Station emergency services promote family readiness
September 29, 2006 — Emergency response units from station participated in Yuma’s first Emergency Manager’s Outreach Program Preparedness Fair Sept. 29 at the Yuma Palms shopping center parking lot to promote family emergency readiness. The station and local response units each setup static displays, comprised of unit-specific equipment and representatives to answer MORE
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Naval program participants get a taste of station
September 29, 2006 — A group of 12 youth from the U.S. Naval Sea Cadet Corps program, based in El Centro, Calif., visited the station on Sept. 29 to see the inner workings of a Marine base and find out the different occupational options the military has to offer. The cadet corps is an anti-drug and anti-gang program for youths 13-17 and is designed to help participants MORE
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Military healthcare providers donate $5000 to NMCRS
September 28, 2006 — A representative from Triwest Healthcare Alliance donated a check worth $5,000 to the station Navy Marine Corps Relief Society on Sept. 28 at the station NMCRS office. Lynda Salmond, service area director for Triwest Health Care Alliance, arrived on station to meet with Lora O’Hara, NMCRS director, and give her the substantial donation in person. MORE
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Station pharmacy readies for winter visitors
September 27, 2006 — Many units and sections on station are swamped supporting the Weapons and Tactics Instructor course, but other personnel are preparing for the influx of military retirees that come to Yuma for the winter. As the winter months approach, the Branch Medical Clinic pharmacy prepares to take on the challenge known as the winter-visitors season. The MORE
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CLC-16 handles business as usual
September 19, 2006 — When the Weapons and Tactics Instructor course 1-07 began in mid-September, work sections on station began preparing for the influx of Marines. Small and large units each have their responsibilities, but each is prepared for the challenge that comes along with being the busiest air station in the Department of the Navy -- and Combat Logistics MORE
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Yuma Homefront Optimist Club provides military families with computers
September 19, 2006 — A local non-profit organization, dedicated to aiding military families, has undergone a project to help bring armed forces families into the technological age by donating computers to more than 50 military families. The Yuma Homefront Optimist Club is a group of about 20 business owners, teachers, military spouses and other individuals from the MORE
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MACS-1 Marines return home safe and sound
September 11, 2006 — More than 100 Marines from Marine Air Control Squadron 1 returned home to the hugs and handshakes of family, friends and fellow Marines at the Marine Attack Squadron 513 hangar here Monday. The Marines of MACS-1 were able to add a ray of light to a day known for its tragic events. Despite being the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, the MORE
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Gulf War vet to speak on station
September 8, 2006 — A former Marine sergeant and Gulf War veteran will speak at the annual International Prisoner of War and Missing in Action Recognition Breakfast on Friday at the Sonoran Pueblo. Gerald W. Andre, now a U.S. Navy Contractor for Lockheed Martin, was held hostage at an abandoned U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, in August 1990 after the Iraqi Army invaded MORE
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MWSS-371 Marine receives top honors in fuels
September 5, 2006 — A Marine from Marine Wing Support Squadron 371 was selected as the Marine Corps Engineer Association’s 2006 Bulk Fuel Marine of the Year and will receive the award Oct. 12 in Peabody, Mass., at the association’s awards banquet. Cpl. Jonathan Thrasher, a bulk fuel specialist with MWSS-371, received the news about the honor during the squadron’s post MORE
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