Article: Hieb back after time with Yuma Harrier squadron.

Byline: Jeffrey Gautreaux

Mar. 19--After 13 days in Iraq and more than 18 days away from Yuma, Ross Hieb is home -- and very glad to be here.After spending more than two weeks embedded with Yuma Harrier squadron VMA-513 as it deployed to Iraq, the retired Marine and current Yuma City Council member and real estate developer said he was not as tough as when he was in the Corps."I'm glad somebody else is doing it and not me," he said.

Hieb endured 35 hours of plane flights each way, a lot of walking around the Al Asad air base, sleeping in "cans" like the other Marines and the new experience of being a

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