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| | Marines, Sailors Head for Philippines on Disaster-Relief Mission |
 | | This article is provided courtesy of Stars and Stripes, which got its start as a newspaper for Union troops during the Civil War, and has been published continuously since 1942 in Europe and 1945 in the Pacific. |
 | | CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — About 600 Marines and sailors with the 3rd Marine Expeditionary Brigade began leaving Tuesday to provide disaster relief to the Philippines, struggling to recover after two tropical storms and a typhoon displaced at least 168,000 people in the past week, leaving more than 1,400 dead or missing. |
 | | Also, the embassy’s Joint U.S. Military Assistance group was coordinating with the Philippine military “to assess and determine U.S. military resources that could be provided to further support the disaster assistance efforts,” an embassy news release stated. |
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