Colonel Joseph S. Whitaker, left, incoming commanding

Colonel Joseph S. Whitaker, left, incoming commanding officer of

Redeployment and Retrograde in support of Reset and Reconstitution

Operations Group, gives his remarks during a transfer of authority ceremony

for R4OG aboard Camp Leatherneck, Afghanistan, April 22, 2014. The unit is

the Marine Corps' task-organized provisional retrograde and redeployment

force. It is comprised of 342 Marines and sailors of more than 60 military

occupational specialties and sourced from 95 parent commands within all

three Marine Expeditionary Forces and the Marine Corps Forces Reserve. The

mission of R4OG is to facilitate the retrograde and redeployment of the

Marine Air Ground Task Force from Afghanistan by receiving all reusable

Marine Corps equipment and supplies that it deems excess to its mission.

(USMC Photo By: Sgt. Frances Johnson/released)

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