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Marines, sailors attend leadership course

Story by Sgt. Elyssa Quesada | 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit | Date: 01.15.2012

Forty corporals serving with the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit and two sailors serving with USS Makin Island (LHD 8) completed two weeks of formal non-commissioned officer training aboard the amphibious assault... Read More

Faces of Transition: The Goofy Logistics Lieutenant

Story by Cpl. Reece Lodder | Regimental Combat Team-5, 1st Marine Division | Date: 01.14.2012

U.S. Marine 1st Lt. Ryan Gulliksen is goofy. The proclamation isn’t an outside observation. It’s an insistent confession backed by an animated personality and matching enthusiasm the lieutenant carries into... Read More

Marine infantrymen mentor Afghan police force in Garmsir

Story by Cpl. Reece Lodder | Regimental Combat Team-5, 1st Marine Division | Date: 01.13.2012

When U.S. Marines with Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, arrived here in early November, they met an Afghan National Police force primed for development. Read More

Operation Tageer Shamal: Afghans, Marines extend presence west of Helmand River

Story by Cpl. Reece Lodder | Regimental Combat Team-5, 1st Marine Division | Date: 01.10.2012

The heart of Garmsir district is safe. Over the past five years, coalition forces have operated with Afghan National Security Forces to defeat the insurgency in the central Helmand River valley. Driven from the... Read More

White Platoon, ANA key to security in southern Bala Murghab

Story by Tech. Sgt. Kevin Wallace | 100th Air Refueling Wing Public Affairs | Date: 01.09.2012

At Combat Outpost Delorean, the southern-most coalition stronghold in the Bala Murghab Valley, soldiers typically fall asleep to the gentle serenade of explosions and awaken to hostility and enemy fire. They... Read More