Firefighters team up with Mr. Roboto
July 31, 2012 — Firefighters risk their lives to save others on a daily basis. They rush into collapsing buildings with smoldering hot temperatures, leaking chemicals and poisonous gases. In some cases, these conditions become too extreme and dangerous for a human to face alone.Firefighters from Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, and Chemical, Biological, MORE
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Extreme makeover: commanding officer edition
July 30, 2012 — Marine Corps Combat Service Support Schools trains many Marines every year in the fields of personal administration, supply, financial management and logistics operations, among others.MCCSSS held a change of command ceremony July 30 aboard Camp Johnson, in which Lt. Col. Timothy B. Seamon relinquished command of the unit to Lt. Col. Paul F. MORE
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Marines compete in blood drive
July 27, 2012 — Blood is a bodily fluid that delivers substances such as oxygen and nutrients to replenish one’s body. For injured service members in life threatening situations, blood can be as valuable as gold. Marine with Headquarters and Support Battalion hoped to increase the supply of blood available to their service members by coordinating a competition MORE
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Marines battle in fields during SMP trip
July 27, 2012 — A fire team of Marines rushes toward their adversary firing with every opportunity and covering when overwhelmed. A combat correspondent capturing the action takes a knee to snap a photograph and he's hit twice in the chest and once in the head. “Man down,” yelled a Marine who witnessed his comrade go down.Fortunately for the Marines shot, they'd MORE
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50 years and $70 million later the MCSF is still helping families
July 26, 2012 — Since 1962 the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation has awarded more than 30,000 recipients with over $70 million, and it has no plan on stopping. The MCSF celebrates its 50th year of donations and is currently the United States’ largest and oldest foundation of need-based scholarships for military families. With the increasingly steep cost of MORE
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Officers share their knowledge with NROTC students
July 26, 2012 — Midshipmen in the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps wrapped up their week-long, education-packed stay aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune July 26. The NROTC students took part in a dinner and a military occupational specialty mixer aboard Marine Corps Air Station New River and the opportunity to ask officers of various rates and occupations MORE
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Midshipmen leave Camp Lejeune with a bang
July 26, 2012 — Marines are trained to use a wide variety of weapons systems in order to be able to pick up any weapon and effectively utilize it. Midshipmen aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune got a taste of the different types of weapons available to Marines July 26 as part of their Career Orientation and Training for Midshipmen. One of the four weeks of MORE
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Midshipmen undergo Marine Week aboard MCB Camp Lejeune
July 25, 2012 — There are many different paths that lead to the Marine Corps. There is the post-high school path, which many enlisted Marines follow. Some join later in life, after test-driving the college road. Others still go to college and participate in the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps while in school, in the hopes of commissioning. Those that choose MORE
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Severe consequences for littering
July 23, 2012 — Anyone driving on Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune should think twice before they decide to throw that empty water bottle out the window. MCB Camp Lejeune has severe punishments for those who choose not to wait until they find a trash can.According to Base Order 5560.2N, a first offense for littering will result in a six month driving ban aboard the MORE
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Commander’s Cup kicks off brand-new cycle with paddleboarding
July 20, 2012 — After 12 months of grueling competition, Headquarters and Support Battalion named Company A the winner of the year-long cycle of competitions, known as the Commander’s Cup Challenge, last month. Company A didn’t have much time to celebrate their victory however, as the battalion was right back at it July 20, with the first contest of the new cycle MORE
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