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Combat Center sergeant major retires after 30 years

Sgt. Maj. James M. Ricker has served 30 years in the Marine Corps, passed through many installations and billets, and the end of the road is here. Ricker, The Combat Center sergeant major for the past two years, retired during a ceremony at the Combat Center’s Parade Field Wednesday. A Moorhead, Minn., native, Ricker enlisted April 20, 1976, and

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Marines with 1st Battalion, 14th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, load buses March 17 to depart the Combat Center for a seven-month deployment. - Marines with 1st Battalion, 14th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, load buses March 17 to depart the Combat Center for a seven-month deployment.

1/14 leaves Combat Center, joins War on Terror

After spending nearly three months aboard the Combat Center training for a deployment to Iraq, 1st Battalion, 14th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, began their departure over a two week period beginning March 15.First Battalion, 14th Marine Regiment, is a reserve artillery battalion based in Alameda, Calif., and is reinforced by an active duty

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The Lt. Dan Band lights up Combat Center with familiar tunes, great entertainment

Marines, Sailors and family members were on their feet and singing along to America’s most renowned music March 12 at the Combat Center’s Sunset Cinema as the Lt. Dan Band stopped by for a three-hour performance. The Lt. Dan Band, featuring Gary Sinise, an actor and musician who played the role of Lt. Dan in “Forrest Gump,” came to the Combat

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These cautionary signs are everywhere throughout the Combat Center, promoting safe and sober arrival to the base. - These cautionary signs are everywhere throughout the Combat Center, promoting safe and sober arrival to the base.

Combat Center sets new costly, broader punishments for drunk drivers

Ladies and gentlemen of the Combat Center, beware: the Provost Marshal’s Office is buckling down on traffic violators. No longer will traffic law violators aboard the base be protected by the gates. There will be a new Combat Center Order in effect Wednesday that will open communication wires between the California Department of Motor Vehicles and

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After 26 years, six months and 13 days, Col. Anthony F. Weddington concludes his honorable service, retiring from the Marine Corps. - After 26 years, six months and 13 days, Col. Anthony F. Weddington concludes his honorable service, retiring from the Marine Corps.

After 26 years of honorable service, Marine Corps retires leader

Every Marine past and present is an honored part of the Marine Corps family, responsible for handing down its values and ideals. From oldest to youngest, America knows “once a Marine, always a Marine.” It has been 26 years, six months and 13 days today since one of the Combat Center’s most distinguished leaders, Col. Anthony F. Weddington, Combat

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Doctor brings trauma experience to Naval Hospital, helps to heal Marines again

Growing up in a small Pennsylvania town nestled in the Pocono Mountains and dreaming of becoming a doctor, Joe Strauss would have never predicted he would be the lead resident physician at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., during one of the Marine Corps’ bloodiest battles in Iraq. Now a Navy lieutenant commander and an orthopedic

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Lance Cpl. Isa Hasan Alyafaee makes suggestions to his fellow Royal Bahraini Air Force students during a radar maintenance diagnostic. - Lance Cpl. Isa Hasan Alyafaee makes suggestions to his fellow Royal Bahraini Air Force students during a radar maintenance diagnostic.

Bahraini airmen prepare to graduate MCCES

A dozen international military students from the Kingdom of Bahrain are nearing the end of their courses of study at the Marine Corps Communication-Electronics school after months of instruction. Twelve enlisted airmen of the Royal Bahraini Air Force arrived at the Combat Center in October to learn the intricacies of the AN/TPS-59 long range 3-D

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Carlos Carmichael, Robert E. Bush Naval Hospital, flies through the air and arches back for a dunk in a dunk contest in the West Gym March 9. - Carlos Carmichael, Robert E. Bush Naval Hospital, flies through the air and arches back for a dunk in a dunk contest in the West Gym March 9.