 After more than eight years in the country toppling the regime of Saddam Hussein, fighting a fierce insurgency in places like Fallujah and Ramadi, and training security forces to stand on their own, the last U.S. Marines have left Iraq. Marines with the Iraqi Training Team 3 trained more than 1,200 Iraqi Marines and conducted more than 500 combat patrols with their counterparts during their six-month deployment. Years from now, you're going to watch the news, and you're going to see the Iraq Marines that you train doing something in the traditions that you've set forth. While the team's departure from Iraq marks the end of Marine Corps involvement in Operation New Dawn, Colonel Thomas noted that Marine Expeditionary Units will conduct bilateral training with the Iraqi Marine Corps in the future. For Washington, I'm Sergeant Todd Hunter.