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Brits put on rugby display for MCAGCC team October 24, 2002 — Royal Marines from 40 Commando taught the Combat Center not to mess with the experts when they beat the U.S. Marines, 41-0, in a rugby match at Felix Field Oct. 16. With the support of the Marine Corps Community Services, Combat Center rugby player Mike Fitzgerald coordinated with the Royal Marines and the base team to take part in the British MORE

Royal Marines test Viking aboard MCAGCC October 11, 2002 — For the first time in its 338-year history, the British Royal Marines are getting ready to roll into battle rather than walk, float or fly. A Royal Marine Trials Team is aboard MCAGCC performing the final phase of testing on the All-Terrain Vehicle (Protective), which is set to become the first armored vehicle in the Royal Marines' inventory. The MORE

Marines, Sailors Adopt-a-Block October 11, 2002 — Marines and Sailors of the Combat Center have found another way to help the community; through the Adopt-A-Block program. All Marines and Sailors are welcome to volunteer with this program, doing odd jobs and cleaning yards of the homes helping patrons in the Twentynine Palms community. Chaplain Olushola Isinkaiye, Headquarters Battalion, MORE

Blood Bank thanks MCAGCC Marines, Sailors September 20, 2002 — Community Blood Bank affiliates hosted a luncheon and tour of the CBB's Rancho Mirage facilities and the Eisenhower Medical Center for Marine and Sailor unit representatives from the Combat Center Sept. 12. "Our Marine Corps and Navy have always been heroes whenever and wherever enemies threaten the peace of the innocent," read a caption on one of MORE

Retired Marine Works to 'Save the Soul of the East' September 19, 2002 — Sweeping changes have taken place across Eurasia over the last decade. Many former soviet states and eastern block countries are now budding young democracies, collaborating to promote security and stability. Retired Marine Corps Col. Nick Pratt is helping them. Pratt is a man of energy. Previous assignments in special operations and duties MORE

CSSG-1 platoon keeps MCAGCC rolling September 2, 2002 — Every day, Combat Center Marines rely on different forms of motor transportation to do something as small as pick up the mail, or as large as moving a battalion to a new location in a 5-ton truck, but what happens when the vehicles that are so crucial to mission accomplishment break down? That's where the Marines of Engineer/ Motor Transport MORE

Video Teleconferencing: wave of the future for dispersing information August 12, 2002 — Joint Forces Command, Joint Public Affairs Operations Group, has teamed up at Millennium Challenge 2002 in Victorville, Calif., to test a new video telecommunications conferencing system that could change the way the Marine Corps sends and receives digital media of all types.The Scotty Mobile Remote Data, named after the character "Scotty" from the MORE

Master Sergeant ready when Corps needs him July 3, 2002 — When terrorists attacked the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, few Americans were in a position to do much more than display their anger and grief in the form a car-mounted American flag or a nasty bumper sticker aimed at Osama bin Laden. Retired Master Sgt. Ronald C. Plumlee took his own anger a step further, leaving his east Texas farm for the MORE

3/7 tests Basic Urban Skills Training July 2, 2002 — The Marines of 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines returned Monday from Victorville, where they were helping the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab test the efficiency of its Basic Urban Skills Training package. The three-week package, which took place June 12-30, is a part of Project Metropolis, an initiative to teach Marines how to carry out peacekeeping, civil MORE

2/7 wives show their combat skills June 28, 2002 — 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 MORE

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