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Archive: December, 2001

Sand Sharks improve Djiboutian quality of life

For the third time in more than a year, utilities specialists from Marine Wing Support Squadron-371 used their talents to benefit citizens of the African nation of Djibouti. The MWSS-371 Sand Sharks sent a detachment of nine Marines and a corpsman to the east African nation for nearly three weeks, from Oct. 31 to Nov. 19. Their goal while on the

One survivor's tale of 'Day of Infamy'

The Dec. 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor turned many young Americans into heroes and transformed a young nation into a contender among long-established world powers. Survivors of that fateful morning will claim they were not heroes, but rather just average Americans doing what anyone would do. Most people, however, will describe them as much more:

MACS-1 Marine's quick thinking prevents accident

A Marine from Marine Air Control Squadron-1 recently was awarded for quick thinking that kept an ugly situation from getting uglier during a routine equipment transport mission to Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, Calif., Nov. 7. Lance Cpl. Kevin Abraham received a Navy Achievement Medal, Nov. 20, for actions he took to ensure the safety of

Marines in paradise: Sandsharks exercise leadership, tactical skills

A detachment of roughly 30 Marines from Marine Wing Support Squadron-371 left for Marine Corps Base Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, Monday, to participate in a three-week-long squad leaders' course run by the 3d Marine Regiment stationed there.The course is designed to expand on the tactics Marines learn in recruit training and Marine Combat Training Ñ such

Marines send message of hope: Toys for Tots program grows in success over past 54 years of service

When she asked her husband to find a way of giving toys to disadvantaged children in 1947, Diane Hendricks probably didn't realize her suggestion would result in the establishment of such a popular institution of giving. Hendricks' query to her husband, then-Marine Corps Reserve Major William Hendricks, became the birth of the Marine Corps

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