MWSS-371 Marine represents station in West Coast firearms tourney
March 31, 2006 — A Marine with Marine Wing Support Squadron 371 competed in the 2006 Western Division Competition-in-Arms Program at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., March 13-31 and returned to station April 18. Sgt. Edward Goenne, MWSS-371 bulk fuel specialist, represented Marine Corps Air Station Yuma in the competition as a member of the 3rd Marine MORE
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Black Widows end season with perfect record, second half championship
March 30, 2006 — The Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 13 Black Widows may have been visitors on paper, but they are not strangers to the station’s intramural basketball championship games. The Black Widows defeated the Marine Attack Squadron 311 Tomcats 45-42 to go undefeated for the season and claim the second half intramural basketball championship at the MORE
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Station Marines learn cocktail tricks
March 30, 2006 — Marines gathered at the station community center to temporarily escape from the burdens of everyday Marine Corps life March 21. For a $10 cover charge, Marines attended the Great Escape’s At-Home Bartending Class sponsored by Semper Fit and taught by James Rudnick, a former bartender and Marine. “The idea for a home bartending class came from my MORE
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Marines patrol playground, enforce fun
March 30, 2006 — Marines and students joined together at Ronald Reagan Elementary School in Yuma, Ariz., in the name of organized outdoor fun March 23-24. For the second year in a row, more than fifty Marines played with and supervised children for a field meet with contests like the tug of war, scooter tag and a rubber chicken relay race. “The Marines were very MORE
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MALS-13 kicks up dust for safety, fun
March 28, 2006 — The Marines of Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 13’s Black Widow Motorcycle and All-Terrain Vehicle club participated in a motorcycle and ATV safety ride March 28 at Senator’s Wash, 25 miles north of Yuma, to promote motorcycle and off-road activity safety and awareness. The event consisted of a street motorcycle group, headed by Chief Warrant MORE
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Station, cab company improve Arrive Alive program
March 26, 2006 — Station and Yuma City Cab officials met March 26 at the Yuma City Cab office on East 30th Street to discuss changes within the cab company that will affect the station’s Arrive Alive program. Gunnery Sgt. Martin Nelson, station safety manager, and Gunnery Sgt. Bourne Huddleston, Marine Aircraft Group 13 ground safety manager, met with Frank MORE
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Military policemen release station’s first canine into adoption
March 23, 2006 — Station military policemen said goodbye to the first dog to be adopted from Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Ariz., through the Law Enforcement Give Away Program March 10. Laika, a 12-year-old Belgium malinois that specialized in explosives detection, retired from her Marine Corps duties after nine years of service to the air station and moved into MORE
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Killers conquer combat dodgeball tournament
March 23, 2006 — Marines gathered at the station Youth Center March 14 for a combat dodgeball tournament sponsored by the Single Marine Program. Nine six-man teams competed in the single-elimination tournament for a chance to take their dodgeball skills to Staples Center in Los Angeles for a West Coast regional tournament and free tickets to an Arena Football MORE
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Station videographer applies skills to business, church
March 23, 2006 — As a man behind the scenes, many people have never seen Sgt. Vince Czyzewski. Anyone who has watched video originating from the station during training sessions or a Marine Corps Birthday Ball has seen the work of Czyzewski, a combat videographer and the station’s Combat Camera video production chief Czyzewski’s videography training began well MORE
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Marines volunteer to honor vets
March 16, 2006 — For two weeks, Marines, war veterans and a handful of construction workers have been continuing work on a park in Yuma, Ariz., that was just an idea eight years ago. The Yuma Armed Forces Park, a park dedicated to honor and revere the sacrifices of all past, present and future veterans, is now in phase two of construction. “We’re building an MORE
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