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Archive: September, 2005

Yuma Marine calls shots on the field

Marines can often be seen moonlighting at facilities on station and in town to supplement their incomes. All the civilian jobs Marines take on require particular skills, but one Marine has found a job that allows him to use Marine skills, apply Marine Corps knowledge and be close to the game he loves so much. Brian Stelly, network technician,

A mysteriously masked woman enjoys music from the Yuma Jazz Company in the Infinities enlisted club here Sept. 30 during the Marine Corps Community Services annual Mardi Gras party. The event, which raised money for active duty and retired service members and their families displaced by Hurricane Katrina, began in Infinites and later spread through the rest of the club. - A mysteriously masked woman enjoys music from the Yuma Jazz Company in the Infinities enlisted club here Sept. 30 during the Marine Corps Community Services annual Mardi Gras party. The event, which raised money for active duty and retired service members and their families displaced by Hurricane Katrina, began in Infinites and later spread through the rest of the club.

Station parties Mardi-Gras style to benefit Katrina victims

Yuma civilians, Marines, sailors and their families let loose at the Sonoran Pueblo Sept. 30 to raise money for service members affected by Hurricane Katrina. One-hundred percent of the proceeds from Marine Corps Community Services’ annual Mardi Gras party this year will go to the Navy Marine Corps Relief Society’s Hurricane Katrina Fund, which is

Marine celebrates 26 years with 5K

More than one hundred Marines participated in Master Sgt. Roberto Pou’s 5K retirement run sponsored by Semper Fit Friday on station. Pou spent 22 of his 26 years on station and has been extremely active in the Semper Fit program ever since his first assignment with Marine Aircraft Group 13 in 1979 and even made drives from Marine Corps Air Ground

Marine and wife save 2 from desert heat

A Marine and his wife rescued two Yuma area teenagers from dehydration in the desert behind the foothills Sept. 17. Master Sgt. Brian Benbow, Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron operations chief, and wife Maria Benbow, were in the area with a metal detector, a hobby Benbow says they enjoy occasionally, when they saw 15-year-old Kelby Carley

Kindlers keep it in the family

“It’s a family business that’s been passed on for four generations now,” said Master Gunnery Sgt. Jeffery W. Kindler, staff noncommissioned officer-in-charge at Aircraft Rescue Fire Fighting on station. Most would assume the “Master Guns” was talking about a local restaurant, construction company, or a law firm. “Joining the Marine Corps was

Station fire department teach PMO hazardous lessons

The Marine Corps Air Station Yuma Fire Department held an Emergency Response Guidebook and Fire Department Integration class for the station Provost Marshal’s Office Sept. 27 at Building 916 here. Michael R. Batson, assistant fire chief for the station fire department, held the class. “The training was broken up in to two different classes,” said

Sgt. Anthony R. Rodriquez, Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron Marksmanship Training Unit, Indoor Simulated Marksmanship Training noncommissioned officer and a native of Santa Maria Calif., installs the new training scenarios into the new station ISMT at Building P-40 Sept. 23. The new ISMT gives shooters more options for scenarios in which to improve their marksmanship skills. - Sgt. Anthony R. Rodriquez, Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron Marksmanship Training Unit, Indoor Simulated Marksmanship Training noncommissioned officer and a native of Santa Maria Calif., installs the new training scenarios into the new station ISMT at Building P-40 Sept. 23. The new ISMT gives shooters more options for scenarios in which to improve their marksmanship skills.

New high tech ISMT opens

The station Marksmanship Training Unit’s new Indoor Simulated Marksmanship Trainer is now ready for firing. The new ISMT, which up and running Sept. 23, is more realistic then it’s predecessor, said Sgt. Anthony R. Rodriguez, Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron MTU ISMT noncommissioned officer. “The old one was a dinosaur,” said Rodriquez, a

MAWTS-1 hosts retired Marine, astronaut

Retired major general and former astronaut Charles F. Bolden Jr. addressed Marines enrolled in the Weapons and Tactics Instructors Course Sept. 14 in Toad Hall in Building 406 on the subject of operational risk management. Currently self-employed as a military and aerospace consultant, Bolden is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and earned a

Sand Sharks back from Iraq

The main body of Marine Wing Support Squadron 371 returned to the station Sept. 8 after a seven-month deployment to Al Anbar Province of Iraq. The Marines and sailors arrived at 6 a.m. at Hangar 220, where a crowd of family and friends, including Marines from the two MWSS-371 advance parties that returned Aug. 30 and Sept. 1, greeted them. During

Station Marine shows combat through art

Many people will never have the opportunity to experience war firsthand, but through the paintings and sketches of a Marine Corps illustrator, art can serve as eyes into the world of combat. Cpl. Annette Kyriakides grew up in Wellsboro, Pa., and has always had an interest in art. She began drawing as soon as she was able to hold a pen, she said.

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