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11th MEU Prepares for New Supply System

11th MEU Public Affairs Office, CAMP PENDLETON, Calif.

The findings of a September 2011 report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) highlight the incredible difficulty of conducting audits and equipment accountability for each branch of the military. Since first attempting a full-scale audit in 2008, the Marine Corps has continually made progress and leads the other services in refining the




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MMEA to visit Camp Pendleton for career enhancement

Cpl. Christopher Duncan, MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP PENDLETON, Ca.

The Manpower Management Enlisted Assignments Command is slated to visit Pendleton to conduct a series of manpower in-calls, briefs and interviews, Oct. 17-19. The purpose of the visit is to update commanders of enlisted manpower issues and assist Marines in making well informed career decisions.Information pertaining to enlisted assignments,




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Louisiana’s Military Family Assistance Fund provides cash to Reserve service members in need

Marine Forces Reserve Public Affairs, NEW ORLEANS

While frequent moves, deployments and lengthy training assignments are not uncommon for active-duty Marines, Reserve Marines face the unique challenge of leaving their civilian salary for a military salary, which is sometimes much less lucrative. In response to this need, Louisiana citizens have come together since 2005 to offer veterans up to




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15th Marines Expeditionary Unit plays Santa

Gunnery Sgt. Jennifer Antoine, 10.12.2012

DILI, Timor-Leste - Shouts of “Bondia, Bondia, Bondia,” which means good morning in the native language of Tetun, could be heard as the Religious Ministry Team of the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit visited school aged children to hand out sporting equipment, books and writing supplies Oct. 12. Timor-Leste is a new country, which has only seen its




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15th MEU lends helping hand to Timor-Leste

Lance Cpl. Timothy Childers, 10.11.2012

A Marine Expeditionary Unit is tasked to be America’s rapid-response force, protecting U.S. interest abroad and able to plan and conduct combat operations when the nation needs it most. Sometimes, however, Servicemembers are able help other nations when they are in need.Marines and sailors from the 15th MEU came ashore to Timor-Leste during




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Marines host youngsters' field trip to Cherry Point flight line

Cpl. Tyler J. Bolken, MARINE CORPS AIR STATION CHERRY POINT (Sept. 26, 2012)

There are no two better words in grade school than “field trip” – invoking a feeling of freedom for a day out of the classroom with sack lunches in hand.With that child-like enthusiasm, 28 second and fifth-graders herded onto the flight line at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point Sept. 26. The elementary school students, from St. Paul Catholic




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Oct

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MAG-14 welcomes new commanding officer, sergeant major

Lance Cpl. Stephen T. Stewart, MARINE CORPS AIR STATION CHERRY POINT, N.C.

MARINE CORPS AIR STATION CHERRY POINT, N.C. – Marine Aircraft Group 14 at Cherry Point experienced a complete change in senior leadership over a two-day period. Sgt. Maj. David L. Bradford took over as the senior enlisted advisor of the group from Sgt. Maj. Timothy King Oct. 4. The next day, Col. Robert B. Sofge assumed command of the group from




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Sunday skydive: Wing Marines send MARSOC soaring into Midwest

Cpl. Tyler J. Bolken, MARINE CORPS AIR STATION CHERRY POINT (Sept. 30, 2012)

Never mind watching football or pulling out the barbecue to finish up the weekend on a sunny Sunday afternoon. Marines with Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 252 fired up two of the squadron’s KC-130J Hercules transport planes on the Cherry Point flight line Sept. 30 to make a trip to the Midwest for the day to dump 21 parachuting special




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Engineer Marines press training advantage

Lance Cpl. Paul Peterson, CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C.

Rapid volleys of fire punched holes into the man-shaped targets and echoed over the otherwise empty ranges. The recoil of each shot road up their cheeks and shoulders as the shooters fought to maintain control of their weapons.The Marines with Engineer Company, Combat Logistics Regiment 2, 2nd Marine Logistics Group stood less than 50 yards from




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Marine Corps Joint Strike Fighter conducts first aerial refuel

Cpl. Brian Adam Jones, Eglin Air Force Base, Fla.

In the sky above the Gulf of Mexico near Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., the future of Marine aviation punched through the warm Florida air Oct. 2. F-35B Joint Strike Fighters with Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron 501 from Eglin conducted the first air-to-air refuel of an operational aircraft in the program’s history. Previous aerial refueling





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