MIRAMAR: More than 150 service members from the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing returned to Miramar Marine Corps Air Station last night after completing a deployment to Iraq.

The Marines and sailors spent about seven months in the combat zone. Their air wing is the aviation combat element of the Camp Pendleton-based 1st Marine Expeditionary Force.

The air wing participated in the 2003 invasion of Iraq and has been part of ongoing operations against insurgents in Anbar province. –H.T.P.