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U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Roger Turner, III Marine Expeditionary Force (III MEF) commanding general, addresses key media representatives at Camp...
U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Noah Uhrbrock, a calibration technician assigned to Intermediate Repair Company, 3rd Maintenance Battalion, 3rd Marine...
U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Maj. Sael Garcia, sergeant major of 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, performs ammunition can lifts during the combat fitness test on...
U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Stephen Storch, a section chief with 2nd Battalion, 10th Marines, forward deployed with 3rd Marine Division as part of...
U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Kiomara Roybal, military police officer, Provost Marshal’s Office, Marine Corps Base Camp Blaz, apprehends a simulated...
On Monday, July 28, the Government of Guam honored U.S. Marine Corps Brigadier General (Brig. Gen.) and Delegate Vicente “Ben” T. Blaz, a Guam native and the first CHamoru Marine to achieve the rank of general officer in the U.S. Armed Forces, by renaming Guam Route 3 as “Brigadier General Ben Blaz Memorial Highway.”
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On June 7, Sims was shopping in American Village when he and another Marine, LCpl Ryland Sawyer, decided to walk by a nearby beach. During that walk, they noticed a local Japanese woman slip from the concrete barriers that break up the waves and fall headfirst down an approximately 15-foot drop. Sims did not hesitate to spring into action.
That 7.8 magnitude earthquake, on April 25, 2015, was recorded as the most devastating in Nepal’s history. Killing almost 9,000 people, injuring tens of thousands, and destroying hundreds of thousands of buildings. The earthquake spanned 120 kilometers long and 80 kilometers wide, leaving much of the country in ruins. Shortly thereafter, the U.S. responded to Nepal’s request for assistance. Joint Task Force 505 was formed, employing the skillsets of 900 service members from the U.S. Armed Forces.
Iwakuni EOD officer transports training material to CATC Camp Fuji by U.S. Army helicopter.
Serianthes nelsonii is a tree species found only on Guam and Rota. The CHamoru name for the Serianthes tree on Guam is Håyun lågu, meaning "wood of the north" or "foreign wood," and in Rota, Trongkon guåfi, meaning "fire tree." Specimens were first collected in the late 1800s and again in 1918 by Peter Nelson, from whom the species was described by Elmer D. Merrill. Although there is no remaining knowledge of traditional uses of the tree in CHamoru culture, early navigator Louis Claude de Freycinet listed Håyun lågu as a tree suitable for timber in his travel journals in the 1800s. Given the tree’s full stature and strength, it would have been suitable for shelter construction or canoe-building. In 1987, Serianthes nelsonii was listed as endangered by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service due to its rarity and threats to its survival.
In 2023, it was recorded that 27 Marines and sailors lost their lives due to preventable off duty