Marine Corps News 

United Through Reading program brings families closer
Forward-deployed service members in Afghanistan are staying in touch with family, friends and children through a simple yet effective program dubbed United Through Reading. The program is offered through the chaplains of Combat Logistics Battalio...
BLT 3/2 attends combined raid course
Marines with Kilo and Weapons Companies, Battalion Landing Team, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, learned the art of raids during a combined raid course held aboard Camp Lejeune, N.C. Dec 1 - 19, 2008. Kilo Co. ...
22nd MEU Marines fly high with SPIE
Dangling from a rope attached to an aircraft flying more than 250-feet above the ground isn't how most people get around. But the Marines aren't like most people.  If stuck in terrain where mountains, trees or buildings prevent insertion or extr...
Navy League contributes to Toys for Tots campaign
(From left to right) 1st Lt. Luke Gaffney, Toys for Tots coordinator, Mel Ing, Navy League golf director, Lt. Gen. John F. Goodman (Ret.), Navy League honorary co-chair, Lt. Gen. Keith J. Stalder, commander, U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Pacific, Carole...
OIF actions earn corpsman combat promotion
A sailor from 2nd Medical Battalion, Combat Logistics Regiment 25, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, received a combat meritorious promotion to the rank of petty officer first class, Dec. 17, for actions in Iraq from March 29 to April 28. Petty Officer...
Family readiness as a combat multiplier
In October of 2006 commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. James T. Conway called for an improvement of the Marine Corps’ Family Readiness program by expanding the budget of the program from $5 million to $60 million. Today, units throughout the Corps h...
IPs learn life-saving medical skills
“He’s bleeding out of a major artery! He’s going into shock! Get his pulse and apply a tourniquet, now!” These words boomed from the mouths of Navy corpsmen with Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 1,...
USO show ‘Rocks’ Al Asad
Service members here had the opportunity to laugh and rock out to comedians Lewis Black, Kathleen Madigan, John Bowman and musicians Tichina Arnold, Zac Brown, Kellie Pickler and Kid Rock Dec. 19. This is the seventh stop on a holiday tour the g...
Tight-knit Marine security unit regular ‘band of brothers’
No one really knows who would win in a fight between Hellboy and Ironman, but Security Company is trying to figure it out. During a recent combat logistics patrol here, 5th Squad, Security Co., Combat Logistics Battalion 5, 1st Marine Logistics Grou...
Deployed service members enjoy USO Holiday Tour
Country-music singer and songwriter Kellie Pickler performs for service members during the United Service Organization’s Holiday Tour here Dec. 19. The 2006 American Idol contestant was joined by musician Kid Rock Zac Brown, and comedians John Bowma...