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Keeping a
tradition
Thousands flood the Riverwalk Park to
celebrate the city’s twelfth annual National
Night Out.
Pg 16
Training for tragedy
Marines practice the evacuation, evaluation
and treatment of casualties during a mass
causality drill.
Pg 27
Gunrunners
take flight for Operation Iraqi Freedom
More than 250
Marines and
sailors with Marine Light/Attack Helicopter
Squadron 269 left the Station for northern
and central Iraq in support of Operation
Iraqi Freedom, Aug. 11.
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Marines help
make wish come
true |
Story By
Lance Cpl. Brandon
Dulaney
Staff Writer
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Staff Sgt. George Green,
Marine Medium Tiltrotor
Training Squadron 204
airframes chief, shows
Joseph Debacco, honorary
Marine Corps pilot, how to
wear flight equipment at the
squadron, Aug 5. Photo by
Lance Cpl. Brandon Dulaney
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I want to be a
fireman. I want to be a doctor.
I want to be a football player —
these are just a few ambitions
scrolling through the minds of
children who want to follow
people they look up to. But for
9-year-old Joseph Debacco, he
just does not want to settle for
the status-quo, he wants to be a
Marine. Better yet, he wants to
be a Marine pilot.
When I first met
Joseph, he came off just like
any other 9-year-old. But,
Joseph is not like most other
children his age. Joseph was
diagnosed with Metastatic
Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma in
stage three. It is a very rare
and often painful cancer of the
muscular and skeletal systems.
Doctors have placed his chance
of survival at 10 percent.
The day I met
Joseph, he was flying around in
the MV-22 Osprey simulator and
might I add, he was doing pretty
good. He had a smile from ear to
ear and was locked onto
everything that crossed his path
on the screen. He maneuvered his
aircraft like he had been doing
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Royal Brunei Land Force soldiers and
U.S. Marines load a simulated mudslide
victim onto a stretcher for
transportation to a field hospital
during a Cooperation Afloat Readiness
and Training Brunei 2009 humanitarian
and disaster relief exercise in
Southeast Asia. CARAT is a series of
bi-lateral exercises held annually to
strengthen relationships and enhance the
operational readiness of the
participating forces.
Photo by Canadian Forces
Cpl. Dustin Schalue
Marines
with Lima Company, Battalion Landing
Team, 3rd
Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 22nd
Marine Expeditionary Unit, clear a
staircase in a training area near Camp
Buehring, Kuwait, Aug. 10. The 22nd MEU
is ashore conducting sustainment
training in Kuwait and is currently
serving as the theater reserve force for
U.S. Central Command.
Photo by Cpl. Justin Martinez
Sgt.
Zachary Ritter test fires the tail gun
in a CH-53D helicopter, assigned to
Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 362,
during a nighttime flight in Helmand
province, Afghanistan, Aug. 3. HMH-362
is deployed to Afghanistan in support of
NATO’s International Security Assistance
Force. Photo by Sgt. Timothy Brumley
A
UH-1N Huey helicopter from Marine Medium
Tiltrotor Squadron 263 (Reinforced),
22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, hovers
over Udairi Army Airfield, Kuwait, Aug.
10. Marines from VMM-263 (rein), the
aviation combat element for the 22nd MEU,
joined other elements of the MEU ashore
for sustainment training aboard Camp
Buehring, Kuwait.
Photo by Cpl. Theodore
Ritchie
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