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May - Mental Health Awareness Month - Reach out for help

May is Mental Health Awareness month and an opportunity to highlight the importance of focusing on the overall health and well-being of individuals and families aboard Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow, California. Mental health is an essential part of everyone’s ability to maneuver through life and the Behavioral Health Section offers myriad programs and classes to provide support for those facing challenges. “Mental health issues are common,” said James Maher, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, BH Section Head...

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Marines with November Company, 4th Recruit Training Battalion, stand around the Molly Marine statue for an award ceremony on Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C. Dec 16, 2020. The Molly Marine award is given to the Marine voted to best exemplify the core values of honor, courage, and commitment. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Michelle Brudnicki) - Marines with November Company, 4th Recruit Training Battalion, stand around the Molly Marine statue for an award ceremony on Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C. Dec 16, 2020. The Molly Marine award is given to the Marine voted to best exemplify the core values of honor, courage, and commitment. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Michelle Brudnicki)

Molly Marine

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 to “free a man to fight”. Molly Marine was the first statue of a woman in uniform, and it was erected on Nov. 10, 1943 in New Orleans, La. This was the year the womens’ reserve was activated as well as the 168th Marine Corps’ birthday. Two more statues were raised, one in 2000 in Quantico Va., where female officers are made, and one in 1999 on Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island...

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Earnest B. Freeman receives a brick from building four during his retirement luncheon at the Paradise Point Officers Club on Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, Oct. 30, 2019. Freeman retired as the evidence custodian, Criminal Investigation Division, Provost Marshals Office, Marine Corps Installations East-MCB Camp Lejeune, with 45 years of combined active duty Marine Corps service and civilian service. - Earnest B. Freeman receives a brick from building four during his retirement luncheon at the Paradise Point Officers Club on Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, Oct. 30, 2019. Freeman retired as the evidence custodian, Criminal Investigation Division, Provost Marshals Office, Marine Corps Installations East-MCB Camp Lejeune, with 45 years of combined active duty Marine Corps service and civilian service.

Earnest B. Freeman: 45 years of dedicated service recognized

“I didn’t choose the Marine Corps, it chose me.” Those words still resonate with one man, 45 years after first enlisting.In 1972, Ernest B. Freeman walked into a recruiting station in Middletown, New York, one morning to enlist in the U.S. Army and walked out as a U.S. Marine Corps enlistee.“I was looking for something, I didn’t necessarily know

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Marine scout snipers with Weapons Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, conduct high angle shooting on Range 10 aboard Marine Corps Base Hawaii April 8, 2015. The training was different from their typical flat level or slight elevation ranges. The high angle is considered anything 30 degrees or greater. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Sarah Dietz) - Marine scout snipers with Weapons Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, conduct high angle shooting on Range 10 aboard Marine Corps Base Hawaii April 8, 2015. The training was different from their typical flat level or slight elevation ranges. The high angle is considered anything 30 degrees or greater. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Sarah Dietz)

Hawaii snipers train in high angle shooting

MARINE CORPS BASE HAWAII - Scout sniper platoon with Weapons Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, conducted high angle live fire training April 8-9, 2015, on top of Ulupau Crater at Range 10 aboard Marine Corps Base Hawaii.

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Marines with Battery and Golf Co., 2nd Battalion, 6th Marines, capture a role-playing enemy within the confines of their shields during a riot control exercise aboard Camp Lejeune, N.C., March 24, 2015. The Marines moved swiftly to pull the enemy back through their formation, then closed back up in a defensive position as one straight line of shields. - Marines with Battery and Golf Co., 2nd Battalion, 6th Marines, capture a role-playing enemy within the confines of their shields during a riot control exercise aboard Camp Lejeune, N.C., March 24, 2015. The Marines moved swiftly to pull the enemy back through their formation, then closed back up in a defensive position as one straight line of shields.

Expeditionary operations; Marines teach non-lethal tactics

The sun is beating down on a large, open field of grass and tangled weeds. Short, deafening blasts cut through the sounds of M203 and M32 grenade launchers firing. Marines charge towards enemy forces behind a moving wall of transparent riot shields, guarding themselves from blue-body practice grenades that are flying towards them.Expeditionary

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VMAQT-1 hosts Airman, trains flying the Marine Corps way

With the help of a few well-trained Marines, one officer has changed his tune from “Into the wild blue yonder,” to “From the Halls of Montezuma,” at least for a while.Air Force Capt. Jason D. Larish traded Air Force blue for olive drab green, joining Marine Tactical Electronic Warfare Training Squadron 1 in October 2014 to begin a three-year

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The final nine Marines representing the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing’s involvement in Afghanistan walk down the flight line at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, N.C., Dec. 6, 2014. The Marines belong to Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 467 stationed at Marine Corps Air Station New River, N.C., and served more than seven months in Afghanistan. - The final nine Marines representing the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing’s involvement in Afghanistan walk down the flight line at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, N.C., Dec. 6, 2014. The Marines belong to Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 467 stationed at Marine Corps Air Station New River, N.C., and served more than seven months in Afghanistan.