May 28, 2002 — U.S. Marines from 2nd Battalion, 25th Marines, out of Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C., were at the U.S. Army National Training Center, Fort Irwin, Calif., May 5 - 24 as part of a cross-service training exercise aimed at giving U.S. service members a chance to learn realistic, desert combat training skills. "Cross-service training allows MORE
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May 23, 2002 — Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow was recently recognized for its environmental achievements by winning the Secretary of the Navy's Pollution Prevention award for an Industrial Installation and also being runner-up for the Department of Defense's award for fiscal year 2001. The awards were presented to representatives from winning installations MORE
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May 23, 2002 — "People get ready, there's a train a comin'," a song by Curtis Mayfield and Impressions from 1964, comes to mind when watching the train movements at the Yermo side of MCLB Barstow. Several tons of steel, known in some circles as "whispering death," rumbling along at approximately 10 mph and loaded with cargo is no easy thing to stop once its MORE
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May 10, 2002 — The former Marine corporal looked like a well-aged Forrest Gump as he continued his coast-to-coast mega-marathon May 10 in front of Headquarters Battalion Marines at MCLB Barstow.With a slow but steady pace, 64-year-old Kenn Kemper, sporting a foot-long silver beard and wearing a white "Great Amerithon" hat, ran with active-duty Marines for the MORE
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May 09, 2002 — At nearly 11 feet tall, it's huge, and sporting a 425 horsepower caterpillar C12 engine, it's very powerful. It's the latest edition to the Marine Corps fleet of motor transport vehicles called the MTVR (medium tactical vehicle replacement), a 7-ton truck. Fleet Support Division received 10 of the trucks approximately two weeks ago and on May 3 a MORE
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May 02, 2002 — Thirty-five Marines converged on Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow in April, their primary objectives: work hard, assist a sister unit and return to home base. The Marines, assigned to 2nd Platoon, Company A, 7th Engineer Support Battalion, from Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, arrived April 26 with one purpose in mind: assist Fleet Support MORE
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