 While operating in Al Anbar, the MEU conducted combat operations in Rutbah, Barwana, Haditha, Haqlaniyah, Ramadi and Al Asad in support of Multinational Force-West.The unit returned to San Diego on 30 May 2007.On 5 May 2008, the unit was deployed on a sea deployment to the Western Pacific & the Persian Gulf, aboard , , and .