August 19, 2015 - MARINE CORPS AIR GROUND COMBAT CENTER TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. -- Marines with 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade alongside service members with the British 3rd Commando Brigade and 1 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group executed Large Scale Exercise 15 at Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, California, Aug. 14-20. The exercise is a … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2015
CNO Visits George Washington After Hull-Swap
August 19, 2015 - SAN DIEGO (NNS) -- Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), Adm. Jonathan Greenert, visited the crew of the aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) at Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego Aug. 17. After serving for seven years as the U.S. Navy's only forward-deployed aircraft carrier in Yokosuka, Japan, the George Washington conducted a hull-swap with … [Read more...]
Small-Town Army NCO Shaped by Family, War, Football
FORT MEADE, Md. (Soldiers, Aug. 19, 2015) -- Russ Currie had not yet been born when his uncle, Jerry Lee Patrick, was killed in Vietnam. An icon in his hometown of Eustis, Florida, Patrick was an accomplished football player, who had wanted to join the Army since he was a kid. At the high school's traditional "class night" the week of graduation, the somewhat reserved teenager … [Read more...]
President Proclaims Employer Support of Guard, Reserve Week
WASHINGTON August 18, 2015 — It's National Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve Week, according to a proclamation issued Friday by President Barack Obama. Obama called upon all Americans to join him “in expressing our heartfelt thanks to the members of the National Guard and Reserve and their civilian employers.” Here is the text of the … [Read more...]
Charlie Fink Remembers Vietnam, Operation Starlite 50 Years After
LAKE BUTLER, Florida -- Charles "Charlie" Darrow Fink never imagined that his good friend would be shot dead right next to him during a firefight in Vietnam during Operation Starlite. When Fink enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1964, the United States had increased its involvement in Vietnam. He realized that being deployed to a war was a very likely possibility. However, nothing … [Read more...]