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Tuition Assitance used by only 13% of Corps

Even though most Marines rate up to $4,500 in off-duty tuition assistance annually, only 13 percent took advantage of the benefit in fiscal year 2009, according to Marine Corps education officials. In FY-09, 619 station Marines used approximately $1.2 million in tuition assistance to enroll in 1,477 courses, said Cindy Harris, station education

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Wayne Dettinger, a Sikorsky egress mechanic with Marine Fighter Training Squadron 401, instructs ground combat officers attending the Weapons and Tactics Instructor course in ejection and emergency egress procedures from an F-5F Tiger II at the Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma, Ariz., Sept. 22, 2009. The students were preparing for a flight to show them what a close air support mission looks like from a pilot’s point of view. - Wayne Dettinger, a Sikorsky egress mechanic with Marine Fighter Training Squadron 401, instructs ground combat officers attending the Weapons and Tactics Instructor course in ejection and emergency egress procedures from an F-5F Tiger II at the Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma, Ariz., Sept. 22, 2009. The students were preparing for a flight to show them what a close air support mission looks like from a pilot’s point of view.

Ground officers get eye in sky for Yuma's WTI

Marines on the ground regularly communicate with pilots to guide them onto targets during close air support missions, but they rarely get the chance to witness what the pilot sees flying 15,000 feet above the battlefield.That changed for 17 ground combat officers this week when they flew in the back seat of an F-5F Tiger II with pilots from Yuma’s

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Marines from Marine Air Control Squadron 1’s Tactical Air Operations Center return to the Marine Corps Air Station Sept. 2, 2009, from a monthlong deployment to the United States-Canada border. The TAOC set up mobile radar units along the Northern border to assist Border Patrol agents to identify aircraft flying into the U.S. illegally. - Marines from Marine Air Control Squadron 1’s Tactical Air Operations Center return to the Marine Corps Air Station Sept. 2, 2009, from a monthlong deployment to the United States-Canada border. The TAOC set up mobile radar units along the Northern border to assist Border Patrol agents to identify aircraft flying into the U.S. illegally.

Yuma's MACS-1 watches northern border

A detachment of Marine Air Control Squadron 1 Marines returned home Sept. 2, 2009, after completing a monthlong operation supporting the U.S. Border Patrol along the United States-Canadian border in Montana.The squadron’s Tactical Air Operations Center aided U.S. Border Patrol agents in identifying aircraft suspected of conducting illegal

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