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Families celebrate as their Marines come home August 7, 2009 — It was an exciting week for Combat Center families as more than 350 Marines and sailors returned to the Combat Center from deployments. An advanced party of nine Marines from Combat Logistics Battalion 7 returned to the Combat Center July 30 at CLB-7’s battalion headquarters. They were welcomed with banners, cold drinks, and boxes of pizza set up MORE

Helmets to Hardhats opens service members eyes to future careers August 7, 2009 — With Marines and sailors constantly conducting pre-deployment training in the harsh desert landscape aboard the Combat Center, they may not have time to research what resources are available to help them find the perfect career outside the Marine Corps.The Helmets to Hardhats program gives transitioning service members an opportunity to find MORE

Legacy lives aboard USS Jason Dunham August 7, 2009 — Champagne sprayed, crowds cheered and tears flowed Saturday as the mother of the first Marine to be awarded the Medal of Honor since Vietnam christened the Navy’s 59th Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, the DDG 109 with its new name, the USS Jason Dunham.Deb Dunham, accompanied by her biological and Marine Corps family, witnessed not only a ceremony to MORE

MCTOG mourns loss of comms chief August 7, 2009 — The Marines of the Marine Corps Tactics and Operations Group aboard the Combat Center joined the loved ones of a fallen Marine to honor his life and service at the Protestant Chapel July 31. Friends, families and co workers of Sgt. Jose A. Esquivel, a communications chief with MCTOG, gathered to honor a man who was killed in a car accident while MORE

MWSS–374 Marine named Aviation Ground Marine of the Year August 7, 2009 — A heavy equipment operator platoon sergeant with Marine Wing Support Squadron 374 was surprised when he was named the Aviation Ground Marine of the Year and the recipient of the Jack W. Demmond Award which is given to the best ground support Marine for an air wing unit in the Marine Corps. Staff Sgt. Robert Leatherman, a Phoenix native, said he had MORE

Navy's newest destroyer USS Jason Dunham christened August 4, 2009 — The U.S. Navy christened the newest Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, USS Jason Dunham (DDG 109), Aug. 1 during a ceremony at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine."I can tell the crew of the USS Jason Dunham, that you can not have a better namesake, nor a better sponsor. This ship, USS Jason Dunham, will always remind individuals that freedom MORE

Special Reaction Team clears out Range 111 August 4, 2009 — The Combat Center’s Provost Marshal’s Office’s Special Reaction Team conducted vital close quarter combat skills training to prepare them for military operations in urban terrain at Range 111 July 29. The team used simulation rounds and “flash bang” grenades to clear rooms and neutralize hostile threats, said Cpl. Matt McCaskill, a small arms MORE

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