Story by Sgt. Shannon Doherty | 6th Marine Corps District | 12.09.2021
Future Marine, Blake Napper has lost over 25 pounds in order to be able to enlist into the Marine Corps at U.S. Marine Corps Permanent Contact Station Auburn, Recruiting Station Montgomery, in Alabama. Napper is a student at Auburn High School and is originally from Carrollton, Georgia. He is scheduled to begin recruit training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina in......
Story by Sgt. 1st Class Brent Powell | 76th Operational Response Command | 09.19.2020
FORT MCCOY, Wisconsin - Joining the Army is something few people in the world will ever do, and even fewer will have the opportunity to play football for a top ranked Southeastern Conference college team, but one person here has done both and his list of life achievements are far from over. Army Reserve Spc. Javiere Mitchell, a chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear specialist and......
Story by Franklin Fisher | Fort Benning Public Affairs Office | 05.15.2019
FORT BENNING, Ga. – If Fort Benning ever faces an emergency where it might need extra help from local governments and emergency responders, it’ll be able to ask that help from numerous area communities – and in turn give it if called upon – under a mutual aid agreement signed here May 14....
Story by Petty Officer 2nd Class Wyatt Anthony | Navy Public Affairs Support Element, Det. Northwest | 11.11.2017
AUBURN, Wash. – Thousands of people lined Main Street in Auburn to honor and pay respect to service members and veterans during Auburn’s 52nd annual Veteran’s Day Parade, Saturday, Nov. 11....
Story by Spc. Sarah Anwar | 304th Public Affairs Detachment | 11.05.2016
Story by Spc. Sarah K. Anwar AUBURN, Wash. -- “Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.” These words of Lebanese-American author and poet, Kahlil Gibran illustrate the effect music can have on veterans, current military members, and their families....
Story by Petty Officer 2nd Class Jacob G. Sisco | Navy Public Affairs Support Element, Det. Northwest | 11.05.2016
AUBURN, Wash. – The city of Auburn held their 51st annual Veterans Day parade, Nov. 5.
Story by Spc. Sarah Anwar | 304th Public Affairs Detachment | 11.05.2016
Story by Spc. Sarah K. Anwar AUBURN, Wash., - The echoes of rain against the pavement and cheers of the spectators permeated the air as the Joint Base Lewis-McChord’s Military Jeepers rolled on by in the Auburn Veterans Day Parade, Saturday, November 5....
Story by Cpl. Janessa Dugan | Marine Corps Installations Pacific | 01.07.2016
Humvees crunch over a gravel road, bounding over bumps and dips before halting in a column facing a steep, distant, mountain. Marines had arrived at the staging area where they would prepare to conduct night-fire engagements. The sun set deep behind the mountain’s peak and the muzzle flash of weapons fire illuminated the otherwise blackness of night while machine gunners mounted on Humvees......
