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From: POW-MIA InterNetwork

Date: June 21, 2003

"Marines Who Saved POW's visit Las Vegas

(June 19)-- Three months ago, they were in Iraq saving the lives of two army pilots and five other soldiers captured and imprisoned for weeks. Now the young Marines are spending their first few days on U.S. soil in Las Vegas this weekend.

"We're just living it up, glad to be back..and partying like rock stars!"

Seargent Shane Rollins and the others are all part of the Third Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion. They call themselves the Wolf Pack.

"Basically we just travel around behind the companies that were forward and supervised and over watched everything that was going on over there," says Rollins.

The team assisted in the rescue of seven prisoners of war in April.

"There was a lot of resistance," says Rollins.

The prisoners were found in a city north of Baghdad.

"They actually had to storm into a building kick a door down and take them out and put them in a vehicle," says Rollins. "They had lost a lot of weight. They hadn't been fed real well."

Lance Corporal Christopher Scobal was the only Marine in the Battalion from Las Vegas.

"I feel like it was my job and that's all I can say it was my job," says Scobal.

There is speculation the Battalion will receive a Presidential citation, but the young Marines say the medals are not important.

"They were just ecstatic that we came in and got them and it was unbelievable to be able to see something like that," says Rollins.

The Battalion also traveled with a special task force to stop smugglers at the Saudi Arabian - Iraqi border.

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