Yuma Marines net awards at West Coast hoops tournament
July 29, 2010 — The station’s men’s varsity basketball team finished third in the Marine Corps West Coast Regional Tournament held at the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, July 19-23, 2010. The station had top performances from several of its players throughout the tournament, earning three invitations to All-Marine basketball tryouts, as well as one MORE
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DANTES peaks: College retests to be on student's dime
July 29, 2010 — The military will no longer pay for service members who failed a Defense Activity for Non-Traditional Education funded test beginning in 2011. According to Navy Administrative Message 231/10, released July 3, 2010, service members must pay out-of-pocket to retake College Level Examination Program exams, DANTES Subject Standardization Tests, and MORE
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Corporals course to be promotion requirement
July 29, 2010 — The commandant announced that by 2012, attending a corporals course will be required before Marines can be promoted to sergeant. However, with more than 20 percent of the enlisted force being corporals, the Corps is slated to make a nonresident corporals course that a will allow Marines who don’t have the opportunity to attend a command-sponsored MORE
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Yuma MPs unleash top dogs for predeployment training
July 22, 2010 — In preparation for Combat Logistics Regiment 15’s upcoming deployment to Afghanistan, military police at the Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma, Ariz., trained and familiarized the regiment’s security company with the use of military working dogs in hostile areas July 15, 2010. Although the Camp Pendleton-based regiment, which was already in Yuma for MORE
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Yuma Marines launch amphibious assault on trash
July 22, 2010 — Marines assisted the Yuma community by picking up trash along the Colorado River July 16, 2010, during the station Single Marine Program’s first river cleanup project. Nine station Marines and several SMP personnel, cleaned up more than one mile of the river, collecting more than 70 pounds of refuse ranging from cigarette butts to rebar. “The river MORE
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Yuma airport opens military comfort center
July 22, 2010 — Lance Cpl. Taylor Gibson, Marine Wing Support Squadron 371 expeditionary airfield technician, was one of the first of many service members to enjoy the Yuma International Airport’s military comfort center, which opened July 12, 2010, to accommodate traveling service members. The center has several couches, a flat-panel television, two computers MORE
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Yuma spouses tune up with their own predeployment training
July 22, 2010 — Seven Marine Attack Squadron 211 spouses gathered at the auto hobby shop at the Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma, Ariz., July 16, 2010, to learn about vehicle maintenance as the first of several classes aimed to help spouses take care of themselves when their Marines are on deployment. “It’s to help them feel confident, to handle things when their MORE
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Two Texas natives named Yuma's Marines of year
July 22, 2010 — The motivation to be the best, stand above peers and be recognized is what it takes to be named Marine or Noncommissioned Officer of the Year. For two Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron 1 Marines, that goal has been realized, and it’s just the beginning. Cpl. Jason Rios, aviation logistics information management and support department MORE
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VMA-311 Tomcats to return to Yuma after deployment
July 8, 2010 — Approximately 80 Marines and sailors from Marine Attack Squadron 311 are scheduled to return July 8, 2010 from a seven-month deployment to Japan, where they supported the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit. While overseas, the squadron participated in several training events including exercises Foal Eagle, Cobra Gold and Balikatan. The exercises took MORE
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Walking a day in their boots: Yuma's MALS-13 spouses taste Marine life
July 8, 2010 — Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 13 held its first Jane Wayne Day here June 25 to give Marine spouses and dependents a hands-on experience of Marine training. More than 20 MALS-13 spouses and their families spent the day learning and doing what Marines do, from sparring with Marine Corps martial arts to shooting weapons on an indoor simulator. MORE
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