PHOTOS: Soldiers return from Middle East

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Jeff Gritchen
on July 18, 2009 9:29 PM | | Comments (0) |

2090718-PN19-ARMY15-JG.jpgDakota Warren laughs after putting at hat on her father, Staff Sgt. Robert Warren, at Long Beach Airport. More than 270 National Guard soldiers of the 1498th Transportation Company arrived at the airport after a 12-month tour in Kuwait and Iraq. See more photos>>

During their deployment, the soldiers conducted logistical missions transporting materials throughout Iraq. Utilizing the Heavy Equipment Transporter (HET), the largest truck in the Army inventory, members of the 1498th transported various equipment and supplies, including essential provisions, equipment and inoperable materials and tanks hit by improvised explosive devices (IEDs).

The 1498th Transportation Company provided HET support throughout
the Iraq and Kuwait Theater of Operations completing 123 combat logistics patrols, 24 transportation missions within Kuwait and 35 lead HET missions, hauling more than 180,000 tons and traveling more than 1.9 million miles.

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This blog is a journal of Long Beach, California, through the lens of Jeff Gritchen. It will be updated frequently with the pictures, photo tips and musings from the various assignments he covers as a staff photographer for the Press-Telegram.

Gritchen has been documenting the diverse city of Long Beach since 1998. He covers everything from the Cambodian community to prep sports to gang ridden neighborhoods to the annual running of the Long Beach Grand Prix. He covered destruction Hurricane Katrina brought to Long Beach, Mississippi and traveled to Southeast Asia to document a rural Cambodian girl's as she traveled to the U.S. for life-altering heart surgery. He has won numerous state and national awards, including an international NPPA Best of Photojournalism award in 2003. He can be contacted at
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