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Archive: April, 2005

Radio hosts visit Iraq, Kuwait for firsthand look

U.S. service members' dedication was the universal impression carried home this week by a group of radio personalities following a weeklong visit with Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines serving on the front in the global war on terror. The group -- consisting of talk-show hosts, a reporter and even a classic-rock disc jockey -- traveled to

Public private venture to start leasing early August

The new military housing privatization project, commonly known as Public-Private Venture, is scheduled to start the lease process in early August. The process will entail the military member residing in on-base housing to sign a lease agreement, very similar to a “private sector rental” lease. However, if the military member is deployed, a

Lautenberg Amendment has serious ramifications for Marines

If you call yourself a Marine and are a gun owner, the Gun Control Act of 1968 (Title 18, United States Code, Sec 922), as amended on September 30, 1996, could have serious consequences on not only your right to possess a firearm, but on your eligibility to remain in the Marine Corps. Lautenberg’s main effort makes it a felony for any individual

Highway 62 to become Blue Star Memorial Highway

What does the Twentynine Palms Highway, California Garden Clubs, a blue star and a button all have in common? Twentynine Palms Chamber of Commerce is selling those buttons to pay for a plaque for Highway 62, which was designated by California Garden Club to become a Blue Star Memorial Highway, to dedicate to the men and women of the military.

NMCRS helps parents' 'Budget for Baby'

Something new parents find out, seemingly all too late, is that babies are expensive. They require diapers, car seats, formula, strollers, cribs, blankets, medicine … the list is endless. The myriad problems quickly diminish the value of the parents’ once-mighty dollar. To help in this financial crisis, the Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society offers

In the last few hours before the sun lifted the darkness, Sgt. Chad M. Lacasse, section chief, India Battery, 3rd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, holds his infant daughter Nora just before India?s deployment to Okinawa. This will be Lacasse?s fourth deployment with India. He was deployed to Iraq when Nora was born, and will miss her first birthday, as well as her first steps. - In the last few hours before the sun lifted the darkness, Sgt. Chad M. Lacasse, section chief, India Battery, 3rd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, holds his infant daughter Nora just before India?s deployment to Okinawa. This will be Lacasse?s fourth deployment with India. He was deployed to Iraq when Nora was born, and will miss her first birthday, as well as her first steps.

3/11 India Battery off to Japan

Long before the sun came up April 29, the more than 120 Marines and Sailors of India Battery, 3rd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, geared up and left for a seven-month deployment to Okinawa.For some of the 121 Marines who deployed with India Battery and the 10 Marines who deployed ahead of the battery, this will be their first deployment. For

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HqBn shuts down MCCES; 1st Tanks blows away IPAC

Another night of volleyball spun off in the Commanding General’s Volleyball League at the East Gym April 29. One team backed out of the league April 22, changing the play schedule, but the teams are back on track and ready to play. The first match-up of the night placed 1st Tank Battalion against Headquarters Battalion, Installation Personnel

30 years after war's end, U.S., Vietnam focusing on mutual interests

Thirty years ago, the last U.S. helicopter lifted off the roof of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, South Vietnam, marking the official end of the Vietnam War. The decade-long conflict left 58,000 Americans and an estimated three million Vietnamese dead, and for the next two decades, relations between the United States and the Socialist Republic of

POW/MIA effort continues three decades after Vietnam War

The United States and Vietnam are helping heal wounds left by the war that ended 30 years ago by working together to determine the fate of missing service members in Vietnam, including 1,800 from the United States."As we mark the 30th anniversary of the end of the war, we must not forget those on both sides who made the ultimate sacrifice during

Civilian group marches through basic training

For one day at least, 54 civilian leaders became members of one of the nation's most elite corps of military men and women - the United States Marine Corps. From the moment members of the DoD-sponsored Joint Civilian Orientation Conference - JCOC 69 - arrived here early April 27, they were treated like every other raw recruit. Standing in the

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