April 30, 2005 — U.S. service members' dedication was the universal impression carried home this week by a group of radio personalities following a weeklong visit with Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines serving on the front in the global war on terror. The group -- consisting of talk-show hosts, a reporter and even a classic-rock disc jockey -- traveled to MORE
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April 29, 2005 — The United States and Vietnam are helping heal wounds left by the war that ended 30 years ago by working together to determine the fate of missing service members in Vietnam, including 1,800 from the United States."As we mark the 30th anniversary of the end of the war, we must not forget those on both sides who made the ultimate sacrifice during MORE
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April 29, 2005 — Thirty years ago, the last U.S. helicopter lifted off the roof of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, South Vietnam, marking the official end of the Vietnam War. The decade-long conflict left 58,000 Americans and an estimated three million Vietnamese dead, and for the next two decades, relations between the United States and the Socialist Republic of MORE
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April 29, 2005 — Another night of volleyball spun off in the Commanding General’s Volleyball League at the East Gym April 29. One team backed out of the league April 22, changing the play schedule, but the teams are back on track and ready to play. The first match-up of the night placed 1st Tank Battalion against Headquarters Battalion, Installation Personnel MORE
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April 29, 2005 — Long before the sun came up April 29, the more than 120 Marines and Sailors of India Battery, 3rd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, geared up and left for a seven-month deployment to Okinawa.For some of the 121 Marines who deployed with India Battery and the 10 Marines who deployed ahead of the battery, this will be their first deployment. For MORE
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April 29, 2005 — Something new parents find out, seemingly all too late, is that babies are expensive. They require diapers, car seats, formula, strollers, cribs, blankets, medicine … the list is endless. The myriad problems quickly diminish the value of the parents’ once-mighty dollar. To help in this financial crisis, the Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society offers MORE
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April 29, 2005 — What does the Twentynine Palms Highway, California Garden Clubs, a blue star and a button all have in common? Twentynine Palms Chamber of Commerce is selling those buttons to pay for a plaque for Highway 62, which was designated by California Garden Club to become a Blue Star Memorial Highway, to dedicate to the men and women of the military. MORE
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April 29, 2005 — If you call yourself a Marine and are a gun owner, the Gun Control Act of 1968 (Title 18, United States Code, Sec 922), as amended on September 30, 1996, could have serious consequences on not only your right to possess a firearm, but on your eligibility to remain in the Marine Corps. Lautenberg’s main effort makes it a felony for any individual MORE
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April 29, 2005 — The new military housing privatization project, commonly known as Public-Private Venture, is scheduled to start the lease process in early August. The process will entail the military member residing in on-base housing to sign a lease agreement, very similar to a “private sector rental” lease. However, if the military member is deployed, a MORE
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April 28, 2005 — Several federal agencies, including the Department of Defense, have partnered to assist severely injured service members and their families, the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Military, Community and Family policy said today to the nation's state officials. Policy officials representing states that host about 70 percent of active, Guard and MORE
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