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- Back in the spring,
Headquarters and Service Battalion

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hosted a competition open for
any Marine aboard Quantico.

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The prize: a trip to the
one hundredth anniversary

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of the Battle of Belleau Wood Ceremony

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in Belleau Wood, France.

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We've comprised footage
from the competition,

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the awards ceremony here on Quantico,

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and the anniversary in France

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to give you an inside look
at what this competition

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was all about.

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- [Col. John] The third tier
is to come present the synopsis

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of their work, their effort,
however they wanted to,

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to a group of judges.

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We didn't limit them to
anything but their imagination.

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And these Marines are blowing us away

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with what they came up with.

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(upbeat music)

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- Hi, my name is Lance Corporal White.

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I work with MMSR6.

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And I was with the Belleau
Wood project, Team One.

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The focus of our presentation was

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the forging of the warrior
ethos through Major John Hughes,

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and how that still affects us today.

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- My name is Lance Corporal Davis.

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I would work with MCAF,
and I was on Team Two

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for the Belleau Wood project.

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We had myself dressed as a World War One

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Belleau Wood Marine.

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The other Marine was dressed
as a Fallujah-era Marine.

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And we were talking about
comparing and contrasting

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likes and differences,
as what was back then

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and how it is now.

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And how what happened back then

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formulates to how we do things now.

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- [Offscreen Voice] The
winning team is going to travel

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to Belleau Wood, France in the end of May.

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All five Marines, they
are going to go through

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guided tours with
professional tour guides.

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They are gonna attend
the hundredth anniversary

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of the Battle of Belleau Wood.

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It's an amazing ceremony.

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The Fifth and Sixth
Marines are represented,

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the French are there in droves,

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the drum-and-bugle corps...

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So it's an extraordinary
place and hallowed ground.

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One of the teams is gonna
go participate in that.

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They're also gonna get some time in Paris

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and spend some time with the French Army

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and get some classes at the
French Army Museum in Paris.

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So, it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity

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just to go to Belleau Wood.

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To be a young officer, to be able to

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lead a group of Marines
to that sacred ground,

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and to get the further education
that they're gonna get,

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to see things in the French War Museum,

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like the Hall of Armor, I
think it's a once-in-a-lifetime

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opportunity that I think
people will be lining up

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next year when we do something else.

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- [Narrator] The first-place team

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is comprised of Marines from
Expeditionary Warfare School,

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IPAC, and Manpower and Reserve Affairs.

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They hail from Headquarters Company,

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Tenant Activities Company,

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and Training and Education Company

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of Headquarters and Service Battalion.

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Captain Ryan J. Perez,

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Master Gunnery Sergeant Mario E. Martinez,

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Corporal Monroe Delsuma, Lance
Corporal Shinoa B. White,

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and Lance Corporal Denisha L. Milligan.

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(triumphant music)