March 25, 2011 — Lance Cpl. Yamile Brito is proving the truth of former President John F. Kennedy’s statement that “One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.”Brito, a Marine with Headquarters Battalion, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force, is the driving force behind a food drive at the Camp Courtney commissary for victims of the MORE
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March 25, 2011 — Exercise Key Resolve 2011 ended March 10, and 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, III Marine Expeditionary Force, assets used for the exercise are being sent to mainland Japan to support humanitarian assistance and disaster relief efforts there.According to Sgt. Kevin Medina, a system administrator with Marine Tactical Air Command Squadron 18, Marine Air MORE
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March 25, 2011 — A 9.0 magnitude earthquake, with an epicenter located 231 miles northeast of Tokyo, and subsequent tsunami has resulted in at least 9,199 deaths, 13,786 missing people and 2,722 injured people on mainland Japan as of March 22, according to the National Police Agency of Japan.These natural disasters have damaged or destroyed nearly 37,700 buildings, MORE
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March 25, 2011 — As the Japanese soil heaved relentlessly beneath her and skyscrapers swayed menacingly above, Cara Underwood realized that this earthquake was nothing like the ones she had experienced while growing up in San Diego. Amid the chaos and terrified screams, she clutched her family tight and thought, “This is it.”Spell ChampionAnthony Smith-Underwood MORE
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March 24, 2011 — Since the massive 9.0 magnitude earthquake that rocked the island of Japan and triggered a devastating tsunami, Marines, sailors and civilians from III Marine Expeditionary Force and Marine Corps Bases Japan have been working around the clock in support of Operation Tomodachi. The name of the operation, Tomodachi, means “friends” in Japanese, and MORE
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March 24, 2011 — Cpl. Tori K. Tadehara was a passenger in the back of a 7-ton cargo truck headed back to temporary billeting where he would be able to catch a few hours of sleep before hitting the road again. It was 15 degrees and dark outside except for the glow of the headlights from the next truck in the convoy. The headlight beams were seeping through the MORE
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March 23, 2011 — (Updated March 22, 8:30 p.m. JST)We all recognize the enormous impact that the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, as well as the resulting dangerous situation at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, has had on Japan. The United States is continuing to do everything it can and should do to support our close friends, the people of Japan, as they MORE
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March 18, 2011 — Camp Hansen Marines and sailors are voicing their opinion to the commander and influencing changes for the better, according to Hansen leadership.Camp Hansen’s leadership is soliciting junior Marine and sailor input at its quarterly “Tell It to the Commander” town hall-style meetings then making changes based on that input, explained Gunnery Sgt. MORE
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March 18, 2011 — More than 130 Marines with Romeo Battery, 5th Battalion, 10th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, out of Camp Lejeune, N.C., arrived on Okinawa to augment 3rd Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force, as part of the Marine Corps’ Unit Deployment Program March 11.“It’s a MORE
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March 18, 2011 — Members of the III Marine Expeditionary Force Medical Simulation Center staff hosted Maj. Gen. Yasuhide Uwabe, director of the medical department for the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, March 2.Uwabe and his staff saw the equipment and facilities that III MEF has to train Marines in advanced lifesaving.Combat lifesaver and tactical combat casualty MORE
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