Marines, DEFY join community to support Red Ribbon Week
October 29, 2005 — Drug Education for Youth children and station Marines joined the Yuma community at West Wetlands Park Oct. 29 for the 10th-annual Red Ribbon Week walk/run event. The DEFY kids passed out T-shirts during the event’s registration, and also participated in the day’s activities along with Marines, their families and about 350 other members of the Yuma MORE
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Mass casualty drill hits station BMC
October 27, 2005 — The Branch Medical Clinic held its annual mass casualty drill Oct. 20 at the station clinic. The drill is conducted at least once a year to make sure the procedures that would take place in real-life scenarios are up to par. “The main reason this drill is done is to see what we can do differently and improve upon in case of an event or a disaster,” MORE
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METOC Marines predict the clime in every place
October 27, 2005 — Some might think that tracking the weather in the Yuma area is an easy job. After all, it’s usually hot and sunny, but there is more that must be taken into account when the accuracy of a weather report affects the safety of Marines, both on the ground and flying overhead. Station Meteorological Oceanographic Command Marines must do just that. MORE
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Marines go “all in” for alcohol-free poker tournament
October 27, 2005 — Fifty-eight station and visiting Marines put on their best poker faces and hoped for a bit of luck as they packed the Gonzalez Room at the Sonoran Pueblo Saturday night to participate in the Drug Demand Reduction Program’s No Limit Texas Hold ‘Em poker tournament. First place winner Lori Loghry received a Marine Corps noncommissioned officer sword MORE
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Crusaders maintain aircraft for WTI
October 27, 2005 — Marines from Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 122, out of Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, S.C., arrived aboard the station Sept. 24 in support of Weapons and Tactics Instructor Course 1-06 and since then, have been working hard maintaining the aircraft in the course. The VMFA-122 “Crusaders” deployed 10 of the 20 F/A-18 Hornets in the course and MORE
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MAWTS-1 takes training into town
October 22, 2005 — Marines from Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron 1, along with Marines participating in the Weapons and Tactics Instructor course, held a training exercise in three different locations, Yuma Catholic High School, Ronald Reagan Elementary School, both in Yuma, and also at Pat Williams Park in Brawley, CA., Oct. 22. The exercise was used to MORE
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Station contributes to Yuma’s growth
October 20, 2005 — Station residents may have noticed U.S. Census Bureau enumerators going door-to-door collecting population information recently in station housing. Under normal circumstances, censuses are collected once each 10 years but, as in the case of Yuma, if a community experiences significant growth before the next federal census, a special census can be MORE
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Exercise, diet, sleep equal total health, fitness
October 20, 2005 — Marines and family members can have many various health and fitness. Some want to be stronger, some want to be skinnier and some want to run faster. Advanced health and fitness goals, however, cannot be reached without a foundation of overall physical fitness. Station Semper Fit personnel offer fitness seekers a basic formula to achieve this. MORE
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Station leader dies of combat wounds, leaves behind legacy
October 20, 2005 — On Aug. 16, 1983, 18-year-old Kenneth E. Hunt Jr. stepped onto the yellow footprints at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, Calif. From that day forward, he dedicated his life, and eventually sacrificed it, in the service of his country and fellow Marines. On July 24, Master Sgt. Hunt was providing security as part of a six-vehicle MORE
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Marines volunteer to translate for teachers
October 20, 2005 — A station Marine was presented with the opportunity to help a local school by finding Spanish-speaking interpreters for the school’s first quarter parent-teacher conference. Sgt. Steven Hernandez, Combat Service Support Detachment 133 motor transport technician, was asked by his wife, Monica Seles, H.L. Suverkup principal’s assistant, if there was MORE
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