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Archive: June, 2010

Major changes for Yuma outlined in Marine Corps' Joint Strike Fighter basing plan June 11, 2010 — If the preferred plan for basing the F-35B Joint Strike Fighter at the air station is approved, major changes are in store for Yuma over the next six years. According to the plan and its anticipated effects, Yuma should expect a 39 percent increase in personnel, a 15 percent increase in airfield operations and a 17 percent increase in airspace and MORE

Exercise Dawn Blitz: Yuma Harriers rise early for future of naval operations June 3, 2010 — A group of Marines returned to the Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma, Ariz., May 28, 2010, after participating in the Marine Corps’ first Exercise Dawn Blitz here. The purpose of the exercise was to demonstrate the newly established guidelines for amphibious assaults, detailed in the Naval Operations Concept 2010, released May 24, 2010. Fifteen MORE

Deployed Yuma Marines from view kids’ graduation live via Web June 3, 2010 — Thanks to a first-time joint effort between station personnel and the local community, four deployed Marine Attack Squadron 311 Marines watched their children’s high school graduations via a live Web broadcast May 28, 2010. At sea in the Pacific Ocean with the 31st and 15th Marine Expeditionary Units, the Marines were still able to be a part of a MORE

In the bag: Yuma Marine documents 23-year career on sea bag June 3, 2010 — Weathered and worn over a 23-year career, one piece of military equipment serves as a record of its owner’s journey through the Corps and around the world. When Master Sgt. Michael B. Snell, Marine Attack Squadron 214 maintenance chief, arrived at his first duty station nearly 24 years ago from 2010, he began logging away his Marine Corps MORE