The Mad Ghosts Return Home

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LtCol Mark Smith's Mad Ghosts (USMC Reserve 2/24th Battalion) returned home to Chicago on Saturday.  The town of Rosemont donated the Allstate Arena (most recently host to the NCAA Tournament) to ensure a proper welcome for the Marines.  Al L. sent the link to an article about the homecoming:

Families celebrate Marines’ safe return

Rosemont donates Allstate for return of "Mad Ghosts"

By Jon Davis
Daily Herald Staff Writer
Posted Sunday, April 10, 2005

Hundreds of Marines and sailors passed from military arms to their loved ones’ arms Saturday during a touching welcome-home celebration in Rosemont.

More than 400 members of the 2nd Battalion, 24th Marines marched Saturday into the Allstate Arena to the screaming cheers and “woof-woof” chants of about 4,000 wives, husbands, mothers, fathers, daughters, sons and friends.

After seven months in Iraq’s northern Babil province, the “Mad Ghosts” came home...

You can read more about LtCol Smith and his Mad Ghosts here (October 23rd), here (Dec 7th), here (Jan 17th), here (Jan 21st), here (Jan 31st), here (Feb 4th) and here (Mar 3rd).

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The Mad Ghosts Return Home

LtCol Mark Smith's Mad Ghosts (USMC Reserve 2/24th Battalion) returned home to Chicago on Saturday.  The town of Rosemont donated the Allstate Arena (most recently host to the NCAA Tournament) to ensure a proper welcome for the Marines.  Al L. sent the link to an article about the homecoming:

Families celebrate Marines’ safe return

Rosemont donates Allstate for return of "Mad Ghosts"

By Jon Davis
Daily Herald Staff Writer
Posted Sunday, April 10, 2005

Hundreds of Marines and sailors passed from military arms to their loved ones’ arms Saturday during a touching welcome-home celebration in Rosemont.

More than 400 members of the 2nd Battalion, 24th Marines marched Saturday into the Allstate Arena to the screaming cheers and “woof-woof” chants of about 4,000 wives, husbands, mothers, fathers, daughters, sons and friends.

After seven months in Iraq’s northern Babil province, the “Mad Ghosts” came home...

You can read more about LtCol Smith and his Mad Ghosts here (October 23rd), here (Dec 7th), here (Jan 17th), here (Jan 21st), here (Jan 31st), here (Feb 4th) and here (Mar 3rd).

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