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MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. - Pfc. Billy Toal takes cover while returning fire in a game of paintball here July 31. Service and family members alike can participate in this game at Coastal Paintball located on Parachute Tower Road. The store offers general repairs to paintball guns, replacement tanks for the guns and tank refills. It also offers paintball guns for sale and rent. Toal is a student at the Marine Corps Engineer School on Camp Johnson. (Official U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Brandon R. Holgersen) - MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. - Pfc. Billy Toal takes cover while returning fire in a game of paintball here July 31. Service and family members alike can participate in this game at Coastal Paintball located on Parachute Tower Road. The store offers general repairs to paintball guns, replacement tanks for the guns and tank refills. It also offers paintball guns for sale and rent. Toal is a student at the Marine Corps Engineer School on Camp Johnson. (Official U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Brandon R. Holgersen)

MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. - Les Palm (far left), director of the Marine Corps Association, Quantico, Va., and Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. William L. Nyland (right) share kind words as they fill their plates during a luncheon held at the Paradise Point Officer's Club July 28.Nyland attended the luncheon to talk with active duty service members, retired Marines, family members and MCA representatives about the past, present and future of the Marine Corps. (Official Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Matthew K. Hacker) - MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. - Les Palm (far left), director of the Marine Corps Association, Quantico, Va., and Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. William L. Nyland (right) share kind words as they fill their plates during a luncheon held at the Paradise Point Officer's Club July 28.Nyland attended the luncheon to talk with active duty service members, retired Marines, family members and MCA representatives about the past, present and future of the Marine Corps. (Official Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Matthew K. Hacker)

MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. - Steve Hughes stands in front of a table collecting donations for a charity here July 28. Hughes, a retired Air Force chief master sergeant, visited here while cycling from Maine to Florida to help raise money for Homes For Our Troops, which is based out of Taunton, Maine. (Official U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Brandon R. Holgersen) - MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. - Steve Hughes stands in front of a table collecting donations for a charity here July 28. Hughes, a retired Air Force chief master sergeant, visited here while cycling from Maine to Florida to help raise money for Homes For Our Troops, which is based out of Taunton, Maine. (Official U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Brandon R. Holgersen)

MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. - Any of these products, combined with a rag and a few deep breaths from a good pair of lungs, have the potential to be deadly. Even a single session of abuse can disrupt heart rhythms and cause death from cardiac arrest or lower oxygen levels enough to cause suffocation, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. (Official Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Matthew K. Hacker) - MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. - Any of these products, combined with a rag and a few deep breaths from a good pair of lungs, have the potential to be deadly. Even a single session of abuse can disrupt heart rhythms and cause death from cardiac arrest or lower oxygen levels enough to cause suffocation, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. (Official Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Matthew K. Hacker)

A Red-cockaded Woodpecker takes a cockroach back to his nest. - A Red-cockaded Woodpecker takes a cockroach back to his nest.

MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. - Carmen Lombardo, a wildlife biologist with the Camp Lejeune Environmental Conservation Branch and an avid bow hunter, holds before releasing an arrow off the tower at the Base Archery Range July 20. Archery season begins Sept. 10 and ends Oct. 7 for the state of North Carolina, but Camp Lejeune allows active service members, dependents, retired Marines and civilian base workers to hunt through Jan. 1. (Official Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Matthew K. Hacker) - MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. - Carmen Lombardo, a wildlife biologist with the Camp Lejeune Environmental Conservation Branch and an avid bow hunter, holds before releasing an arrow off the tower at the Base Archery Range July 20. Archery season begins Sept. 10 and ends Oct. 7 for the state of North Carolina, but Camp Lejeune allows active service members, dependents, retired Marines and civilian base workers to hunt through Jan. 1. (Official Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Matthew K. Hacker)

Army Capt. Genevieve Vega, branch chief, Veterinary Services, Naval Hospital, Camp Lejeune, scans the tracking chip implanted in her dog Mya with the HomeAgain scanner. - Army Capt. Genevieve Vega, branch chief, Veterinary Services, Naval Hospital, Camp Lejeune, scans the tracking chip implanted in her dog Mya with the HomeAgain scanner.

An alarming 250 children under the age of five-years-old drown annually in swimming pools, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission's Web site at: www.cpsc.gov. When included in unintentional injuries, drowning has been the second leading cause of death in children under the age of five. In 2002, an estimated 1,600 children were hospitalized for submersion injuries caused in residential swimming pools. (Official Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Matthew K. Hacker) - An alarming 250 children under the age of five-years-old drown annually in swimming pools, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission's Web site at: www.cpsc.gov. When included in unintentional injuries, drowning has been the second leading cause of death in children under the age of five. In 2002, an estimated 1,600 children were hospitalized for submersion injuries caused in residential swimming pools. (Official Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Matthew K. Hacker)

MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. - Sgt. Eric A. Aguilar (right), a PMI with Weapons Training Battalion here instructs Cpl. Thomas Chavez, a Marine Corps Boxing team member, on how get his shots closer in the middle of the target here June 13. The PMIs teach Marines the fundamentals of marksmanship along with weapon safety and weapon handling through annual training before a Marine qualify with his rifle. (Official U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Brandon R. Holgersen) - MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. - Sgt. Eric A. Aguilar (right), a PMI with Weapons Training Battalion here instructs Cpl. Thomas Chavez, a Marine Corps Boxing team member, on how get his shots closer in the middle of the target here June 13. The PMIs teach Marines the fundamentals of marksmanship along with weapon safety and weapon handling through annual training before a Marine qualify with his rifle. (Official U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Brandon R. Holgersen)