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Marines

Combat Center News

Twentynine Palms, California

Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command and Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center

Archive: October, 2008

Young Marines fall in to new unit

Eight-year-olds to twelfth graders now have the opportunity to join the Mojave Vipers, the newest unit in the Young Marine Program, that has just started in Twentynine Palms, Calif. To join the program, children must be enrolled in a school certified by the state, including home-schooled children. They also must be an overall good

NREA works to keep wildlife wild

As the idea of manifest destiny began to unfold in the United States in the 19th century, and the country became more populated and began to grow industrially, environmental encroachment became more of a dominant issue. This also holds true for the Combat Center, which is built on the former habitat of many desert species, including

Comm School field meet raises morale, awards bragging rights

The Marines of the Marine Corps Communications-Electronics School’s Company B are currently strutting around the schoolhouse all chesty with their heads held high.Marine students, instructors and civilian personnel of MCCES gathered at Victory Field Oct. 10 to take part in the culmination of the school’s annual field meet.Sgt. Maj. Michael B. Gray,

$1 million awarded for wearable power source

The first, second and third place winners of the 2008 Director of Defense Research and Engineering’s Wearable Power Prize competition were announced in an open-gate award ceremony at Del Valle Field Saturday. The following six prize-eligible teams lasted through the initial 92-hour bench test Sept. 28 and earned a place in the final

$1 mil grand prize offered for new wearable power system

The Combat Center is hosting the first-ever Wearable Power Prize competition at Del Valle Field from Sept. 23 through Oct. 4 in support of Defense Research and Engineering. The competition, dubbed the 2008 Director Defense Research and Engineering Wearable Power Prize, is hosted by Dr. William S. Rees Jr., Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for

1st Tank Battalion gives 117 pints of blood

Marines and sailors of 1st Tank Battalion broke a base record Friday. More than 160 tankers registered to donate blood to the Community Blood Bank in what was the largest bulk-donation group the blood blank had ever seen on base, said Kathy Schilling, the charge nurse of the blood drive. After initial screening was done

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