Story by Sgt. Frances Candelaria | Regional Command Southwest | 07.22.2014
While most aboard Camp Leatherneck were eating breakfast as the early morning sun began burning the earth in a golden heat wave, turret gunners of Combat Logistics Battalion 7 were already mounting .50 caliber and M240B machine guns inside the turrets of their vehicles, preparing for one of the battalion’s last missions, July 14....
Story by Cpl. Mark Stroud | III Marine Expeditionary Force | 05.06.2012
Marines with Company A, Combat Logistics Battalion 4, conducted a combat logistics patrol along Route Red-West for the first time recently. CLB-4 is assigned to 1st Marine Logistics Group (Forward), I Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward), and was providing tactical logistics support to Forward Operating Base Now Zad, Afghanistan, in addition to several other FOBs and combat outposts....
Story by Cpl. Mark Stroud | 1st Marine Logistics Group | 05.03.2012
Marines with Alpha Company, Combat Logistics Battalion 4, 1st Marine Logistics Group (Forward), conducted a combat logistics patrol along Route Red-West for the first time and provided tactical logistics support to Forward Operating Base Now Zad, April 21-26....
Story by Cpl. Mark Stroud | 1st Marine Logistics Group | 04.06.2012
Marines with 2nd Platoon, Bravo Company, Combat Logistics Battalion 4, 1st Marine Logistics Group (Forward), assisted in demilitarizing Patrol Base Mirmandab, March 23-31....
Story by Cpl. Mark Stroud | III Marine Expeditionary Force | 03.15.2012
Company A, Combat Logistics Battalion 4, completed the largest combat logistics patrol to-date through Helmand province March 12-14....
Story by Cpl. Mark Stroud | 1st Marine Logistics Group | 03.11.2012
Marines with Bravo Company, Combat Logistics Battalion 4, 1st Marine Logistics Group (Forward), conducted a combat logistics patrol in support of counterinsurgency operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan, March 4–7....
Story by Cpl. Michele Hunt | 1st Marine Logistics Group | 03.04.2012
Marines with Motor Transport Company, Combat Logistics Battalion 1, 1st Marine Logistics Group (Forward) made good use of their extra day this leap year providing needed supplies to patrol bases in southern Helmand province, Afghanistan, Feb. 29....
Story by Pfc. Zackary Root | 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division Public Affairs | 12.02.2011
To be successful in war, getting supplies to the troops is paramount. In medieval times armies would lay siege to entire cities, surrounding the walls with their armies for months, preventing any supplies coming in or out. Without supplies like food, medicine, or weapons the opposing Army was essentially neutralized....