Story by Lance Cpl. Micah Taylor | Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni | 09.04.2024
Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan - In 2023, it was recorded that 27 Marines and sailors lost their lives due to preventable off duty mishaps. On Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Jennifer Ayers, the aquatics director and swim survival skill master trainer, is on a mission to help change these statistics for the better. Finding ways to improve the service members' confidence and......
Story by Airman 1st Class Sydney Franklin | 52nd Fighter Wing | 07.12.2024
I was stuck, completely and utterly stuck. They didn’t cover this obstacle during the pre-race brief. Defeated, I stood on the side of the road holding embarrassment in my hand in the shape of a broken chain. I felt a weird kind of shame standing there on the side of the road, watching other participants pass me....
Story by Sgt. Quentarius Johnson | 1st Marine Corps District | 11.12.2021
U.S. Marine Corps Pfc. Hans Akayni proves hard work and determination are the keys to success. After failing swim qualification, he returned to recruit training to become a Marine....
Story by Tech. Sgt. Brigette Waltermire | 379th Air Expeditionary Wing | 12.04.2020
Military members at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, participated in the German Armed Forces Proficiency Badge test from Nov. 28-Dec. 4, 2020, with more than 30 participants from Germany, France, Italy and other coalition forces, as well as the U.S. Army, Air Force and Navy....
Courtesy Story | 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) | 10.18.2020
5th Special Forces Team conquers Half Ironman
Story by Cpl. Shane Manson | Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island | 09.30.2020
Underwater is one of the few times in people's lives that they aren’t able to breathe; and for those unaccustomed, it can be a frightening situation. On Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, nobody knows this better than the Marine Corps Instructors of Water Survival, or MCIWS, the resident experts in the services’ amphibious roots and traditions....
Story by Lance Cpl. Melissa Ugalde | Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton | 02.11.2020
U.S. Marines with Light Armored Reconnaissance Marine Course 2-20, Light Armored Reconnaissance Training Company, Advanced Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry - West, conducted light armored vehicle swim operations at the Del Mar boat basin on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Feb. 11....
Story by Airman 1st Class Andrew Kobialka | 366th Fighter Wing | 12.03.2019
Airman 1st Class Michael Yoo, 366th Maintenance Squadron avionics backshop technician from Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, recently returned from his first swim competition on a world stage. He was the youngest and only enlisted member from a team of 14 service members from all branches of the Department of Defense on the U.S. swim team to compete at the 2019 CISM Military World Games....
