Story by Cpl. Shawn Valosin | U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Europe and Africa | 08.22.2014
Intelligence specialists are familiar with all phases and facets of intelligence operations. Typical duties of intelligence specialists involve the collection, recording, analysis, processing, and dissemination of information or intelligence....
Story by Cpl. Devin Nichols | II Marine Expeditionary Force | 09.25.2013
In the Pickel Meadows of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, approximately 100 Marines from various units within the 2nd Marine Logistics Group trained at the Mountain Warfare Training Center, Bridgeport, Calif., from Aug. 16 to Sept. 13....
Story by Cpl. Timothy Lenzo | Regional Command Southwest | 12.18.2012
Before one Marine started his career in the Marine Corps he was faced with a broken elbow, two surgeries and countless hours of physical therapy. He watched as in an instant his dreams of earning the title United States Marine and deploying to Afghanistan were put in jeopardy....
Story by Lance Cpl. Glen Santy | II Marine Expeditionary Force | 11.28.2012
The holiday season is a busy time for Marines with the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing Band. This season, the band performed at no fewer than 39 Marine Corps birthday ball ceremonies in addition to preparing for one of its biggest concerts of the year....
Story by 2nd Lt. Thomas Morin | 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division | 02.03.2012
It is the dead of night; a frigid breeze sweeps in from the south and 15 soldiers are grouped around a 5,200 lb. up-armored Humvee. Despite the biting cold, sweat drips from every pore soaking their uniforms. Remarkably, motivation stays high, and the Soldiers begin to sing as they struggle to push the Humvee up the next rise....
Courtesy Story | II Marine Expeditionary Force | 05.19.2011
Lt. Col. Benjamin J. Palmer, former commanding officer of the 2nd Low Altitude Air Defense Battalion based out of Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, died as a result of wounds received from enemy small-arms fire in Helmand province, Afghanistan, May 12....
