October 29, 2007 — MORE
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October 26, 2007 — I recently experienced a first in my repetitive lifestyle. As a Marine, I am required to maintain and re-qualify for specific individual training standards every year. The ITS cover everything from ensuring Marines are trained riflemen, to improving our roles as better family members and American citizens. Unfortunately, the methods in which we MORE
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October 26, 2007 — Service members, their families and retirees who evacuated from their homes due to fires in San Diego County this week have been temporarily relocated to Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego. So far, 408 people have stayed in the 183 rooms that have been made available in the Transit Enlisted Quarters, according to Clara S. Morales, assistant MORE
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October 26, 2007 — Naval Medical Center San Diego opened a newly renovated Comprehensive Combat and Complex Casualty Care (C5) Facility designed to better care for and prepare wounded service members for their return to active duty or the civilian world, Oct. 15. The 30,000 square-foot facility includes a gait analysis lab—a motion lab that monitors skeletal MORE
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October 26, 2007 — Staff Sgt. Brian Kiraly rarely found time as a 1st Battalion drill instructor to enjoy his favorite pastime of weight training. After he was assigned as the battalion drill master nearly seven months ago, he found the time and motivation to resume lifting.\ Since then, he has competed in four weight lifting meets and has dominated his respective MORE
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October 26, 2007 — Marine Corps recruits qualifying with the M16-A2 service rifle now receive their qualification awards after completing two scored portions of rifle range training rather than one. The change was implemented Oct. 1 and is designed to give recruits more combat-orientated training before moving to the School of Infantry, Marine Corps Base Camp MORE
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October 26, 2007 — Fighting back tears, a Company A Marine tells the story of a civil war and the Marines who saved him. Private Okuni Cube Mawa, Platoon 1005, was born in the southern area of Sudan. Mawa was visiting his grandparents, who also lived in the southern Sudan, during the outbreak the civil war in the early 1990s. When the war broke out, his parent’s MORE
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October 26, 2007 — Local business and professional leaders took a swing at supporting the military Oct. 19. The San Diego Downtown Breakfast Rotary Club Foundation hosted their sixth annual golf tournament, “Holes for Heroes,” at the Coronado Municipal Golf Course in Coronado, Calif., to raise money for three organizations who support the local military MORE
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October 18, 2007 — Private First Class Yevgeniy Kulgeko’s first memories of the military take him back to his hometown of Tashkent, Uzbekistan, where his grandfather, an officer in the Soviet Army, would give him rides around the neighborhood in an armored vehicle.During this time, Uzbekistan was living under the shadow of the Cold War and was an enemy of the United MORE
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October 18, 2007 — An estimated 700,000 spectators from all over the world gathered at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, Calif., for the 2007 Miramar Air Show Oct. 13-15.This year’s theme was “Thunderbirds over Miramar—The Sound of Freedom,” as the Air Force Thunderbirds performed at the Miramar Air Show for the first time in 35 years.Despite the downpour during the MORE
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