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Camp Lejeune News

Archive: September, 2000

Explosive finale for CAX-9;

In major league baseball, there is the ever-popular World Series. For football fans, the most exciting game of the year is the Super Bowl. In soccer, there is the World Cup. In combat, however, there is no championship; in wartime there is simply victory and defeat. For the Combined Arms Exercise, which is the Marine Corps premier training

EOD has important, but explosive job

Initial success or total failure. These can be words to live by if you are in the business of detonating or disarming explosives. For many of the Marines who enjoy this dangerous task, a wrong move may mean the injury of themselves or a fellow leatherneck. These hard charging defusing blastmasters are the small band of brothers of the Explosive

New 'bat boat' speeds rescue time, saves lives

Fire Station Number 3 here recently received its very own "bat boat" to replace three of the old fire/rescue boats. The new boat was on display for members of the Military Civil Task Force for Emergency Response Sept. 7 at the Officers Club. The MCTFER is a military and civilian task force that was created in August 1998, and has been continually

3/6 battles the mountains in Bridgeport

All that was heard on the mountainside was the sound of pinecones and small twigs being crushed under their boots. They were making their way through the rocky, tree infested terrain to the Combat Operations Center where they would link up with other units and prepare for further operations.Marines from 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines are participating

MCT Chaplain Lifts Spirits

Dealing with the physical and mental demands of a boot camp-like training environment during the 17-day field portion of Marine Combat Training (MCT) can be a stressful experience for many young Leathernecks. Combined with the anxiety of being away from family and friends for an extended duration, the time entry-level Marines spend at MCT often

Bataan Death March survivor

Imagine for a moment simple things that make life easy. Taking a morning shower, changing into clean clothes, and of course eating a good meal. Now imagine not having these things. Add to that being beaten, suffering humiliation and having friends die beside you. It may sound like something out of a movie. However, for one U.S. Marine, this

Navy Corpsmen practice diplomacy and medicine in Argentina

Navy Corpsmen attached to Small Craft Company, Headquarters Battalion, 2d Marine Division, landed in Argentina recently, in support of their Marines, and brought with them a new concept for the medical staff of at the Argentinean base. "They couldn't get the concept that I wasn't a doctor," said Knoxville, Tenn., native, Petty Officer 1st Class

Survivor -- Urgent Fury veteran still active after near-death experience in Grenada;

"They were shooting at me for sport. That made me mad, because sooner or later they would have to hit me," said Col. Timothy B. Howard in a November 1986 article from The Observation Post. "So I waved my middle at them in my last hope of defiance." Howard, who is the 2d Marine Division's assistant chief of staff for intelligence, at the time, was

Lejeune wows Yahoo! winners

With warriors' faces and Marine hearts, the "Yahoo! Fantasy Career Day" winner Richard A. Castanet, 47, of Richmond, Va., teamed with son Christian, 17, and experienced a portion of Marine Corps life here recently. After a brief stop at Marine Corps Air Station New River, N.C., the pair boarded separate AH-1 Super Cobra helicopters and rode

Birds of steel bring air support to CAX

The platoon had been hammering the enemy continuously with mortars and small arms fire for the past two hours. As the troops held the enemy at bay, they could clearly see the bright impacts of 500-pound bombs on the enemy objective. This was before they heard the eardrum-shattering howl of F-18s as they flew close overhead. In battle, the air