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Marines

Stories

Buyers warned against holiday credit crusades

During the holidays, too many credit-card purchases can result in a flood of pesky calls from creditors in the new year. So base credit counselors are urging consumers to be cash-conscious before loading up loved ones with gifts. Nonetheless, some Pendleton Marines plan to make plastic the rule rather than the exception when it comes to funding

Maimed OIF vet mulls future in Marine Corps

Gunnery Sgt. David J. Dill never saw it coming. He knew the dangers. He'd trained to disarm them for years. But bad luck, bad timing and the dangerous nature of clearing minefields caught up to him. Dill, the staff noncommissioned officer-in-charge of 1st Combat Engineer Battalion's Sapper Course, lost his lower left leg to an Iraqi land mine

Marines fire rounds, loosen trigger fingers

Lance Cpl. Mary F. McCue crouched down behind the monstrous machine gun. She gripped the vertical handles of the M-2 .50-caliber weapon, ready to send downrange half-inch-thick chunks of lead. She just couldn't keep from smiling as her thumbs mashed down the butterfly trigger. "This was my first time firing the '.50-Cal,'" said 22-year-old McCue,

Sapper: where infantry Marines broaden their skill-set

They're the Marines who clear the path into combat. Marines called "sappers" use cunning determination and skill to defeat enemy defenses and they learn how to do it right in Camp Pendleton.Sapper course offers combat- arms Marines an opportunity to learn new techniques, from field maneuvering to dealing with high explosives during combat.The term

1st CEB clearing the field

Some Marines might look at barricades, fences, barbed wire and minefields as obstacles that deter their mission. Not combat engineers. For them, it's a chance to blow things up. Company B's 3rd Platoon from 1st Combat Engineer Battalion put a charge into its training last week at Camp Pendleton's Range 600. The training with line charges was aimed

Pendleton shoppers escape holiday logjam

Ryan Aragon knew exactly what he wanted for Christmas, even if he wasn't tall enough to reach it. "Mom! Mommy!" exclaimed the 3-year-old. "I want that!" When his mother, Carrie Aragon, reached down to inspect the Fisher Price Imaginext set, she didn't have to push past any other parents on the first official day of the holiday shopping season.

Tow trucks rolling as PMO clears lots on Pendleton

Military Police are working to clear parking lots on Camp Pendleton congested with disowned or neglected vehicles. That means they're being towed away. The Provost Marshal's Office is taking a firm stand on vehicles left behind by owners long returned from deployment or who are simply taking advantage of free storage. "We are going after cars

Camp Pendleton leathernecks mourn road accident deaths

They did everything right -- except they may have been going too fast. That's the story emerging from the deaths of three 1st Transportation Support Battalion Marines killed Nov. 23 -- among five Camp Pendleton Marines killed in accidents the weekend before Thanksgiving. "These Marines were wearing their seat belts, they did have a designated

High-altitude, lifesaving 'doc' decorated

Quick thinking, accurate assessment and a cool head came together to allow a Camp Pendleton Navy hospital corpsman to save the life of a Marine. For that, he was decorated here last week. Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Michael V. Rakebrandt may think that saving lives is just part of the job, but to Marines like Lance Cpl. David J. Silton it means a

Cannons conk 'enemy,' pave way for 2/1 at CAX

The deafening thunder of cannons gave earth-shattering notice that "the kings of the battlefield" arrived in the desert to liquidate those pesky "Sumarians."At stake, the mission and the well-being of a Camp Pendleton-based infantry unit, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment.Third Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment delivered its eardrum-piercing fire on

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