Posts Tagged ‘Cpl. Reece Lodder’
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2012 Year in Photos (November)
I’m with Stumpy Happy 237th Birthday Risky Cuts Is it Dusty in Here? Ready, Aim, Fire Field of Marines Birthday Run JAN | FEB | MAR | APR | MAY | JUN | JUL | AUG [Read more...]
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2012 Year in Photos (August)
All Terrain Vehicle Gripping Grenades Generations of Greatness Ugly Angels Pool Party Move Those Chains Ohana Hug JAN | FEB | MAR | APR | MAY | JUN | JUL | SEP | OCT | [Read more...]
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2012 Year in Photos (April)
Cruisin’ for a Bruisin’ Walking Tall Corpsman Up Marine Corps on Wheels Some Like It Hot Leading the Way Candy Man JAN | FEB | MAR | MAY | JUN | JUL | AUG | [Read more...]
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2012 Year in Photos (March)
A Dip in the Sea The Tempest Where Ya Headed? Vertical Night Landing Rope Slide Maiden Landing New Shoes JAN | FEB | APR | MAY | JUN | JUL | AUG | SEP | [Read more...]
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2012 Year in Photos (February)
Blood Is Thicker Than Water On Top of Inspections Final Farewell An Apple a Day Making a Splash Eagle Storm Hooked on Phonics JAN | MAR | APR | MAY | JUN | JUL | AUG [Read more...]
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2012 Year in Photos (January)
Let Sleeping Dogs Lie Smooth Sailing Goodbye ‘Birth Control Glasses’ Through the Mist No Marine Left Behind Lighting Strikes Shot in the Dark FEB | MAR | APR | MAY | JUN | JUL | [Read more...]
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Photo of the Year Winner: Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
You voted, and 2012’s Corps Top Shot comes from Cpl. Reece Lodder. Lodder, a combat correspondent, captured this photo in January 2012 while helping to clear houses of insurgent activity during Operation Tageer Shamal (Pashto [Read more...]
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Surviving Deployment Separation
Deployments are always hard, especially your first deployment. The unknown can really eat away at you when your life seems to be in a state of limbo. Most of us know what it’s like to [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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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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Dogs of War: Friends and Saviors of Marines in Afghanistan
GARMSIR DISTRICT, Afghanistan— Without the Marine’s watchful eyes and his dog’s trained nose, the round metal container packed with 40 pounds of homemade explosives could have wreaked destruction on their patrol. The Feb. 8 security [Read more...]
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Killing Time (Bragging Rights)
FORWARD OPERATING BASE DELHI, Afghanistan — The ragged dartboard nestled between camouflage uniform items and a giant American flag has seen better days. Thousands of tiny holes pockmark its aged cork scoring area. An ever-increasing [Read more...]
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Life on a Patrol Base
Rise and Shine PT Chow Daily Grind Down Time Letters to Home PATROL BASE BURY, Afghanistan —Their humble home is exceptionally primitive, but it’s all the deployed infantrymen need. Patrol Base Bury, a tiny base [Read more...]
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Killing Time (A Letter A Day)
PATROL BASE BURY, Afghanistan — For six of the eight months he’s been married, Cpl. Devin Deweerdt has lived apart from his wife. Shortly after their wedding, the 20-year-old mortarman left for his last leg [Read more...]
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Faces of Transition (Passing the Torch)
This is the third installment in an ongoing series featuring members of the Afghan National Security Forces, and the Marines and sailors serving with 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, during their 2011-2012 deployment to Afghanistan’s [Read more...]
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Killing Time (Hitting The Books)
COMBAT OUTPOST TORBERT, Helmand province, Afghanistan — The small, dusty tent reeks of filthy gear and grimy infantrymen who haven’t seen a real shower in three months. As the day falls into night, they’ve found [Read more...]
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Faces of Transition (The Battered but Unbroken Soldier)
FORWARD OPERATING BASE DELHI, Helmand province, Afghanistan — The soldier’s youthful eyes and perpetual smile contradict what he’s endured. In 22 years, Afghan National Army Sgt. Khal Mohammad, an infantryman with 2nd Kandak, 1st Brigade, 215th [Read more...]
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Faces of Transition (The Goofy Logistics Lieutenant)
FORWARD OPERATING BASE DELHI, Helmand province, Afghanistan — First Lt. Ryan Gulliksen is goofy. The proclamation isn’t an outside observation. It’s an insistent confession backed by an animated personality and matching enthusiasm the lieutenant carries into [Read more...]
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Killing Time (Channeling Boredom Into Board Games)
This is the fourth installment in a series on U.S. Marines and Navy corpsmen from 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, based out of Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay. After laboring through training in the [Read more...]
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Killing Time (Fighting Through the Wringer)
This is the third installment in a series on U.S. Marines and Navy corpsmen from 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, based out of Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay. After laboring through training in the [Read more...]