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Marines

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Combat survival accredited to body armor

It isn't suggested that Marines wear personal protective equipment when leaving the protection of forward operating bases. It is required. But why? "I've seen it save lives," said Lt. Cmdr. Josh W. Vincent, a physician with Charlie Surgical Detachment, 1st Medical Battalion, Combat Logistics Regiment 15, 1st Marine Logistics Group (Forward).

Marines, sailors repair damaged roads during Exercise Balikatan '07

Bato Bato resident Nader Daud and his friends come daily to watch the progress Marines and seabees make on the repair of the main road that leads from the village to the island's largest municipality, Jolo City. Daud and many of the locals here travel the road to the city most every day to sell crafts, buy food, and trade their belongings to

Logistic Marines put life-saving skills into practice

Tearing over open ground Feb. 16 toward a crippled truck surrounded by wounded, frantic Marines, Cpl. Phillip Carter got a sense of the vast difference between learning about combat casualty care and actually applying it. Carter, a supply administration and operations clerk with Combat Logistics Battalion 4, 3rd Marine Logistics Company, was among

'Steel Rain' battalion impacts citizens of local towns

Marines mounted in machine gun-toting humvees and armed with M-16 rifles, M-9 pistols and the best laid plans travel down back roads making their way toward the innocent citizens of a quiet country settlement. The convoy slowly begins to make its way out of the deep country and into the rural constructs of the town. 2nd Lt. Kieran R. O'Neil and

Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society asks for donations

Originating in 1904 as the Navy Relief Society, the organization now known as the Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society continues to assist Marines and sailors worldwide in times of need. Despite the fact that NMCRS operates nearly 250 offices ashore and afloat at Navy and Marine Corps installations throughout the world, the mission remains the same:

Rush war order pushes Maintenance Center Albany shops

What do you do when one extra order increases your scheduled work flow for one month by more than 71 percent? You “get ‘er done!” That’s the situation Maintenance Center Albany faced when the order came in to perform armor upgrades and repaint 23 Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement’s for the Navy seabees. It had to be done on top of the

IED Roller team member Wilt Jones, his wife Jessica and their four children are interviewed by WALB-TV Channel 10 after Jones? return from Iraq Feb. 22. - IED Roller team member Wilt Jones, his wife Jessica and their four children are interviewed by WALB-TV Channel 10 after Jones? return from Iraq Feb. 22.

Maintenance Center Albany team goes to war

Working at home as a civilian supporting the war effort is one thing. But leaving home and actually going to war as part of a military/civilian team takes things to another level. That didn’t stop 15 civilian employees and four Marines at Maintenance Center Albany who volunteered to go to Iraq as a team to modify and update Improvised Explosive

Base police perfect driving practices

If you are the kind of driver who gets unnerved or frustrated when facing a bit of heavy traffic or think that driving is merely going from point A to point B, then the Emergency Vehicle Operator’s Course for Police, would practically make you apoplectic. Lt. Perry Mixon, lead EVOC instructor, Provost Marshal’s Office, and Sgt. Richard Flanigan,

Marines rescue disabled man from burning building

“If they would have acted a second slower, they all would have been fried,” said Robert Hunter, after witnessing an unparalleled act of heroism shown by two communications Marines from Marine Wing Support Squadron 371, Feb. 17 at the Adobe Casitas apartments in Yuma where he is the maintenance supervisor. Cpl. William M. Koppelman Jr., switchboard

Iraqi Police, Marines work together to restore security to Habbaniyah

Marines from Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, recently conducted their first joint security patrol with the Iraqi Police since arriving in Al Anbar late January. The historic operation marked a turning point for the future of Habbaniyah. The local populace has grown accustomed to seeing Marines and Iraqi Army soldiers patrol the

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