November 30, 2012 — Members of the Helmand Provincial Reconstruction Team met with local Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan officials and local village elders in an effort to assess governance, security and stability in Musa Qal’ah, Afghanistan, Nov. 29.During recent years, Musa Qal’ah has undergone drastic changes in an effort to better the lives of MORE
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November 30, 2012 — The phrase "The Few, The Proud" has been associated with Marines for years, but for one infantry company the words have a deeper meaning.Marines with Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, Regimental Combat Team 7, are currently deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. For them, it is an opportunity to build upon and MORE
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November 30, 2012 — Marines from Combat Logistics Regiment-15 recently installed several Ground Renewable Expeditionary Energy Network Systems [GREENS] at several locations throughout Regional Command (Southwest) to improve the communications reliability of critical assets and to develop new ways to employ expeditionary energy solutions.The GREENS is an array of solar MORE
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November 29, 2012 — The Defense Department and South Carolina officials are notifying military members and families who paid state income taxes there that they may have been victims of information/identity theft as a result of several recent cyber intrusions.South Carolina’s Department of Revenue reported nearly four million Social Security numbers and several hundred MORE
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November 29, 2012 — The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is looking to the sun for energy in an effort to help Marines do away with diesel-guzzling generators now used in combat outposts, officials announced Nov. 29.The Renewable Sustainable Expeditionary Power (RSEP) program seeks to create a transportable renewable hybrid system that can provide Marines with MORE
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November 29, 2012 — Marines with 3rd Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 7, recently returned to southern Afghanistan, two years after their deployment to the Marjah area.The opportunity to return to the same area allowed some Marines to see firsthand the difference two years of teaching and mentoring with various Marine battalions and training MORE
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November 27, 2012 — The drive to become a Marine and gain acceptance into the tight-knit family is what drove Staff Sgt. Monica Paz to enlist during July 2000.A veteran of two previous combat deployments to Iraq, Paz is currently serving as the accounting division chief and squadron support division chief for Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 16, 3rd Marine Aircraft MORE
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November 27, 2012 — With the end of the war in Afghanistan drawing closer, the demand for an overwhelming presence of Marines is not needed.A transition to an Afghan-led country is steadily occurring, and with that, the redeployment of U.S. forces.Afghan independence means fewer Marines in Afghanistan, but these Marines need to be accounted for and proper planning MORE
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November 22, 2012 — Abraham Lincoln long ago charged the nation with the duty to "care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan," and one Naval Postgraduate School Operations Research (OR) student has tried to do just that.Marine Corps Maj. David Cote has spent seven years working as a volunteer with the Veteran's Village of San Diego MORE
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November 19, 2012 — Combat engineers man their heavy equipment, pushing thousands of pounds of earth around while building and improving an area vital to the progression of southern Afghanistan.To enable the Marines, sailors and soldiers to focus on the mission at hand and to alleviate the worry of constantly looking over their shoulders for an enemy threat, the MORE
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