Solar panels soak up the desert sun outside of the generators and tents they are helping provide power for outside the Marine Corps Training Operations Group headquarters at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif. The Corps is testing several “green initiative” systems designed to boost generator power, cutting fuel costs and prolonging the generators’ life spans. (Official USMC photo by Sgt. Heather Golden) - Solar panels soak up the desert sun outside of the generators and tents they are helping provide power for outside the Marine Corps Training Operations Group headquarters at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif. The Corps is testing several “green initiative” systems designed to boost generator power, cutting fuel costs and prolonging the generators’ life spans. (Official USMC photo by Sgt. Heather Golden)
A crewman with Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 361 conducts a pre-flight inspection on a CH-53E Super Stallion May 20, 2011, on the flight line at the Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center Bridgeport, Calif. - A crewman with Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 361 conducts a pre-flight inspection on a CH-53E Super Stallion May 20, 2011, on the flight line at the Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center Bridgeport, Calif.
(From left) Cpl Patrick Rowe, Lance Cpl. Jose Velasquez, Cpl. Edward Huth and Maj. Patrick McKinley, who received Bronze Stars and Lance Cpl. Brian Murphy who received a Purple Heart, stood proud with their awards in hand and medals on their chest at their award ceremony at Felix Field May 27, 2011. - (From left) Cpl Patrick Rowe, Lance Cpl. Jose Velasquez, Cpl. Edward Huth and Maj. Patrick McKinley, who received Bronze Stars and Lance Cpl. Brian Murphy who received a Purple Heart, stood proud with their awards in hand and medals on their chest at their award ceremony at Felix Field May 27, 2011.
Master Gunnery Sgt. Victor Purvis, a battalion motor transport chief with 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, holds his 7-year-old daughter, Reagan, moments after returning from a seven-month long deployment to Afghanistan June 1, 2011. - Master Gunnery Sgt. Victor Purvis, a battalion motor transport chief with 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, holds his 7-year-old daughter, Reagan, moments after returning from a seven-month long deployment to Afghanistan June 1, 2011.
Major Hans Petter Loeken [left] and Capt. Kay Bjornar Oyas, both officers on the Norwegian defense staff, show their excitement before their first Osprey ride May 10, 2011. The visitors are departing from Miramar to the Mountain Warfare Training Center Bridgeport for their annual orientation tour. - Major Hans Petter Loeken [left] and Capt. Kay Bjornar Oyas, both officers on the Norwegian defense staff, show their excitement before their first Osprey ride May 10, 2011. The visitors are departing from Miramar to the Mountain Warfare Training Center Bridgeport for their annual orientation tour.