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Lincoln Military Housing provides junior enlisted with new homes

For more than 10 years, Lincoln Military Housing has been working closely with all levels of the armed services to create a new and vastly improved standard of military housing. Since 2001, they have developed or managed more than 31,000 homes.Heroes Village, a new housing development along Brewster Boulevard and the first Lincoln neighborhood

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(From left to right) James, Philip and Peter Shippy, military children, celebrate for winning second place during a sandcastle building competition at Onslow Beach, hosted by Harriote B. Smith Library aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, July 26. More than 67 Summer Reading Program participants attended the event. - (From left to right) James, Philip and Peter Shippy, military children, celebrate for winning second place during a sandcastle building competition at Onslow Beach, hosted by Harriote B. Smith Library aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, July 26. More than 67 Summer Reading Program participants attended the event.

Library hosts sandcastle building completion at Onslow Beach

With imaginations inspired by fable stories, Hobbit-sized architects carved and molded beach sand into majestic castles that any king would love to live in. The castles were built so fast it seemed as if their creators possessed magical tools to aid in the construction. But these were normal kids driven by nothing more but the chance to have

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Challenging Children workshop provides assistance to EFMP caregivers

During a Challenging Children workshop held at the Russell Marine and Family Services Center aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, parents, educators and social workers joined together to learn to effectively track behavior patterns, July 26.Apple Boyce, a behavior consultant with Priorities Applied Behavior Analysis, focused on how to make data

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Maj. Gen. Carl B. Jensen (right), commanding general of Marine Corps Installations East, turns over the colors and his position to Col. Thomas A. Gorry, brigadier general select, during the MCIEAST change of command ceremony at the 2nd Marine Logistics Group Amphitheater, July 22. Gorry, who comes to MCIEAST from his previous assignment as the director of the Command and Staff College, Marine Corps University, takes charge as the third ever MCIEAST commander. - Maj. Gen. Carl B. Jensen (right), commanding general of Marine Corps Installations East, turns over the colors and his position to Col. Thomas A. Gorry, brigadier general select, during the MCIEAST change of command ceremony at the 2nd Marine Logistics Group Amphitheater, July 22. Gorry, who comes to MCIEAST from his previous assignment as the director of the Command and Staff College, Marine Corps University, takes charge as the third ever MCIEAST commander.

MCIEAST CG relinquishes command, retires

Under a bright yet overcast Carolina sky, ceremonial platoons representing Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, Marine Corps Air Station New River and other factions under the Marine Corps Installations East banner gathered for a change of command ceremony which transferred leadership over East Coast Marine bases and stations.Maj. Gen. Carl B. Jensen,

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Disabled American Veterans Chapter 16 hosts fundraisers, seeks volunteers

End of Active Service, for those who hit the date it is a time to hang up their utilities and prepare for their life in the civilian community. At times, many of these service members leave the military disabled, physically or mentally.The life ahead of them may become hard at times and a shoulder to lean on may be needed. For that, veterans have

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Costa Constantinou, a music specialist with Delalio Elementary School aboard Marine Corps Air Station New River, dances for the students of the Tarawa Terrace II Elementary School as part of the End of the Summer School Celebration, July 22. - Costa Constantinou, a music specialist with Delalio Elementary School aboard Marine Corps Air Station New River, dances for the students of the Tarawa Terrace II Elementary School as part of the End of the Summer School Celebration, July 22.

Students, families celebrate end of summer school with song and dance

Kindergarten through fifth grade children who are enrolled in an area summer enrichment program held for students aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune and Marine Corps Air Station New River hosted their End of the Summer School Celebration at the Tarawa Terrace II Elementary School, July 22. The program is a summer enrichment program designed to

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Female Marine finds passion in bodybuilding

Sgt. Yuri Astorga is not your typical Miami girl. She may be from there, but mini-skirts, high heels and sunglasses that cover half of her face were never really her style. Since ninth grade, she has spent most of her life at the gym, training to have a fit body and compete as a female body builder. “My best friend’s sister did competitions and I

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Gunnery Sgt. Michael Baehr, section head of explosive hazards, with Combat Engineer Instruction Company, Marine Corps Engineer School, shows the midshipmen a shaped charge that the Israeli forces use with their rifles, during a stop at the Engineer School as part of the midshipmen’s weeklong Career Orientation and Training for Midshipmen program aboard the base. The midshipmen toured the base and rappelled down towers, rode in amphibious assault vehicles and got to understand the way the Marine Corps works and a Marine’s daily life. - Gunnery Sgt. Michael Baehr, section head of explosive hazards, with Combat Engineer Instruction Company, Marine Corps Engineer School, shows the midshipmen a shaped charge that the Israeli forces use with their rifles, during a stop at the Engineer School as part of the midshipmen’s weeklong Career Orientation and Training for Midshipmen program aboard the base. The midshipmen toured the base and rappelled down towers, rode in amphibious assault vehicles and got to understand the way the Marine Corps works and a Marine’s daily life.

CORTRAMID lets midshipmen experience the Marine Corps

For many people, riding in an amphibious assault vehicle, getting up close to controlled demolitions or even rappelling is something that they will never do.However, Navy Reserve Officer Training Corps midshipmen from across the country going through the Career Orientation and Training for Midshipmen were given a chance to do all of this during

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A Navy Reserve Officers’ Training Corps midshipman, Marine Corps option, leaps over a series of horizontal logs on the obstacle course during the Career Orientation and Training for Midshipman East 2011 program aboard Camp Geiger, July 18. Five hundred ROTC students from across the country will spend four weeks aboard Naval Station Norfolk, Va., Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Ga., and Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune to oversee the various Department of the Navy career options. - A Navy Reserve Officers’ Training Corps midshipman, Marine Corps option, leaps over a series of horizontal logs on the obstacle course during the Career Orientation and Training for Midshipman East 2011 program aboard Camp Geiger, July 18. Five hundred ROTC students from across the country will spend four weeks aboard Naval Station Norfolk, Va., Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Ga., and Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune to oversee the various Department of the Navy career options.