Archive for May, 2012
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Marine Corps to launch new holistic fitness program
You may be physically fit, but are you MCFIT? The Marine Corps is developing a new fitness program called Marine Corps Fitness Improvement Tool to improve awareness of the total fitness of Marines. A group [Read more...]
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Marine crew chief gets off the couch, into combat
Sgt. Enrique Zamora, a crew chief with Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 466 and Los Fresnos, Texas, native, keeps an unusual collection with him on flights: a selection of Chevrolet Hot Wheels cars. “For good luck,” [Read more...]
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Why We Serve Campaign
Upon enlistment, a Marine makes a pledge to protect and defend the United States, its people and its way of life. For many Marines, however, dedication to the American people goes beyond their duty to [Read more...]
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Dog Tags Make It Home After 66 Years
In the summer of 1945, a young man with 6th Marine Division by the name of Pfc. John B. Quinn Jr., arrived on Okinawa, Japan to assist in the invasion during World War II. He [Read more...]
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The Last China Band
From 1927 to 1941, members of the 4th Marine Regiment were stationed in Shanghai, China, protecting American citizens and their property in the Shanghai International Settlement during the Chinese Revolution and the second Sino-Japanese War. [Read more...]
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Pushing Yourself to the Limit
Working out. What does that mean to you? Is it an hour at the gym before work, a jog during your lunch break or swimming laps at the pool after work? For Sgt. Enrique R. [Read more...]
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Getting On With Life
Veteran Sgt. Robert “Bobby” Norman first met his wife, Melissa, when they were just kids while playing baseball with her older brother. They dated on and off for years while Norman, a Shawnee, Okla., native, [Read more...]
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Faces of Transition (A Little Pashto Goes A Long Way)
The meeting was ordinary but the conversation unusual. Seated on opposite sides of a stuffy room inside an Afghan elder’s dirt-walled compound, a pair of Marines and their interpreter relax among friends, sprawling out on [Read more...]
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Remembering Music on Iwo Jima
Pfc. Frank J. Matthews sat resting on the ground with his returning patrol. His wrist was aching more than usual today, and he rubbed the dirty bandage that encircled it and held together his tattered [Read more...]
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Journey Through the Snow (Part 3)
On the last leg of our training, we had to leave Grouse Meadows and head up to Summit, almost 1,000 feet higher in elevation. We filled in the trenches and holes where our tents used [Read more...]