Story by Cpl. Jesus Sepulveda Torres | Marine Corps Base Hawaii | 07.25.2017
On July 17, 2006, two Marine Corps CH-53E Super Stallion helicopters aided in the voluntary departure of 42 American citizens from the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon....
Story by Cpl. Jesus Sepulveda Torres | Marine Corps Base Hawaii | 06.23.2017
MARINE CORPS BASE HAWAII – Marines with 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment participated in Exercise Bougainville 1-17.2, a two-week exercise beginning on June 12 and ending on June 23, 2017....
Courtesy Story | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Transatlantic Afghanistan District | 06.15.2013
A new, safe and modern road that halves the travel time between the rural town of Nawa and Lashkar Gah, the Helmand province capital, opened to the public in May....
Story by Sgt. Sarah Fiocco | Marine Rotational Force - Darwin | 05.23.2013
A squad-sized enemy element waited in trenches, ready to attack only a few meters away from the Marines of Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, Marine Rotational Force – Darwin. At least that’s what the squad-attack training simulated as the Marines planned their scheme-of-maneuver on the fly in order to eliminate that “enemy” threat, here, May 22....
Story by Sgt. Sarah Fiocco | Marine Rotational Force - Darwin | 05.10.2013
Marines with Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, Marine Rotational Force – Darwin, and soldiers with Delta Company, 5th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, conducted their first bilateral training exercise and sent rounds down range using each other’s weapon systems during a familiarization shoot, here, May 10. During the shoot, Marines fired the Australian soldier’s......
Story by Sgt. Sarah Fiocco | Marine Rotational Force - Darwin | 05.08.2013
More than 60 years ago, a group of Native-American Marines, known as code talkers, used the Navajo language to transmit secret tactical information using radios during war time, leaving the enemy unable to decipher their messages. That’s what Lance Cpl. Tyler Slim’s grandfather, or Cheii, Navajo for grandfather, did during his time in the Marine Corps. Hearing Cheii’s account of the......
Story by Sgt. Sarah Fiocco | Marine Rotational Force - Darwin | 04.21.2013
Approximately 200 Marines with Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, arrived aboard RAAF Base Darwin from Marine Corps Base Hawaii, as part of the second iteration of Marine Rotational Force – Darwin, April 21. As the Marines stepped off a Boeing 737, they were met with a handshake from US Ambassador, Jeffrey Bleich....
Story by Lance Cpl. Matthew Bragg | Marine Corps Base Hawaii | 04.08.2013
Marines put their searching skills to the test during the tracking portion of the Combat Hunter course at Kahuku Training Area, April 8, 2013. The Combat Hunter course is a program designed to teach Marines how to track targets, good or bad, by noticing differences in the environment around them....
