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Jacksonville Daily News
March 21, 2018
Australian athlete Maj. Kelliegh Jackson cycles to the finish line during the 2018 Marine Corps Trials cycling competition at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C., March 18, 2018. The Marine Corps Trials promotes recovery and rehabilitation through adaptive sport participation and develops camaraderie amongÃâà...
USNI News
March 12, 2018
The future USS Gallagher (DDG-127) will be named in honor of Lance Cpl. Patrick Gallagher. An immigrant from Ballyhaunis in West Ireland, Gallagher joined the Marines in 1966 and shortly after shipped out to Vietnam with 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment. Early in the morning on July 18, 1966 nearÃâà...
We Are The Mighty (blog)
March 10, 2018
By choosing the already-fielded Heckler & Koch M27 as the new service rifle for Marine Corps infantry squads, the service saved up to $24 million and avoided years of delay, top leaders told a congressional committee early March 2018. In a hearing on readiness before a panel of the House ArmedÃâà...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
March 10, 2018
Lance Cpl. T. J. Strickland was set for arraignment Monday for allegedly receiving stolen property, showing disrespect to a Marine sergeant major, getting an outlawed tattoo and for gun charges, according the military court docket. He had been in pretrial confinement since Feb. 1, according to charge sheetÃâà...
Hawaii Tribune-Herald
March 7, 2018
Family, friends and the Keaukaha community are mourning the death of Kumakani Lee-Ubedei, a Marine lance corporal found dead Saturday in his barracks room in Okinawa, Japan, two days shy of his 21st birthday. “He comes from a good family, well-respected in the community,” said PatrickÃâà...
New York Times
March 2, 2018
Things got ugly for Cpl. Tyson Manker in Iraq. During a firefight in the confusion of the 2003 invasion, the 21-year-old Marine shot up a bus full of civilians. Later, during a chase, he dropped an Iraqi in a flowing white robe with a shot to the torso, only to discover afterward that he had hit a teenage girl.
KUSI
March 2, 2018
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – A 25-year-old man is being charged in the death of a 25-year-old Marine Corporal found unresponsive on the floor in his Camp Pendleton barracks on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017. The Marine Corporal was lying next to his computer chair, still wearing headphones. He appeared to haveÃâà...
Department of Defense
December 31, 1999
Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Gabriela Gonzales' hard work has resulted in her selection as the 2nd Marine Logistics Group's Marine of the Year. ... “She's much more squared away that I was as a lance corporal; she has a strong work ethic,” said Marine Corps Sgt. Sheree Barrett, a combat engineer and squadÃâà...
Times of San Diego
December 31, 1999
A former Camp Pendleton Marine corporal who allegedly admitted to murder in a diary found by investigators has now admitted to the brutal slaying in court, pleading guilty this week shortly after his trial began in the murder of a Navy veteran and Army reservist from Fallbrook. Kevin Albert Richard Coset,Ãâà...
OCRegister
December 31, 1999
A forensic examination of the corporal's computer by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service showed the Marine was last on his computer at 1:44 a.m. Jan. 28, the complaint said. An autopsy was conducted at the Naval Medical Center San Diego on Feb. 1, 2017, with the toxicology screen testing positiveÃâà...
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