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Marines SLAC off to prepare for OIF

Even though Lance Cpl. Thomas R. Richardson is an Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran, the fire team leader with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment still claims he lacked some understanding of the Arabic culture. But that’s all changing, thanks to a perspective-broadening course aboard the Coastal Carolina Community College campus here.

Marine shows excellence in leadership

In support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, many Marines fresh out of the School of Infantry are using skills recently learned in training and returning veterans of war at an early stage in their Marine Corps career. Twenty-year-old Cpl. Matt Ingham from Altoona, Pa., is one of these Marines. With no experience in the fleet, every order that came his

Former firefighter off to Iraq

“Contact right, contact right, contact right!” yelled the Marines at first sight of the enemy while patrolling along a hilly treeline. The four three-man mortar teams quickly set up and began pounding the enemy positions. This was not Pfc. Sean O. Currie’s first combat experience on a remote hill in some part of Iraq or Afghanistan, but instead

Smiling faces, loving embraces greet returning heroes

Smiling wives, girlfriends and children waving American flags were among the first sights 1st Lt. Wayne A. Wood and the rest of the Marines of Battery G, 2nd Battalion, 10th Marine Regiment saw at their homecoming celebration here Sept. 15. Battery G’s executive officer left with his unit from Camp Lejeune Feb. 18 as part of the 22nd Marine

Convoy training hones warriors’ skills to perfection

The smell of sweat and gun powder mixes with the odor of burning diesel fuel as the convoy rumbles down the deserted road. Like sardines in a can, Marines line the benches in the back of their seven-ton vehicles. They face outboard, rifles and machine guns at the alert, eyes scanning the horizon. A burst of automatic weapons fire pierces the air,

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