May 29, 2009 — Marines with the S-6, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit's Communications Platoon, conducted a communications exercise May 11-13 in preparation for the MEU's participation in Talisman Saber 2009 in Australia this July.During the COMMEX, Marines trained with the new Phoenix Satellite Terminal network, which they will use at TS-09, in order to become MORE
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May 28, 2009 — Since 2000 the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program has been strengthening the mind, body and spirit of Marines Corps wide. Recently Marines with 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, began a course focused not only on improving the color of their MCMAP belts, but on giving them the skills to upgrade belt colors of other MORE
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May 28, 2009 — Since the beginning of May, Australian federal quarantine workers have been conducting agricultural inspections of vehicles, equipment and machinery that III Marine Expeditionary Force Marines and sailors will be taking to Australia for Talisman Saber 2009.The team of 12 Australian Quarantine Inspection Service (AQIS) workers is spread throughout MORE
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May 14, 2009 — With almost 50 years of combined military service, Master Sgt. Patrick V. Holmes, the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit’s headquarters commandant, and Gunnery Sgt. Donald P. Dellatte, the 31st MEU’s logistics chief, celebrated their retirements at The Palms, May 12.Both Holmes, who began his military career in 1981, and Dellate, who started his in MORE
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May 03, 2009 — As one Marine entered the schoolyard during a recent community relations project conducted at Banicain Elementary School on May 29 something seemed familiar. It started out as a simple volunteer event, ordinary and not much different from similar projects conducted during Balikatan 2009 – paint a school building and play games with local children MORE
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