October 03, 2012 — The Prince George?s County Police Department?s Special Operations Division hosted its third annual Iron Man Endurance Competition at T. Howard Duckett Park, Sept. 26, and several military teams once again joined in the challenge.?The purpose of the competition was to have the local agencies come together and build camaraderie, as well as show the MORE
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October 03, 2012 — The Washington Nationals celebrated and saluted the Corps with Marine Corps Day at Nationals Park Sept. 24. The event featured the Marine Corps Base Quantico Band playing the national anthem, the Marine Barracks Washington Color Guard and a heartwarming salute to wounded warriors in attendance. ?The most honorable and noble profession on the planet MORE
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October 03, 2012 — Absentee Voting Week is a reminder that it?s still possible for eligible U.S. voters overseas to register and to vote, the acting director of the department?s Federal Voting Assistance Program said today.?It?s not too late to vote,? Pamela S. Mitchell told reporters during a telephone news conference.Mitchell said that during Absentee Voting Week, MORE
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October 03, 2012 — Officials have developed a robust program to ensure absentee military and overseas citizens have the necessary tools to cast their votes, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little said today.As Election Day nears, the Federal Voting Assistance Program has taken a global, innovative and user-friendly approach, including measures mandated by Congress to MORE
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October 03, 2012 — The Defense Manpower Data Center is making it easier for service members and their families to get and maintain identification cards.The center has launched its RAPIDS -- Real-time Automated Personnel Identification System -- self-service portal to allow service members and reservists with the Defense Department?s common access card, or CAC, to MORE
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October 03, 2012 — With non-stop flying comes non-stop maintenance for aviation mechanics of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit.The maintenance crews of the 24th MEU?s aviation combat element, Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 261 (Reinforced), have stayed busy over the past six months of their deployment ensuring the MV-22B Ospreys, AV-8B Harriers, CH-53E Super MORE
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October 03, 2012 — Marines from Camp Pendleton-based 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade, 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit, Combat Logistics Regiment 1 and the 1st Marine Division Band have landed in San Francisco for Fleet Week 2012, Oct 3-8.More than 2,500 Marines and sailors aboard the USS Makin Island are participating in the 31st annual Fleet Week. As the Marine MORE
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October 03, 2012 — More than 80 graduate students from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and 15 students from Johns Hopkins University took part in the Quantico Leadership Venture at Marine Corps Base Quantico?s Officer Candidates School on Sept. 20-21.OCS hosted the Quantico Leadership Venture to give business students exposure to the leadership MORE
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October 02, 2012 — Vice President Joe Biden today joined Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter at a Pentagon ceremony marking the end of production of the mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicle.There are seven MRAP variants, and nearly 28,000 of the vehicles were produced over the past five years, with 24,059 fielded to Iraq and Afghanistan. Nearly 13,000 of MORE
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October 02, 2012 — When Staff Sgt. Juan Contreras first joined the Marine Corps he had no idea where that journey would lead him.Contreras, a senior advisor with the food service contact team, I Marine Expeditionary Force Headquarters Group (Forward), originally came into the Marine Corps as an administration clerk."I decided to join the Marine Corps as an MORE
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