JANUARY 15, 2021 - Headquarters and Support Battalion, Marine Corps Installations Pacific – Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. Butler, Marines conducted a four-week-long Corporals’ Course, Dec. 18 - Jan. 14, on Camp Foster. Corporals’ course provided new noncommissioned officers with the education and leadership skills necessary to lead Marines. The program of instruction … [Read more...]
Pendleton Marines Jump Out Perfectly Good Airplane
JANUARY 14, 2021 - Marines with Air Delivery Platoon, Landing Support Company, 1st Transportation Support Battalion, 1st Marine Logistics Group, coordinated a parachute operation at Drop Zone Basilone to refresh their Marines on low-level static line jumps and aerial resupply. 1st TSB invited other Pendleton units to participate in the training event, enabling Marines with … [Read more...]
New Chapter in USMC Support to Presidential Helicopter
JANUARY 12, 2021 - Fleet Readiness Center East (FRCE) marked the end of an era when artisans recently boxed up the last T58-GE-400B presidential helicopter engine and shipped it out to the Marines who provide safe and timely transportation of the President of the United States. The current version of the presidential helicopter FRCE supports, the VH-3D Sea King, is scheduled … [Read more...]
Molly Marine Recruits Women
JANUARY 11, 2021 - Seventy seven years ago, the statue known as ‘Molly Marine’ was originally commissioned by Marine Technical Sgt. Charles Gresham, a recruiter, in hopes to increase enlistment of females into the military during World War II. At that time, American service men needed to be out in battle. Women were beginning to join and take over their jobs on the home front … [Read more...]
USNCC Pilot Program Set to Launch January 2021
JANUARY 8, 2021 - The newly established United States Naval Community College (USNCC) is launching a pilot program this month with nearly 600 students from the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard participating in the first phase of the program, serving as a template for future USNCC students. Northern Virginia Community College, the University of Arizona, the University of … [Read more...]