October 21, 2011 — The American Red Cross is providing dental assistant training opportunities for military spouses and status of forces agreement personnel in a course which begins Oct. 31.The individuals chosen for the dental assistant course will receive more than 500 hours of classroom instruction and clinical practice to certify their competency.Two or three MORE
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October 21, 2011 — Military personnel representing both the Armed Forces of the Philippines and U.S. military conducted an opening ceremony here Oct. 17, signifying the beginning of Amphibious Landing Exercise 2012.PHIBLEX is an annual, bilateral training exercise between the AFP and U.S. military, designed to increase interoperability, operational readiness and MORE
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October 21, 2011 — Camps Foster and Schwab and Marine Corps Air Station Futenma mess halls introduced new menu items for Marines and sailors to enjoy Oct. 14.Each mess hall introduced a different food program under the Oki-food initiative, said Master Sgt. Alfred R. Gonzales, operations chief for base food services, Marine Corps Installations Pacific. The Camp Foster MORE
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October 21, 2011 — Approximately 80 Marines donned flak jackets and Kevlar helmets before briskly stepping off for a small-unit leadership exercise along a six-mile route on the Habu Trail at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma Oct. 14.The course refreshed the Marines’ understanding of Marine Corps fundamentals. The Marine participants came from a variety of military MORE
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October 21, 2011 — A humanitarian assistance survey team, consisting of 9 Marines and 1 sailor from III Marine Expeditionary Force, departed for Bangkok, Thailand, to assess the flooded areas and determine potential humanitarian assistance and disaster relief support requirements Oct. 15.Significant rainfall from the monsoon season resulted in flooding, affecting 8.2 MORE
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October 21, 2011 — More than a dozen embarkation specialists and embarker representatives from various units within 3rd Marine Logistics Group, III Marine Expeditionary Force, conducted center of balance training for loading ships and aircraft, on Camp Kinser Oct. 14.“The center of balance training teaches the Marines to find the balance point of a vehicle for when MORE
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October 21, 2011 — Community members joined to remember children lost to miscarriages, stillbirth and newborn death during the 3rd Annual Angel Babies Walk to Remember observance at the chapel on Camp Lester Oct. 15.Each year, 870,000 babies die due to miscarriages, stillbirth and newborn death, said Lt. Cmdr. Samuel E. Ravelo, a chaplain with 12th Marine Regiment, MORE
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October 21, 2011 — Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting Marines and an airman took the Fire Officer One course here Oct. 3-14.The course taught the ARFF personnel to run an incident command, said Joe A. McNeece, a retired fire chief with 30 years experience, who taught the course.The students learned how to accomplish the duties of the first-line commander, so when they MORE
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October 20, 2011 — Marines with 9th Air Support Company, conducted parachute operations training with members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines here Oct. 20.The training was part of Amphibious Landing Exercise 2012, a bilateral training exercise between the AFP and U.S. military, and is designed to increase interoperability, operational readiness and enhance MORE
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October 19, 2011 — U.S. and Philippine service members in support of Amphibious Landing Exercise 2012 worked together to improve their combat readiness through a virtual reality computer program here, Oct. 19.The program, dubbed “Virtual Battlespace 2,” is part of the Deployable Virtual Training Environment, which allows participants to simulate real-life scenarios MORE
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