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RCP-30 explains complexity and importance of route clearance
Story by Sgt. Victor Everhart | 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division | Date: 01.19.2012With the snow settled and ice hidden under the white blankets of winter, the ground is hard and slick, but this doesn’t impede on the mission at hand clearing the road of IEDs and any other ordnance aimed at... Read More
Combat engineers improve ‘Old Silk Road’
Story by Master Gunnery Sgt. Phil Mehringer | 2nd Marine Logistics Group | Date: 01.18.2012Nearly 150 Marines from 2nd Marine Logistics Group (Forward)’s 9th Engineer Support Battalion converged in the open Helmand desert on a dry river bed known as a wadi. They needed to quickly build a land bridge... Read More
Detroit native draws on experience to lead Marines
Story by Cpl. Meredith Brown | 2nd Marine Logistics Group | Date: 01.07.2012Nicholas Marchioni enlisted in the Marine Corps in 2000 as an infantryman and like many, he completed his four-year contract and headed back home to start a new chapter in his life. Read More
Combat engineers perform route recon mission, paving the way for road improvements in Afghanistan
Story by Cpl. Meredith Brown | 2nd Marine Logistics Group | Date: 01.06.2012Two Marines carefully stepped out of the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle and extended their metal detectors to full length during a route reconnaissance mission on Route Red, Jan. 1-3. The quick checks... Read More
Long live the King: Marine returns to Corps after 21 years, shares wisdom with juniors
Story by Cpl. James Clark | Regimental Combat Team 8, 2nd Marine Division | Date: 12.27.2011He can be found in the early mornings, rousing exhausted twenty year-olds from the rack with a mug of steaming coffee in hand, or come evening, shrouded in a veil of cigar smoke, reclining in a leather armchair... Read More
