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Major’s retirement marks family’s 98 years of combined service

Many families have a tradition of military service. It’s a tradition that is sometimes passed from father to son, but sometimes all members are a part of the tradition. Maj. Glenn Gerichten, former director of the Supply Management Division, Business and Logistics Support Department, Marine Corps base, retired after 25 years of faithful service

Marines smoking less, drinking more

Marines are lighting up those ‘cowboy killers’ less but they are hitting the bottle more. Released this month, the 2005 Survey of Health-Related Behaviors explains how much service members’ use alcohol and tobacco. The survey, conducted by Research Triangle Institute, a nonprofit research firm based in North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park,

Governer's initiative identifies needs of military dependent children

Leading up to and during a deployment a family goes through a lot, but who is still developing and learning ideas and concepts – the children. In an initiative, created by Governor Mike Easley, state-wide-institutes will be training to help educators better understand the challenges faced by children of deployed parents, according to a press

AMCC offers gift cards for opinions

A survey for military families in underway to ensure the homes and neighborhoods aboard Camp Lejeune and Marine Corps Air Station New River meet the needs and tastes of military families and to further research the preferences of military families. Atlantic Marine Corps Communities, which manages nearly 75 percent of the housing here and all the

Education opportunities aboard Lejeune

Marines hear a lot of ‘What can you do for your country?’, but you may wonder what can the Marines Corps do for you? Educational opportunities abound in the Corps and the Department of Defense wants Marines to take advantage of them. The Lifelong Learning Center is the education office at Camp Lejeune and provides education services that use

TAPS supports families

When tragedy strikes and a service member makes the ultimate sacrifice where does the entire family look for support? Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors, a non-profit group, provides the answer with a long-term-support network for the families of those who have died in service to America. TAPS founder, Bonnie Carroll, who lost her husband,

Feel good, give blood

Every two seconds, someone in America needs blood and just one unit of blood can help save as many as three lives, according to the Red Cross. In 1970 Blood service providers have designated January as National Volunteer Blood Donor Month in an effort to avoid blood shortages in the winter months, according to a Red Cross press release. The winter

CFC wraps up

“Philanthropy is an altruistic concern for human welfare and advancement, usually manifested by donations of money, property, or work to needy persons, by endowment of institutions of learning and hospitals, and by generosity to other socially useful purposes,” as defined by the dictionary.com. The Combined Federal Campaign for 2006 wrapped up with

Through rain sleet or snow

Dedicated, professional and hard working are words that describe a group of Marines that are busy with their vocation before some Marines are warming up for their morning workout. These Marines are the postal clerks who work at five different post offices around Camp Lejeune, and they have a simple motto, said Master Gunnery Sgt. Crawford Wheeler,

First female brig guard promoted to master sergeant

In the history of the Marine Corps Brig guards there has only been one female to reach the rank of master sergeant. After nearly 19 years of service Pamela Pride, who is charge of the programs section, with Brig Company, Headquarters and Support Battalion, Marine Corps Base, was promoted to master sergeant at the beginning of the year. Pride