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Archive: 2007

Marines with Weapons Company, Task Force 1st Battalion, 4th Marines ride in a simulated convoy of Fallujah, Iraq. The Virtual Convoy Combat Trainer, or VCCT, allows Marines to learn specific skills needed during deployment. - Marines with Weapons Company, Task Force 1st Battalion, 4th Marines ride in a simulated convoy of Fallujah, Iraq. The Virtual Convoy Combat Trainer, or VCCT, allows Marines to learn specific skills needed during deployment.

Task Force 1/4 integrates virtual reality, convoy training

The three-vehicle convoy slowly passed through the crowded streets of Fallujah, Iraq. The tension rose as the citizens milled around the vehicles carelessly. A celebratory event was taking place at a nearby mosque, adding an uneasy alertness to the Marines in the convoy knowing crowded areas hide insurgents and vehicle-borne improvised explosive

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Buffalo Jills take show on the road

With a record of seven wins and nine losses, the National Football League’s Buffalo Bills didn’t make it to the playoffs this past year. For the players, next season can’t come soon enough. But for their cheerleaders, the Buffalo Jills, there is no off-season. Eight members of the Buffalo Jills cheerleading squad recently performed in front of a

Naval Hospital Okinawa bests all DoD overseas hospitals

U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa stood out among all overseas Department of Defense hospitals in 2006, earning special recognition at the 2007 Military Health System Conference for the hospital's care of pregnant mothers and their babies. Navy Capt. Peter F. O'Connor, the USNH Okinawa commanding officer, presented his staff with the TRICARE Obstetric

Marines practice close air support

Marines with 5th Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company practiced calling in precision air strikes Feb. 26-28, training as four-man teams directing aircraft to eliminate threats in urban environments. The Marines focused on the independent collection and organization of target information using observation equipment and the surveillance capabilities of

22nd MEU puts steel on targets during fire support training

Throughout military history, superior fire support has often made the difference between who wins or loses a battle. In keeping with that tradition, Marines from the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit fired round after round of high explosive shells into the impact area aboard Camp Lejeune during a Fire Support Interoperability live-fire training

Unprecedented recruiting event yields record 60-plus recruits

In an unprecedented move by local leaders in the town of Barwanah, a village of 20,000 citizens in the Anbar Province of Iraq, the largest number of Iraqi Police recruits ever recruited from the area were processed in a recruit screening this week. In an area where virtually no Iraqi Police existed before, 60-plus volunteers were rounded up by

Explosive Ordnance Marines will blow your cache

Explosive Ordnance Disposal Marines attached to the California-based Battalion Landing Team 2nd Marines, 4th Marine Regiment have supported current operations in the Barwanah area by disposing of weapons and explosives found in caches throughout the area. To date, EOD has disposed of more than 2,000-plus pounds of weapons and explosives since

Camp Lejeune, N.C.-based Marines lend helping hand to locals in Iraq’s Al Anbar Province

In a town set on the Euphrates River, 150 miles northwest of Baghdad, two Marines stood calmly as a group of local Iraqi men surrounded them. Although Marines from the Camp Lejeune, N.C.-based 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion had posted security up and down the street in the city of roughly 30,000 people, ready for any situation, Maj.

Motor-T provides critical link for Marines in Iraq’s Al Anbar Province

Far up the beaten dirt road, the front of the ten-vehicle motor transport convoy was barely visible through the fog-like sand hanging in the air. The Marines had already been driving for about eight hours. Their route took them to three cities in the Al Anbar Province, about 150 miles northwest of Baghdad, bringing supplies to Marines separated

45th Medical Company works with Corps’ to save lives

Marines know that in a combat zone corpsmen can save their lives, but in Iraq the Navy is not the only branch saving Marines. Soldiers are also putting themselves in harms way to help others. The soldiers of the 45th Medical Company (Air Ambulance), a joint asset to 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing (Forward), provide aerial medical evacuation and

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