA-513 and Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 13 returned home to Yuma Tuesday (1-12-09) morning after a nearly six-month long deployment.

Marines from VMA-214 and Aviation Logistics Squadron 13 returned to Yuma from a seven-month deployment to Afghanistan.

Marines from Marine Wing Support squadron 371, returned to Yuma Saturday. The Marines had been deployed in Iraq for the last seven months.

More members of the Yuma-based Harrier squadron VMA-214 returned home to loved ones at MCAS-Yuma Friday (7-31-09) after participating in counter-piracy operations off the coast of Africa, near Somalia. Video by Stephanie Wilken and Rob Powell