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Combat Center Marines take part in Memorial Day ceremony

The Joshua Tree Memorial Park and Mortuary’s gravesites were speckled with American flags. A crowd of veterans, active-duty service members and local residents of the community filled rows of chairs as the color guard marched into place and the national anthem began to play during a Memorial Day service.

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Katherine Martinez, wife of Sgt. Lenny Martinez, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle mechanic, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron 1, conducts the high crawl during a modified Combat Fitness Test as a part of the unit's Jayne Wayne Day May 23, 2014. - Katherine Martinez, wife of Sgt. Lenny Martinez, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle mechanic, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron 1, conducts the high crawl during a modified Combat Fitness Test as a part of the unit's Jayne Wayne Day May 23, 2014.

Spouses step into their Marines’ boots

Marine Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron 1 held its annual Jayne Wayne Day May 23, 2014. The event took Marine spouses to different Combat Center sites to experience a taste of the Corps.

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Master Gunnery Sgt. Nick Formosa lost his life July 27, 2007, when he was driving his motorcycle down Highway 62 and was struck by another driver. In an instant, a man who dedicated his life to family and to Corps was gone. - Master Gunnery Sgt. Nick Formosa lost his life July 27, 2007, when he was driving his motorcycle down Highway 62 and was struck by another driver. In an instant, a man who dedicated his life to family and to Corps was gone.

Combat Center battles war on traffic safety

Fifty stars and 13 stripes were carefully folded and a single bugle somberly bellowed “Taps” across the Saints Peter and Paul Cemetery in Springfield, Pa. A Marine handed the nation’s colors, folded in to a neat triangle, to Christina Formosa. As she clutched it tight to her chest, she placed her hand among the red, white and yellow flowers, atop the coffin of her husband, Master Gunnery Sgt. Nick Formosa, and after 28 years of marriage, she bid her final farewell to the love of her life and a Marine whose life was taken too soon.

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The Mobile Detection Assessment Response System uses color and infrared cameras, allowing operators to see things that Marines conducting ground patrols cannot. The system also utilizes a radar system to detect enemy presence and alert the operator. - The Mobile Detection Assessment Response System uses color and infrared cameras, allowing operators to see things that Marines conducting ground patrols cannot. The system also utilizes a radar system to detect enemy presence and alert the operator.

Combat Center Marines' first look at unmanned security vehicle

Over the years, science fiction movies have depicted robotic sentinels as enforcers of the law. These feats of technology were equipped with machine guns, could see a wide spectrum of light through their bionic eyes and could report their findings to their handlers instantly.

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The Mobile Detection Assessment Response System surveys the area around the Combat Center's Expeditionary Airfield, Feb. 6, 2014. The MDARS can be equipped with weapon systems and can be adapted to the needs of the Air Base Ground Defense. - The Mobile Detection Assessment Response System surveys the area around the Combat Center's Expeditionary Airfield, Feb. 6, 2014. The MDARS can be equipped with weapon systems and can be adapted to the needs of the Air Base Ground Defense.

SPAWAR system provides security for Marines

Marines with Marine Wing Support Squadron 374 conducted Air Base Ground Defense training during their evolution of the Integrated Training Exercise with the help of a new unmanned ground device, the Mobile Detection Assessment Response System, Feb 6, 2014.

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Cpl. Matthew Riedel, unmanned aerial vehicle operator, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron 1, speaks with Ryan Biggs, 6, and Richard Biggs, 6, first graders at Joshua Tree Elementary, prior to beginning a race with them and other students at Joshua Tree Elementary during an adopt-a-school visit Dec. 4, 2013. - Cpl. Matthew Riedel, unmanned aerial vehicle operator, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron 1, speaks with Ryan Biggs, 6, and Richard Biggs, 6, first graders at Joshua Tree Elementary, prior to beginning a race with them and other students at Joshua Tree Elementary during an adopt-a-school visit Dec. 4, 2013.

VMU-1 participates in adopt-a-school

Marines with Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron 1 participated in a visit to Joshua Tree Elementary as part of the adopt-a-school program Dec. 4, 2013.

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Cpl. Dillon Erickson, field radio operator, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron 1, is reunited with his girlfriend, Gail Bolander, during the squadron's homecoming at the VMU-1 hangar Nov. 22, 2013. - Cpl. Dillon Erickson, field radio operator, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron 1, is reunited with his girlfriend, Gail Bolander, during the squadron's homecoming at the VMU-1 hangar Nov. 22, 2013.