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Corporal Jorge Salazar, a fire team leader serving with 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, is presented the Bronze Star Medal with Combat "V" for valor here, June 11, 2013. Salazar took charge of his squad after his squad leader was wounded by an improvised explosive device. He directed the fire of his squad even after his legs were severed below the knee by a subsequent IED blast. - Corporal Jorge Salazar, a fire team leader serving with 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, is presented the Bronze Star Medal with Combat "V" for valor here, June 11, 2013. Salazar took charge of his squad after his squad leader was wounded by an improvised explosive device. He directed the fire of his squad even after his legs were severed below the knee by a subsequent IED blast.

The Naval Criminal Investigative Service investigated 64 individuals including active-duty and former Marines and sailors, and confiscated one million dollars worth of contraband in connection with an organized crime ring in the Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., area as part of Operation “Perfect Storm” June 4. Among the items confiscated were enhanced small arms protective insert plates, tactical vests, M-40 gas masks, 10,000 rounds of 5.56 millimeter ammunition and night vision goggles, in addition to drugs and other contraband. - The Naval Criminal Investigative Service investigated 64 individuals including active-duty and former Marines and sailors, and confiscated one million dollars worth of contraband in connection with an organized crime ring in the Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., area as part of Operation “Perfect Storm” June 4. Among the items confiscated were enhanced small arms protective insert plates, tactical vests, M-40 gas masks, 10,000 rounds of 5.56 millimeter ammunition and night vision goggles, in addition to drugs and other contraband.

Judy Heaps, a native of Orem, Utah, runs toward buses along with her two sons Benjamin, 6, and Luke, 5, at the sight of her husband, Master Gunnery Sgt. Cody Heaps, an intelligence chief with 1st Marine Division (Forward), during a homecoming event here, Aug. 22. The Division was deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and headed Task Force Leatherneck, the ground combat element of Regional Command Southwest. - Judy Heaps, a native of Orem, Utah, runs toward buses along with her two sons Benjamin, 6, and Luke, 5, at the sight of her husband, Master Gunnery Sgt. Cody Heaps, an intelligence chief with 1st Marine Division (Forward), during a homecoming event here, Aug. 22. The Division was deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and headed Task Force Leatherneck, the ground combat element of Regional Command Southwest.