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Archive: June, 2002

2/7 wives show their combat skills

Marines from 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, and their families came together for Jane Wayne Day and Family Day June 21. A part of their preparing for 2/7's August deployment, Marines invited their significant others to experience some of the training their husbands go through within the unit. "It gets the spouses to come out and see what their

Patriotic toddlers welcome visit from 3/4

Marching military style with her singing classmates, one small girl's voice rises above the rest: "I may never march in the infantry, ride in the cavalry, shoot the artillery. I may never fly over the enemy, but I'm in the Lord?s army." Outgoing and spunky 3-year-old Morgan Clark sang patriotic songs as she and her Joshua Springs Preschool

Combat Center hosts new camouflage net testing

A group of experts from White Sands Missile Range, N.M.; Ft. Belvoir, Va.; BAE Systems and Radian Incorporated visited the Combat Center last week to test the new desert Ultra Lightweight Camouflage Net System. The desert ULCANS replaces the Desert Lightweight Camouflage Screen System in use since the 1970s. Its main purpose is to conceal military

Desert area firefighters have hot time training in Twentynine Palms

The Combat Center Fire Department hosted fire training for local fire departments in the Marine Palms housing development June 15. The CCFD provided the opportunity for its new firefighters, firefighters from Twentynine Palms Fire Department, San Bernardino County Fire Department, Northrop Grumman Fire Department and the Joshua Tree National Park

I MLE directs fire at MCAGCC

Putting steel on target is what the Marine Corps is all about, and few do it as effectively as one of the Corps' newest, but largely unknown, units. The Camp Pendleton-based I Marine Expeditionary Force Liaison Element spent last week aboard the Combat Center practicing its battlefield mission, which includes directing artillery, mortars, Naval

Seabees lend helping hand at reserve CAX

Naval and Marine Corps Combat Battalion 22 members are combining both fighting and building skills during their annual Reserve Combined Arms Exercise in an unprecedented, unified offensive effort with the Marine Corps here. The CAX program focuses on techniques and procedures of employing direct, indirect and air-delivered fire in consonance with

MCAGCC Marines rally against drugs

Marine Corps Community Services Drug Demand Reduction held a drug-prevention rally aboard the Combat Center last Friday. The rally, held at Victory Field, featured a climbing wall, inflatable jousting ring and obstacle course, a bungee trampoline, and a unit tug-of-war tournament sponsored by the Single Marine Program. D.J. Constance, also known

Marine bicycles across country to reenlist

After a 3300-mile bicycle ride, a 1st FSSG Marine reenlisted today in The Bronx, N.Y. GySgt. Dennis Fahey, Career Planner for Headquarters & Service Battalion Camp Pendleton, Calif., began his 38-day cross-country trek from the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco and finished at Liberty Park, N.J. with the Statue of Liberty greeting him in New

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