Yuma holds new combat-focused Corporal's Course
October 29, 2009 — The first Corporal’s Course at the Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma, Ariz., that uses the revised curriculum mandated throughout the Corps graduated Oct. 23, 2009.The Marine Corps’ Training and Education Command released new materials for command-sponsored Corporal’s Courses June 22, 2009, steering the professional military education course away MORE
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MCCS to send raffle winner to Super Bowl XLIV in Miami
October 29, 2009 — In an attempt to boost attendance this football season, Marine Corps Community Services clubs and restaurants throughout the Corps are offering a chance to win the football fan’s ultimate dream – a trip to the Super Bowl. The MCCS Football Bash will run from Oct. 30 to Dec. 3. During that time, all patrons of MCCS restaurants or clubs can enter a MORE
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Lejeune-based HQ, support Marines train in Yuma for combat roles
October 27, 2009 — In keeping with "every Marine a rifleman," the Marines of Headquarters and Service Company, 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, are preparing themselves here to operate as an infantry company in their upcoming deployment to Afghanistan in the spring of 2010. On top of their normal responsibilities, noninfantry Marines in the infantry units MORE
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Lejeune-based infanty Marines practice helo tactics in Arizona
October 23, 2009 — Gearing up for an approaching deployment to Afghanistan, infantry Marines based out of Camp Lejeune, N.C., took off on a nighttime helicopter raid from the flight line here Oct. 16, 2009.Supported by pilots and aircraft from the Weapons and Tactics Instructors course, Marines of Company A, 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, loaded onto six CH-53 MORE
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Air Force pilot trades in F-15 for Marine F-5 in Yuma
October 22, 2009 — When Air Force Capt. Ryan Corrigan was informed he had been accepted into an exchange program to fly with the Marines for two years, his superiors told him to show up with an open mind. After all, the Marines have a different way of doing things.But after reporting to Marine Fighter Training Squadron 401 three weeks ago from Eglin Air Force Base in MORE
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Yuma Marines awarded for saving life in 2007 crash
October 22, 2009 — Three station Search and Rescue personnel received Air Medals Oct. 14, 2009, for their meritorious in-flight actions, which led to the rescue of a fellow air crewman after a SAR helicopter crash in 2007. Capt. Sean Mitzel, pilot, Master Sgt. Russell Reale, maintenance chief and Petty Officer 1st Class Michael Skelton, corpsman, were the members of MORE
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DoD releases criteria for housing bailouts
October 15, 2009 — The Department of Defense released eligibility criteria Sept. 30, 2009, for the expansion of a program to reimburse its service members and civilian employees who have been forced to relocate and sell their homes at a loss in the current poor economy.Expanded in February 2009 using $555 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the MORE
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Air Raid: 2/7 hits town from helos in Yuma
October 12, 2009 — Marines of E Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, participated in a helicopter-borne raid on a mock Middle Eastern village at the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground on Oct. 12 in anticipation of their upcoming deployment with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit.The company, based out of Twentynine Palms, Calif., is making use of the helicopter MORE
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Twentynine Palms infantry, New River Ospreys team up in Yuma for helo raid
October 12, 2009 — Launching from the flight line here, a platoon of infantry Marines specializing in helicopter raids completed its first exercise from an MV-22 Osprey on Oct. 10, 2009.Taking advantage of the helicopter training in Yuma’s current Weapons and Tactics Instructors course, E Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, is using the robust training MORE
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Tuition Assitance used by only 13% of Corps
October 8, 2009 — 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 MORE
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