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Medically retired Marine Sgt. Janae Piper, looks over her air rifle as her competitors, Air Force Staff Sgt. Seth Pena and Air Force Master Sgt. Daniel Waugh wait for the air rifle competition to begin at the 2015 DoD Warrior Games at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, June 26, 2015. Piper earned the gold medal, Waugh earned the silver medal and Pena earned the bronze medal for the event. - Medically retired Marine Sgt. Janae Piper, looks over her air rifle as her competitors, Air Force Staff Sgt. Seth Pena and Air Force Master Sgt. Daniel Waugh wait for the air rifle competition to begin at the 2015 DoD Warrior Games at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, June 26, 2015. Piper earned the gold medal, Waugh earned the silver medal and Pena earned the bronze medal for the event.

Warrior Games athletes compete in shooting medal rounds

The line whittled down to the medal rounds here yesterday, as Air Force, Army, Marine Corps, Navy and British forces adaptive athletes took part in the air rifle and air pistol shooting competitions during the 2015 Department of Defense Warrior Games.No service branch dominated, and the men and women shot against each other as one.“In shooting,

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April is the month of the Military Child. The Month of the Military Child honors all military children and the daily sacrifices and challenges they make. - April is the month of the Military Child. The Month of the Military Child honors all military children and the daily sacrifices and challenges they make.

Military children being honored

The Marine Corps life not only affects troops but the ones dearest to them.Children of Marines deal with the early mornings, constant moves and the deployment of a parent or parents for months at a time. There are more than 100,000 children sacrificing alongside their parents. The Month of the Military Child, observed in April, honors these

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Recently the Marine Corps underwent another change in its training and education spectrum as Marine Corps Bulletin 1500, in its third iteration, was altered Feb. 20 to enhance the overall quality of operational readiness and the commander’s flexibility in training. The motivation for this set of changes to Marine Corps Bulletin 1500, a comprehensive list of all required annual training, was to optimize available training time so unit commanders can be provided with more flexible training schedules to conduct mission-oriented tasks. - Recently the Marine Corps underwent another change in its training and education spectrum as Marine Corps Bulletin 1500, in its third iteration, was altered Feb. 20 to enhance the overall quality of operational readiness and the commander’s flexibility in training. The motivation for this set of changes to Marine Corps Bulletin 1500, a comprehensive list of all required annual training, was to optimize available training time so unit commanders can be provided with more flexible training schedules to conduct mission-oriented tasks.

Marine Corps Bulletin is adjusted to get ‘rocks out of rucksack’ in training

Recently the Marine Corps underwent another change in its training and education spectrum as Marine Corps Bulletin 1500, in its third iteration, was altered Feb. 20 to enhance the overall quality of operational readiness and the commander’s flexibility in training.The motivation for this set of changes to Marine Corps Bulletin 1500, a comprehensive

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Royal Netherlands Korps Mariniers wait for orders to assault a combat town in Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina on Nov. 7, 2014. This was one of the many training events of Bold Alligator 2014. A large-scale amphibious exercise on the East Coast designed to improve U.S. and allied forces response to a myriad of different crises. - Royal Netherlands Korps Mariniers wait for orders to assault a combat town in Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina on Nov. 7, 2014. This was one of the many training events of Bold Alligator 2014. A large-scale amphibious exercise on the East Coast designed to improve U.S. and allied forces response to a myriad of different crises.