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Constant Vigilance 2012

Courtesy Story | III Marine Expeditionary Force / Marine Corps Installations Pacific | Date: 09.12.2012

Marine Corps Installations Pacific conducted Exercise Constant Vigilance 2012, an emergency preparedness exercise designed to improve incident response procedures, within MCIPAC and the surrounding community... Read More

APS-12: Defining leadership through its traits - courage

Story by Cpl. Joshua Hines | Africa Partnership Station 2012 | Date: 09.07.2012

Marines face danger and criticism daily both on and off the battlefield. Some may think being a Marine means to seek out these dangers in all of its shapes and forms. In truth, being a Marine simply means to... Read More

Local Montford Point Marine receives Congressional Gold Medal

Story by Staff Sgt. Lynn Kinney | Headquarters Marine Corps | Date: 08.28.2012

Seventy years after President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 8802 allowing African Americans to serve in the U.S. Armed Forces, 85 year- old Southern Nixon Jr., an African American Private First... Read More

Behind the scenes of Marine aviation aboard USS Bonhomme Richard

Story by Petty Officer 3rd Class Karen Blankenship | Amphibious Squadron 11 | Date: 08.28.2012

Lance Cpl. Benjamin Douglas, an aviation operations specialist from the Flying Tigers of Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron (HMM) 262, is currently embarked aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard... Read More

U.S. Marines, Sailors clean school in Seychelles while conducting port visit

Story by Staff Sgt. Robert Fisher | 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit | Date: 08.15.2012

Marines and Sailors with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit and the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group visited Plaisance Secondary School to help clean up the area and interact with the students, Aug. 3, during a... Read More