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Marines

Stories

Facilities Dept. workers can keep jobs

A thunderous cheer swept the base theater Monday when Maj. Gen. William G. Bowdon, commanding general Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, announced to an anxious crowd numbering hundreds of civilian workers that their jobs are safe — for now — after five years of uncertainty for members of Camp Pendleton's Facilities Maintenance Department. The

Corps' safety mark better so far in 2004

The Marine Corps is on a pace to have its best safety record since 2000 — news that came this week as the assistant commandant of the Marine Corps was visiting Camp Pendleton to make a pitch for safety. "It breaks your heart to hear another Marine has wrapped himself around a telephone pole," Gen. William L. Nyland said Tuesday at the San Luis Rey

Explosive imagination

Sometimes, the door just has to be opened, or the road just has to be blocked. So Marines dig into their bag of tricks and wire up destructive gadgets. That’s the point behind refresher demolition training March 2 at Range 219 near the Camp Horno area. The training allowed anti-armor assaultmen from Companies I and L, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine

Marines role-play Iraq missions

It's Saturday morning and a bunch of Marines are huddled around computers in separate rooms, battling each other. But this is no arcade, and they're not playing video games. They're preparing for redeployment to Iraq by using computer-aided, combat simulation systems at the I Marine Expeditionary Force's Battle Simulation Center. "The BCS is an

FSSG enters Iraq to relieve Army

Nearly half of the 1st Force Service Support Group has arrived and is settling in to its bases in Iraq, steadily preparing to receive the reins from the Army here. While its main mission will be providing supplies and other support to I Marine Expeditionary Force Marines operating in western Iraq, the Group also plans to conduct humanitarian

Civilians among deploying personnel

When newspapers headlines or the 10 o'clock news report on deployments, they usually talk about men and women in uniform — not slacks, jeans or button-down shirts. But U.S. troops aren't the only people who deploy during times of war. A small number of civilian contractors and Department of Defense employees are usually called upon to support the

MEF Marines train behind 8-ball in Kuwait

In case the commanding general ever needs to be evacuated from a "hairy situation," they're the guys tasked with getting it done. So they train to drive like Hollywood stunt men and firefight their way out of jams — for example, being pinned down by a larger enemy force. The I Marine Expeditionary Force's Personal Security Detachment is busy

Combat engineers' handiwork adds grace to icon display at chapel

Cmdr. Jerome Cwiklinski felt his Orthodox chapel did not display the splendor and beauty these sanctuaries of worship are known for. With the aid of a few good combat engineers, the Orthodox chapel, located in the South Mesa Blinder Memorial Chapel, now houses a wall worthy of the religious icons — Jesus, Mary and the saints — mounted upon it. When

Marines go marchin' in

The United States Marine Drum and Bugle Corps, the Silent Drill Platoon and the Marine Corps Color Guard performed the Battle Color Ceremony at the 22 Area Parade Field and the School of Infantry recently. The Drum and Bugle Corps performs martial and popular songs for hundreds of thousands of spectators each year. They travel nearly 50,000 miles

The making of a Dirty Dozen

From the power of the pen to the explosiveness of an AT-4 anti-tank weapon — Marines can improve their combat leadership skills at the Infantry Squad Leaders Course, one of myriad courses available to help infantrymen hone their trade. The ISLC trains noncommissioned officers to apply their leadership to a squad — a team of 12 Marines directed by

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