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Marines learn how to detect invisible threat during course

Story by Lance Cpl. Devin Nichols | 2nd Marine Logistics Group | Date: 10.18.2012

Deadly radiation kills if it goes undetected, so it falls upon specially trained Marines to alert units of the unseen danger. Read More

Attack helicopter Marines practice close-air support, Integrate with ground troops at Camp Lejeune

Story by Lance Cpl. Scott L. Tomaszycki | 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing & Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point | Date: 08.15.2012

When a platoon of 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion Marines was pinned down on the rooftops of a small town by guerrilla fighters, a forward air controller called for air support. Hearing gunfire rattling over the... Read More

Medics train on patient extraction procedures

Courtesy Story | 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade | Date: 02.19.2012

It’s 10 a.m. on the flight line at Forward Operating Base Salerno. All you can hear is the sound of a UH-60 Black Hawk‘s rotor blades winding down on one of three designated medevac parking pads. Read More

Combat engineers tunnel into leveled buildings to save lives

Story by Staff Sgt. Emily Suhr | California National Guard | Date: 11.04.2011

Responding to a simulated improvised nuclear device in downtown Phoenix as part of the 2011 Arizona Statewide Vigilant Guard exercise, about 60 combat engineers from the 235th Engineer Company (Sapper), 579th... Read More