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Hi-Desert Star
April 1, 2018
“It is important for the Marines to combat condition and train, that is why we held the hike and range qualification all together,” said Capt. Robin Hixon, Alpha Company Commander, Headquarters Battalion. “A lot of the Marines haven't had these kinds of camaraderie building events since initial training,Ãâà...
Task & Purpose
March 30, 2018
The 'Star Trek' creator has a lot to say about war and military life — and, it happens, he has a superfan in the Marines' top general. Gen. Robert Neller, the Marine Corps commandant, is a big fan of Capt. Jean-Luc Picard, the unflappable USS Enterprise skipper played by Sir Patrick Stewart in “The NextÃâà...
Boston Herald
March 30, 2018
The heartbroken mother of a missing Marine recruit who disappeared last November called her gregarious son the “mayor of Winthrop” yesterday, hours after ... Capt. Gerard R. Farao, a Marine Corps spokesman, has said Lipka began working as a Marine recruiter in Boston in 2015. He had been in militaryÃâà...
W*USA 9 (blog)
March 16, 2018
More than 7,000 miles from Arlington National Cemetery lie the bodies of sailors and marines who lost their lives in World War II during the Battle of Tarawa. Their final resting place is anything but idyllic -- surrounded by trash and pigpens, they are buried under pavement. WUSA9 Reporter Mike Valerio isÃâà...
Jackson Clarion Ledger
March 16, 2018
Those men – Cpl. Dan Baldassare (20), Staff Sgt. Robert Cox (28), Captain Dean Elliott – pilot – (30), Major Caine Goyette, Gunnery Sgt. Mark Hopkins (34), Sgt. Chad Jenson (25), Gunnery Sgt. Brendan Johnson (46), Sgt. Julian Kevianne (31), Staff Sgt. William Joseph Kundrat (33), Sgt. Talon Leach, Sgt.
webcenter11
March 16, 2018
Captain Joshua White; Kilo Company Commander, 3rd Battalion, 8th Marines>>: "Operating on snow shoes, operating on skis, learning how to use our cold weather gear properly and then learning how to work through the friction that the cold weather induces on some of communications and our weaponsÃâà...
Military Times
March 16, 2018
Marines and soldiers trucked and stomped through snow drifts, practicing basic patrolling and survival skills, while sailors, Coast Guardsmen and airmen planned air and ... They also tested communications and survival gear in the arctic climate, which hadn't yet been done with that gear, the captain said.
AZCentral.com
March 6, 2018
Capt. Diann Rosenfeld, communication strategy officer for the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit, said that the Marines will be in Phoenix to work specifically on a series of exercises and drills called Realistic Urban Training. This group of Marines typically trains in 29 Palms, California, and is using this visit asÃâà...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
March 3, 2018
Marine Capt. John Watkins, his wife Jayshree Watkins, and their son Kaden, 5, sit in their Oceanside home with a small urn that contains the ashes of their 11-month-old daughter Amelia, who died last June, just eight days after she was diagnosed with neuroblastoma cancer. (Hayne Palmour IV / San DiegoÃâà...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
March 1, 2018
A commissioned officer at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar is being sent to court-martial, accused of terrorizing his wife. The man is also accused of having affairs across three states, a crime in the military, where adultery is prohibited. Capt. Jameson P. Hustek, also stands accused of trying to cover up hisÃâà...
CBS News
February 28, 2018
For the Marines of Task Force Southwest, the sacrifices to get to the moment the reunion with their loved ones started almost a year ago when they arrived in Helmand Province. Capt. Tamara Watkins and Majs. Paul Rivera and Ethan Krumnow were part of the first marine unit to set foot in the region sinceÃâà...
FOX43.com
December 31, 1999
MARINE CORPS RECRUIT DEPOT PARRIS ISLAND, S.C., -- Nearly 20,000 recruits head to Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island each year. Taking part in 13 weeks of rigorous physical, mental, and military training. It may be one of the most nerve-racking bus rides of a person's life, the journey toÃâà...
USNI News
December 31, 1999
If he had his way, Capt. Ben Brewster and his rifle company would get to fight and operate under a “protective bubble.” Brewster describes it as created by layered offensive and defensive unmanned aerial systems (UAS) – both organic to the company and from the larger Marine air-ground task force – thatÃâà...
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