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Marines

Stories

MCB Camp Pendleton Stories and News Articles

Jumping: The Watoto Children?s Choir combined traditional African dance with modified Christian gospel music to convey their message of hope. They trained for five months before taking their show to countries around the world. - Jumping: The Watoto Children?s Choir combined traditional African dance with modified Christian gospel music to convey their message of hope. They trained for five months before taking their show to countries around the world.

African orphans deliver heartfelt performance

A timeless message resonated between the walls of Camp Pendleton’s Base Theater recently … Hope. The Watoto Children’s Choir, an ensemble of orphaned Ugandan children, sang uplifting songs and performed energetic dance routines for an audience of Marines, their families and students from a local grade school March 27. The children, many of whom

ACU-5 whisks firefighters away to island blaze

For the second time in four years, Assault Craft Unit 5 personnel and their speedy landing crafts, air cushions rushed to the aid of Los Angeles County firefighters recently to help battle a blaze on a nearby island. About 80 ACU-5 sailors responded to the blaze in Jan., caused by a downed power line, on Santa Catalina Island 50 miles northwest of

Adoptive families again plentiful

For the second year in a row, more than enough North County families have stepped forward to host a Marine for a holiday meal - raising the possibility that some families who want to help out won't get to. Program coordinators are encouraging all service members who don't want to be alone over the holidays to sign up. "It's called Adopt-a-Marine,

Admin clerk's lethal hands belie gentle, caring touch

Deep among the tangled streets of Los Angeles, a homeless man awoke on a sidewalk in front of a sandwich shop and found a gift sitting with his few belongings stashed behind a trashcan. Cpl. Rodney Solorzano Jr. had bought a sandwich for the man he guessed would wake up hungry. "I hope he doesn't just throw it away," the 27-year-old Marine

A commander's eye view

Some believe that behind every good platoon commander stands a good platoon sergeant. According to that credo, the School of Infantry's Advanced Infantry Training Company is marrying staff noncommissioned officer experience with officer education to create the best leaders possible and ensure that every commander has a strong enlisted adviser to

;They could've gotten out, but bit the bullet to answer the threat

Standing in line for roll call with the Los Angeles Police Department, it was just another day for Staff Sgt. Ryan J. White, until the unthinkable occurred 3,000 miles away on the other side of the country. "It was surreal," said White, the company gunnery sergeant with Headquarters and Service Company, 2nd Battalion, 23rd Marine Regiment, a

;Silver Star account 'chilling';

Leondro F. Baptista says any of the 25 men in his platoon would have done what he did last spring in Iraq. Nonetheless, his exploits were anything but ordinary -- even to a man who's heard plenty of firsthand accounts about what heroes have done. "What this Marine did brings chills down my spine," said Maj. Gen. Richard F. Natonski, commanding

A million letters and counting

Retired Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers, 15th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was honored with a letter representing 1.4 million thank you letters sent to troops overseas by the students of Orange Lutheran High School, Nov. 4. The campaign dubbed “A Million Thanks” devotes itself to collecting letters from writers of all ages and sending

64th Anniversary celebration of the Women Marines reserve

The Women Marines Association celebrated Women Marine's 64th year in the Marine Corps Feb. 10 at the South Mesa Staff Noncommissioned Officers' Club. Veterans from World War II through present day were on hand to recognize the contributions and accomplishments of women Marines past and present. After the “March of the Women Marines” was played by

8 Marines injured in I-5 crash

OCEANSIDE - Eight Miramar-based Marines were injured, two of them seriously enough to be life-flighted, when three vehicles from their convoy collided in the southbound lanes of Interstate 5 Sunday near a rest stop south of the Las Pulgas Road exit. Mercy Air flew Lance Cpls. Blake Lubic, 20, of La Mesa, and Jesus Ortiz, 22, of San Diego, to

9th Comm. reach out and talk

Marines from 9th Communications Battalion participated in 1st Marine Expeditionary Force Command Post Exercise (MEFEX) Sept. 26 through Oct. 10 at Camp Del Mar. Although this is an annual event, 9th Comm. members got a chance to showcase equipment that is relatively new to the Marine Corps. During the two-week evolution Marines cleaned, set up and

9th Comm embarks experience for OIF II

Marines from 9th Communication Bn., I Marine Expeditionary Force, are increasing their training tempo and turning to their experienced leaders for a second tour in the Persian Gulf. The battalion was deployed to Kuwait for Exercise Internal Look in October 2002 and continued to serve in Kuwait and Iraq for Operation Iraqi Freedom until October

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