3/9 raids Yuma’s ranges
April 24, 2009 — Camp Lejeune’s 3rd Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment, assisted the Weapons and Tactics Instructor course in the largest air assault exercise since the 1990s here, April 13.Approximately 500 3/9 Marines were airlifted from Auxiliary Airfield 2 in CH-46 Sea Knights, CH-53 Super Stallions and MV-22 Ospreys and dropped off at Landing Zone Crow, a Yuma MORE
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VMU-3 visits Yuma for Weapons and Tactics Instructor course
April 23, 2009 — The newest Marine unmanned aerial vehicle squadron is training in Yuma with the Weapons and Tactics Instructor course in preparation for their first deployment in 2010.Created September 2008 to relieve deployment rotations from its sister squadrons, VMU-3 arrived in Yuma March 23 and provided aerial support to Marines on the ground with their MORE
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Secretary of Navy recognizes Yuma's MAG-13 with award
April 23, 2009 — Marine Aircraft Group 13 was awarded the Meritorious Unit Commendation by the Secretary of the Navy for superior aviation resources worldwide.The award was announced April 14 in an awards update message sent by Headquarters Marine Corps. According to the award citation, the 1,800 Marines and sailors assigned to MAG-13 and its five subordinate MORE
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Yuma Marine visits Latin America with military baseball team
April 16, 2009 — A Yuma Marine joined the U.S. Southern Command baseball team for their 2nd Annual Baseball Partnership Tour to Latin America to enhance relations with other countries through baseball and community service.Cpl. Benjamin Chido IV, team pitcher and Marine Wing Support Squadron 371 heavy equipment operator, left March 27, 2009, to participate in the MORE
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Corps regionalizes civilian police training
April 16, 2009 — Due to consolidation of the Marine Corps’ civilian police academies into one West Coast and one East Coast location, the final class of station-trained civilian police cadets graduated at the theater here April 16, 2009.Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, Calif., will be the site of the West Coast academy and Camp Lejeune, N.C., will have the East MORE
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WWII vet reflects on years in Corps
April 16, 2009 — They are known as the “Greatest Generation.” They are the source of countless stories of Marine bravery, honor and sacrifice, and one of the few remaining World War II-era devil dogs calls Yuma his second home.Kenneth H. Stevenson, an 84-year-old veteran and winter visitor, first joined the ranks of the Corps in December 1941, after one of the MORE
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Yuma's VMA-311 battles Navy, Air Force birds in Key West
April 9, 2009 — A Yuma-based Harrier squadron traveled to Key West, Fla., April 6 to catch up on some aviation training that has been delayed by repeated deployments to Iraq.Approximately 170 Marines and 10 AV-8B Harriers from Marine Attack Squadron 311 are training for air-to-air combat with the help of both the Navy and Air Force. “Because of the Operation Iraqi MORE
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Yuma's ATV riders urged to tread lightly at sand dunes
April 9, 2009 — Since 2003, roughly 65 off-road deaths have occurred at the Imperial Sand Dunes in California, just 30 miles west of the air station here.The most recent death hit a little closer to home for some Yuma Marines.A Marine with Marine Wing Support Squadron 371 died March 7 after his all-terrain vehicle rolled over him in the dunes.Due to the recent MORE
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Yuma Marine guns down opposition at West Coast shooting competition
April 9, 2009 — After taking top honors in the Western Division Matches, a Yuma Marine is heading to the Marine Corps championship matches at Camp Lejeune, N.C., April 6-24.Chief Warrant Officer 2 Allen Young, station marksmanship training unit officer in charge, earned the West Coast pistol shooter title after outgunning more than 200 other competitors March MORE
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SecNav recognizes MCAS Yuma for pollution prevention efforts
April 9, 2009 — Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma, Ariz., recently won the 2008 secretary of the Navy environmental award for pollution prevention on a non-industrial installation, the Navy announced March 26.Yuma will also be considered for the 2008 secretary of defense environmental award for the same category, competing against the different armed services.“This MORE
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