News - Dec 2005

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Marines

Archive: December, 2005

Command Element Marines aim for excellence

Looking back on lessons learned in previous deployments, the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit Command Element realized they improve combat capabilities by stepping up their pre-deployment training. The training section of the 24th MEU was tasked with the responsibility of readying Marines whose primary occupational field is anything other than

Super Bowl XLVI at sea

Its Super Bowl Sunday, Marines and Sailors aboard the ship are crammed into offices, gyms, living areas, the chow hall … basically anywhere with a television so they can watch the game. The weather outside is stormy; waves push the ship to and fro. Objects slide on desks, and troops walking through the ship’s passage ways often must brace