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VOLUME 74 EDITION 9 CAMP LEATHERNECK, AFGHANISTAN

Task Force Leatherneck transfers to 1st Marine Division SGT. JACOB HARRER 1st Marine Division (Forward)

The 2nd Marine Division (Forward) transferred authority of Task Force Leatherneck to 1st Marine Division (Fwd.) during a brief ceremony, here, Feb. 25.

Brig. Gen. Lewis A. Craparotta, commanding general of 2nd Marine Division (Fwd.), relinquished command to Maj. Gen. Da-

vid H. Berger, commanding general of 1st Marine Division (Fwd.).

Task Force Leatherneck is the ground combat element of Regional Command (Southwest), covering Helmand and Nimroz provinces.

In the past year, Craparotta, said his division’s focus was conducting populationcentric counterinsurgency, which meant living among the people and spreading out

the forces.

In addition, he stressed the importance of partnered operations.

“That’s how we developed the (Afghan National Security Forces), we lived with them, we ate with them and we operated with them every day,” said Craparotta.

“The young Marines set the example to the ANSF and that’s how we got them out there operating among the population. We gave

them confidence and that’s how we accelerated their development.”

When Craparotta took command in March 2011, 1st Marine Division (Fwd.), then led by Brig. Gen. Joseph Osterman, had developed a plan to dismantle the insurgency and interdict the route from the south, at Bahram Chah, near the Pakistan border.

According to Craparotta, 2nd Marine Division (Fwd.)

executed the plan, and as a result, the insurgency was unable to launch a spring offensive and only able to project a diminished fighting season, as compared to the one in 2010.

A second element of the campaign involved earning the trust and confidence of the Afghan people and opening up the freedom of movement opportunities for the citizens.

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GARMSIR DISTRICT, AFGHANISTAN

Photo by Cpl. Reece Lodder

Marine Lance Cpls.

Ryan Snyder, team leader, and David Lambert, mortarman, assigned to the 81 mm mortar platoon, Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, talk while providing security from their defensive position as the sun sets during Operation Shahem Tofan (Eagle Storm) here, recently.

CPL. REECE LODDER

Regimental Combat Team 5

The thunderous clap of lowflying helicopters reverberates off an endless desert landscape.

Inside the mechanical fortress, rows of Afghan Border Police and Marines stare out the open back hatch, calmly watching the wilderness rapidly retract beneath them.

Hazy brown clouds explode skyward, masking the helicopters as they descend into the dust.

Shadowy figures emerge and rush into a security cordon as the rotor wash dissipates. Within moments, they’ve established communication with their now distant headquarters.

Any thoughts of the showy entrance quickly fade as members of the partnered force pick up bulky packs and begin moving to their next position. A laborious hike leads them to a shallow bowl carved out of a sand dune, their patrol base during Operation Shahem Tofan, Feb. 10 through 13.

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In the barren Registan Desert near the former Forward Operating Base Rhino — the first U.S. position established in Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom — ABP and Marines with Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, scoured dusty highways for smugglers and insurgents moving across the eastern desert into Helmand province.

The ABP’s mission was a shift from their current assignment in Garmsir, where they keep watch over the district’s southern population centers.

Under the coalition mentorship, they are returning to their core capability of interdicting insurgent activity across Helmand’s border. This mission is one of the most challenging among those of the Afghan National Security Forces, said Capt.

Robert Murray.

“The ABP are the frontiersmen of the desert … they go where no Afghan or coalition forces have gone before,” said Murray, the officer in charge of the Border Advi-

sor Team 2 in support of 3rd Bn., 3rd Marines. “They’re becoming Afghanistan’s force in readiness for securing the untouched parts of Helmand province as its city centers expand outward.”

As the two heliborne elements flew southeast into the desert, an armored convoy moved into eastern Garmsir under the cover of darkness. When the sun rose on the operation’s first full day, the partnered forces covered three parallel objectives.

At their defensive positions, the ABP followed the Marines’ examples, digging foxholes to shield themselves from the chill of desert winds and incessant sandstorms.

Catching the last strain of bitter cold before the arrival of spring, they began working through a cycle of patrolling and posting security at their defensive position, breaking the grind only to catch a moment’s rest.

In both daylight and at night, the partnered team set out in search of criminals. The Marines worked to establish a pattern of

life in the unfamiliar area, collecting census information and biometrically enrolling travelers.

From the seats of all-terrain vehicles, their ABP counterparts spotted traffic from afar and sped off to search and question the passersby.

Capt. Jason Armas, the commanding officer of Weapons Company, said the ABP’s willingness to excel during the mission was evidence of their growth into competent soldiers.

“A couple of years ago, they weren’t capable of doing sustained operations in an austere environment like this,” he said.

“Now, they’re grasping the ideas we’ve given them. They’re willing to go out on their own … they aren’t hamstrung in proximity to Marines.”

Long before they took to the desert, the ABP took an active role in the planning process.

“The Marines won’t always be here, so we’re learning how to plan and conduct operations on SEE OPERATION 7A

Backbone of Corps reminded to stiffen up SGT. RACHAEL MOOR MOORE

2nd Marine Logistics G Group

The rank of sergean sergeant is one off the h oldest ld ranks k iin the Marine Corps, and those who wear it are considered to be the backbone of the Corps.

Sergeants are responsible for supervising and leading their Marines, as well as acting as a liaison between junior Marines and staff non-commissioned officers and officers.

Col. Mark R. Hollahan, the commanding officer for Combat Logistics Regiment 27, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, brought the sergeants of the regiment together for a period of military education, Feb. 15, aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune.

“We’ve got some challenges within the MLG,” expressed Hollahan. “I need your help.”

Hollahan discussed topics such as sexual assault, hazing, professionalism and looking out for one another, during the brief.

“As sergeants, you know more than we know,” he added. “You are down there with the Marines. You know what is going on.”

Sexual assault is a familiar topic within the Corps, and Hollahan is relying on the sergeants to help spread the word. “(The junior Marines) listen to you,” he said. “Talk to them about sexual assault, and be that guy or that gal who tells them about it. Most of all, be the example. Walk the walk, and talk the talk. Grow them up to be like you.”

The Marine Corps recently published a new order on hazing, and the 2nd MLG leaders want to ensure it’s being enforced.

“You supervise at work, at the barracks and during field day,” Hollahan told the sergeants. “When you see (hazing), nip it in the bud.”

The other topics were discussed to make sure the Corps’ high standards are upheld as Marines return from Afghanistan.

Hollahan continued by asking the sergeants to police those redeployed Marines and help guide them back to SEE BACKBONE 4A

PATROL BASE HABIB, AFGHANISTAN

2nd Battalion, 4th Marines charge Alekhine’s Gun STAFF SGT. ROBERT STORM Regimental Combat Team 6

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Together with their Afghan National Army partners, the Marines and sailors from 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment conducted operation Alekhine’s Gun in Musa Qal’eh District, Afghanistan.

The “Magnificent Bastards,” as the Marines of 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines are known, launched a heliborne and motorized night raid into areas suspected of housing improvised explosive device production training camps and drug running operations. The raid was intended to disrupt these operations and search for high value personnel.

“We used our night vision and speed to surprise them,” said 1st Sgt. Adam Bala, Company G first sergeant. “We obviously caught them off guard, there was some initial resistance but we overcame it quickly.”

During the operation, the Marines seized a deserted police compound as a command post and then searched all buildings in the city to find

Photo by Staff Sgt. Robert Storm

Sgt. Carlos Zuniga, squad leader, checks in with his unit, a part of 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, recently. The Marines pushed through the city of Shah Karez and searched every building for explosives and drugs. weapons caches. The speed and timing of the initial push was used to confuse and disrupt insurgents from effectively counter attacking. Several enemy fighters abandoned their weapons

and fled. Some of them attacked the Marines with indirect fire but friendly forces quickly overwhelmed them.

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Traffic violations aboard Camp Lejeune

MAN ON THE STREET During your deployment, was there a ritual, custom or habit that you or your Marines would do before stepping off on a mission?

“Our team leaders would gather up, do a fist pump and tell each other ‘see you on the other side.’”

Sgt. Robert Williamson

2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division Chadbourn, N.C.

“I told myself that I would get hit, just to prepare myself for the worst, and then smoke a cigarette.”

Sgt. Darrel Elliott

5th Battalion, 10th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division Kenbridge, Va.

This graph represents traffic violations and driving while intoxicated / driving under the influence refusals for Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, Feb. 22 through Feb. 24.

Traffic violations are defined as: driving while license revoked; speeding in excess of 15 mph or more; traffic crashes; seatbelt, cellular telephone and motorcycle personal protective equipment violations.

Source: Command Inspector General’s Office for Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune

“All I did was clear my mind and tune in to what my leaders would say, and did what I was told to do.”

Lance Cpl. Ramesh Somwaru

Company C, Headquarters Battalion, 2nd Marine Division Schenectady, N.Y.

MARADMIN: FY12 MMPR/MMSB COMMAND VISIT SCHEDULE Sergeants and above are encouraged to attend the Marine Manpower Promotions Branch and Marine Manpower Support Branch command visit next month as an opportunity for professional development and education.

The MMPR and MMSB visit will provide professional military education on promotions, fitness reports, master brief sheets, official military personnel file and enlisted career counseling. The visits will be conducted at the following locations from March 5 through 8.

Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point March 5 at 9 a.m. and 1 p.m.

Station Theater Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune

“All I did before a mission was pray.”

March 6 at 9 a.m. and 1 p.m.

Base Theater MCAS New River March 7 at 9 a.m. and 1 p.m.

Station Theater Camp Johnson March 8 at 8 a.m.

Staff Noncommissioned Officer Academy The staff recommends Marines review their OMPF prior to attending the briefs.

For more information, call Master Sgt. Luther C. Gibbs at 703-784-3991 or by e-mail at luther.gibbs@usmc.mil.

NOTICE TO KNOX COVE RESIDENTS IN TARAWA TERRACE HOUSING: Due to recent inclement weather and unforeseen soil conditions, completion of the Bougainville Road project has been delayed. Although it was scheduled to be completed March 2, the current road closure will be in effect until March 16. As a reminder, the closure of Bougainville Road requires all residents of Knox Cove (E-8 and E-9 housing) to enter and exit Knox Cove via Camp Johnson. The gate at Knox Cove (near Bell Fork Road immediately adjacent to the foot bridge over Highway 24) will continue to remain open from 5 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday during this period for contractor access. Residents of Knox Cove may use the Knox Gate during this time. The Knox Gate will again be closed after Bougainville Road is re-opened and all Knox Cove residents can again use the TT2 gate.

Lance Cpl. Allenmichael Brown

Combat Logistics Battalion 6, Combat Logistics Regiment 2, 2nd Marine Logistics Group Canton, Ohio

“Right before we’d head out, I’d grab the dirt on the ground and rub it in my hands, and then I would bump rifles with my buddies.”

Cpl. Alex Keobounpheng

1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division Minneapolis

Commanding Officer, Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune Col. Daniel J. Lecce Marine Corps Installations East Public Affairs Officer Nat Fahy MCB Camp Lejeune Public Affairs Officer 1st Lt. Nicole Fiedler nicole.fiedler@usmc.mil MCB Camp Lejeune Public Affairs Chief Staff Sgt. Kristin S. Bagley kristin.bagley@usmc.mil Publisher James M. Connors jim.connors@pilotonline.com Managing Editor Ena Sellers ena.sellers@pilotonline.com Assistant Managing Editor Amy Binkley amy.binkley@pilotonline.com

Piney Green Road jogging trail partially closed for construction A 400-meter section of the Piney Green Road jogging trail from the gravel parking lot at the intersection of Sneads Ferry Road (physical training assembly area) to the first footbridge is closed off for utility and road work in that area until Fall 2012. The closure will impact use of the physical fitness course as it encompasses the pull-up bars and the starting point for the physical fitness test threemile course. Additionally, the parking lot will be closed to personal vehicles. The remaining two and a quarter miles of jogging trail north of this footbridge that ends near the Piney Green Gate will remain open for PT.

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SRE KALA, AFGHANISTAN

Marines sweep uncharted areas of KhanNeshin during Operation Highland Thunder CPL. ALFRED V. LOPEZ Regimental Combat Team 5

A large plot of austere terrain in the southern portion of Khan-Neshin District is home to local farmers who make a living growing crops far from the more developed districts of southern Helmand province.

The villages of Sre Kala and Paygel can be found among this austere terrain, along with evidence of an insurgency whose members have moved from northern districts to escape the growing reach of Afghan National Security Forces.

Until recently, the hundreds of kilometers of desert and marshland terrain in this area of Helmand’s southernmost district were previously untouched by Afghan or coalition forces. Marines and sailors of 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion and Company I, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, swept through 324 square kilometers of southern KhanNeshin during Operation Highland Thunder, Feb. 15 through 22.

The clear part of the ongoing Regimental Combat Team 5 winter offensive, Operation Tageer Shamal, was conducted to prepare the area for follow on counterinsurgency operations by Afghan forces.

The Helmand Afghan Border Police will soon join their Marine counterparts to begin partnered operations around Sre Kala and Paygel, further extending the southern reach of Afghan and coalition forces.

The addition of the ABP will aid coalition efforts to curb insurgent drug and weapons trafficking activity in the area.

“This area is pretty large,” said Sgt. Jared Carlson, a squad leader with Company A, 1st LAR. “There’s a lot of enemy activity… You can tell by the atmosphere (in the villages).”

Due to logistical constraints, Afghan forces regard this segment of the Helmand River, which extends to Dishu Ferry, as their southernmost area of influence in the province. The establishment of two new patrol bases in Sre Kala and Paygel will further strengthen their ability to operate in this area of Khan-Neshin.

“The number one thing we’re doing is disrupting the enemy to set the conditions for the arrival of the Afghan Border Police,” said Capt.

Sean Williams, the Company A commander, 1st LAR. “We’re doing that by conducting a lot of dismounted patrols in the green zone,

where everybody lives.”

After establishing Patrol Bases Sre Kala and Paygel, Marines with 1st LAR led the operation on foot, using dismounted patrols to sweep for insurgent activity, weapons and drug caches.

Mobile units of the battalion set up blocking positions and vehicle checkpoints to catch insurgents attempting to flee the area, while Company I, 3rd Bn., 3rd Marines, conducted helicopter inserts to disrupt insurgent freedom of movement.

“We want to get (the ABP) established here, so they have the ability to be able to push west,” said Williams. “Going into the villages, collecting biometrics data, getting to know the elders, getting to know the lay of the land is going to help set them up for success.”

“We want to get them here and have something for them to fall in on,” explained Williams. “It’s always easier when there’s a baseline already established.”

The terrain presented uncomfortable obstacles during numerous daylong Photo by Cpl. Alfred V. Lopez patrols. Marines treaded through waist-deep canals, Lance Cpl. Brandon Mann, a dog handler with Company A, 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, and marched through knee- helps Sgt. Guillermo Floresmartines, an assistant squad leader with Company A, 1st Light Armored high patches of mud, aver- Reconnaissance Battalion, out of a canal during a patrol, Feb. 16. aging 10 kilometer treks on drugs and IED components.

“Being able to find the a daily basis.

“The terrain in our previ- enemy’s tools of the trade is ous area of operations was a a great victory,” explained lot more forgiving,” said 1st Carlson. “Hopefully, it’s Lt. Gil Barndollar, a platoon keeping this area safe and commander with Company helping it progress, especially A, 1st LAR. “Here, the big- with the ABP coming in.”

Marines with 1st LAR gest challenge is the canals … They’re a lot deeper and will continue to strengthen wide. We have very little their positions at Sre Kala and Paygel in anticipation choice but to cross them.”

To avoid enemy ambushes of follow-on operations with and improvised explosive de- the Helmand ABP. The partvice attacks, Marines avoided nered forces look to mirror crossing the makeshift bridges the steady progress made by built by locals and other well their counterparts in northern districts, as Marine forces traveled routes.

“During an overnight gradually shift into an adviPhoto by Cpl. Alfred V. Lopez outpost, one of our Ma- sory role and the ABP take Lance Cpl. Marcos Castelan, a light armored vehicle crewman with Company rines was carrying his (over- the lead in counterinsurgency A, 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, wades through a canal during night) pack along with an operations. a patrol, Feb. 16. electronic countermeasure device while crossing a canal,” recalled Barndollar.

“He got off balanced and fell back into the water … everything in his pack got wet. As soon as we got to our (observation post), we had to dry all his things and keep him warm to avoid hypothermia.”

Regardless of the inherent difficulties presented by the terrain, Company A Marines found multiple caches during their foot patrols through the muddy marshland and seemingly endless desert.

These caches contained several AK-47s and RPK medium machine guns recently used against coalition forces, more than 3,000 7.62 mm rounds for the weapons,

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Training clerks ensure Afghan soldiers, police get paid PETTY OFFICER 3RD CLASS MONIQUE LAROUCHE

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Photo by Cpl. Ed Galo

Marines and members of the Afghan National Army sit together and enjoy lunch at the dining facility aboard Forward Operating Base Delaram II. The senior leadership and staff of Regimental Combat Team 6 and the ANA 2nd Brigade have lunch together once a week to build their partnership other, discuss current events and share experiences.

Marines, Afghan Army share lunch, develop way ahead CPL. ED GALO Regimental Combat Team 6

Every Thursday at noon, three tables at the dining facility on Forward Operating Base Delaram II are reserved for the combined staffs of the Afghan National Army and Regimental Combat Team 6.

In an ever-continuing effort to build trust and collaboration with the ANA, the leadership of RCT-6 has weekly lunches with them.

“It alternates every week between the coalition (mess) hall and the ANA (mess) hall,” said Capt. Charles Arvisais, executive officer for the brigade adviser team, RCT-6.

“We do it to build relationships and strengthen our partnerships between the RCT and ANA of 2nd Brigade.”

The two units have been having the weekly lunches since the beginning of the year and the time spent to-

gether creates interesting topics of conversation.

“We talk about current issues or topics,” Arvisais continued. “More than anything, we get to know each other. But it’s not always just about business either. We talk about anything and keep it casual.

“It helps the mission out here. Having a strong relationship builds confidence with the ANA,” Arvisais added. “If they trust us, we can help them build their army and government.”

According to Capt.

Matthew Halton, adjutant, RCT-6, the role of the regimental staff is to provide outside perspective and Marine Corps experience to situations the brigade is facing.

“We additionally provide enabling resources to the adviser team that would help them in supporting the mission of the brigade,” Halton said. “It is not the role of the regimental staff to solve the

problems of the brigade and tell them how to accomplish the mission, but to lend assistance when requested in developing solutions the brigade can support and execute with their own resources and personnel.”

Halton also believes the lunches help with understanding and accomplishing the mission.

“The direct interaction between the commanders and staffs during these meals greatly assists in the understanding of the mission at hand,” Halton said. “Hearing the challenges the brigade faces and the system structures they must operate within provides insight into procedures very different than our own. However, knowing that a self-sustaining and operational brigade is the goal of this development, being able to view and understand the vantage point of the brigade is critical to how we execute our role in their success.” BACKBONE FROM 1A the garrison lifestyle.

Hollahan then took the time to thank the sergeants for the job they’ve been doing thus far.

“You are doing a great job. I just need your help with these few issues” he concluded.

“You’re doing phenomenal stuff and a large amount of it. We could not do what we do at the MLG without you.”

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A one-day financial course was recently offered to Afghan financial clerks by a joint pay assessment team, consisting of Army, Marine and civilian fiscal officers from Task Force Leatherneck.

“This is a basic-level introductory (class),” said Army 1st Lt. Michael Caruso, an officer for the pay assessment team, Regional Command Southwest, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward).

But, Caruso said the course is more than simple accounting. Topics covered included payroll processing, records keeping and auditing.

“We explain their pay charts and bonuses. They can begin to understand if a problem exists, and the steps they can take to address it,” Caruso said.

Paying more than 200,000 members in the NATO-led Afghan National Security Forces, which comprises the Afghan National Army, the Afghan National Police and the Afghan Border Police, can be a challenging process in Helmand. Lack of infrastructure in the province results in very few banks or roads, so consequently, managing cash over long distances can produce, at best mistakes, and, at worst, fraudulent practices, the pay assessment team cautions.

For Afghan soldiers and police to get paid, each must fill out a time-and-incident sheet, which is sent to the nearest provincial police headquarters. After a series of approvals, funds are released and sent to either the Afghan member’s bank via electronic-funds transfer, or to a “humantrusted” agent. The agent then physically travels to each of the forward operating posts in order to pay soldiers or police in cash.

Although Afghan financial clerks have been responsible for pay in the past, the system has not had adequate checks and balances, such as properly tracking funding, equipment and services. Incorporating a sound pay system is part of the long-term plan for sustaining the Afghan National Security Forces and Afghanistan as a whole.

The first step toward a sound system is properly training the clerks.

The one-day class is not mandatory, but encouraged; while enrollment in a formal,

eight-week training course is offered to participants who do attend.

“The formal training gives more instruction and a continuing partnership with the financial organization to make them better,” explained Daniel Watson, a civilian financial adviser for the Afghan National Army’s 215th Corps.

“If they come out of the one-day (class) saying ‘I want more’ then that is one of our success factors,” Watson said.

The financial classes are an effort to educate Afghan soldiers and police on what to expect with their pay and benefits as a start to establishing a reliable pay system.

“Those types of internal controls just make sure people are paid the right amount and on time,” Watson said.

“It’s best for (the financial clerks) to have training from a fiscal stand point,” said Caruso, adding that interest among the clerks is rising. He said attendance is up from four to 11 participants for this second class held in a two-month period.

“Today was a good meeting,” said Gul Rasul, a financial officer for the Afghan Border Police. “The reason I am here is (the instructors) are our American friends.

They are financial officers and we learn from them.”

Rasul was encouraged to attend the one-day class by his financial mentor Staff Sgt. Jeremiah Fisher, a personnel adviser for the 6th Zone Afghan Border Police.

“My biggest responsibility is ensuring the Afghans are maintaining their accountability correctly, which directly affects the (Afghan Border Police) finance section,” said Fisher.

Fisher explained that the finance section allocates money for salaries per the Afghan personnel rosters, in accordance with the time-and-incident sheets. The personnel section ensures their reports are accurate and submitted on time so that the soldiers and police are being paid correctly and on time.

“As a mentor, I oversee this process, ensure that it is being done correctly, and provide input where needed,” Fisher said.

“The Marines have done a great job,” Watson said, adding the financial course in Lashkar Gah will help build the Afghan fiscal organization to move toward continued success. Watson also said that training and education is important to the future of Afghan police and military forces.

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Afghan students graduate Basic Generator Operator, Maintenance course SGT. LAURA BONANO Regional Command Southwest

Nineteen Afghan soldiers and police graduated from the Basic Generator Operator and maintenance course taught at Joint Sustainment Academy Southwest, Feb. 20.

The eight-day course teaches the skills necessary to run and maintain generators used to power military and security operations. Marine instructors as well as Afghan instructors led the class in a joint effort.

Lance Cpl. Elbridge Barnard is an instructor at the academy and said even though the class is short, it is jam packed with information. The students are taught how to do preliminary checks on the generators as well as how to fix problems caused from pulled wires or other defects in the systems.

Part of Barnard’s job is to purposely disable the generator and question the students on how to fix it.

“Most of these guys are mechanically inclined and they have a desire to learn,” said Barnard. “I like sharing the knowledge that I have and I’m proud of the students.”

Mohammad Ismail,

with the 444 Special Forces unit of the Afghan National Army, was the first student to receive his graduation certificate. He was also the class honor graduate.

Ismail said his father and brother were mechanics and he credits that to his success in the course.

He said if the students study hard and learn, they can contribute their newfound abilities to Afghanistan as a country.

“The class is very important to the students and especially to the ANA,” said Ismail. “It will be extremely important not only for now, but for the future as well.”

Ismail plans to return home to teach his fellow Afghans the skills he has learned. He said the responsibility on his shoulders is large but in order for Afghans to play a bigger role in the future of Afghanistan, he must bear the load.

Ismail will return to Kabul with a graduation gift containing an extensive set of mechanic’s tools. The gift was given to Ismail during the ceremony. It will help him accomplish the goal of passing on his experiences from the class with other Afghans when he returns home.

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Georgian soldiers from Company C, 23rd Light Infantry Battalion honed their combat lifesaving skills at a mass casualty operation during the battalion’s mission rehearsal exercise at Joint Multinational Readiness Center, Hohenfels, Germany, Feb. 21.

During the training scenario, the Georgians gave medical assistance and evacuation support to local villagers, who had just been involved in a head-on vehicle collision.

“This operation allowed the Georgian medics to practice lifesaving intervention for trauma patients,” said Petty Officer 2nd Class Thomas Rathbun, an observer controller at the exercise. “It also tested the company’s ability to handle mass casualties. The practice of mass casualty evacuations in not something that is done every day. The more they practice the better they will get at it. It’s like muscle memory.”

According to Sgt. Michael Waters, an observer controller at the exercise, the Georgians arrived on the scene within 13 minutes of the accident and, once they got there, the Georgian medics jumped right in to assess the casualties.

“I feel that the medical side of the operation went smoothly and that their medics displayed confidence in their ability to treat the patients,” said Sgt. Brent Horton, an observer controller at the exercise. “The Georgian medics did a great job in prioritizing patients, conducting head-to-toe assessments and they constantly assessed and reassessed the patients’ vitals while waiting for the patients to get medically evacuated.”

There were a total of eight civilians wounded in the accident and five of those had to be medically evacuated due to the degree of the injuries sustained. Some of the lifesaver-saver skills performed by the Georgian medics during the operation included tourniquet application, pressure dressings, and treating victims for shock.

“The Georgian medics reviewed basic combat lifesaver training at the beginning of the MRE,” said Waters. “This type of training is vital. If they do take casualties in combat, they need to know how to treat a patient, to send the casualty evacuation report and to load victims into an aircraft.”

The MRE is the culminating event for the Republic of Georgia’s 23rd Light Infantry Battalion prior to deploying to Afghanistan to conduct counterinsurgency operations in support of the Georgia Deployment Program – International Security Assistance Force.

“The MRE is put together very well and gives them good kinetic and non-kinetic situations that they will encounter in Afghanistan,” said Capt. Matt Warterben, who is part of the Georgia Liaison Team. “They are

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getting an opportunity to employ their combat forces, while also employing information operations and cultural training in simulated Afghan villages.”

Warterben added, “They are getting a firsthand opportunity to experience all the little issues that may cause friction during this upcoming deployment to include; operating in three languages between two interpreters and conducting distributed operations across a large area of operation.”

Marine Corps Forces, Europe is the lead component for planning, coordination and execution of the GDPISAF program and Marine Corps Security Cooperation Group is the lead command with direct responsibility for training the Georgian battalions with support from Training and Education Command and multiple operating force units. The Marine Corps Security Cooperation Group coordinates, manages, executes and evaluates Marine Corps Security Cooperation programs and activities in order to facilitate service and regional component support to combatant commanders’ objectives.

“Our intention is to give the Georgian soldiers the essential training and preparation to operate with Marines and the Afghan National Army in stabilizing the security environment in Afghanistan,” said Lt. Col. Christopher Brown, officer in charge of the rehearsal exercise. “This MRE has been designed to replicate the (Regional Command Southwest) area of operations and provide a scenario that evaluates the 23rd Georgian Light Infantry Battalion’s ability to operate within a counterinsurgency environment.”

Over the coming days, the Georgian soldiers will continue to patrol the JMRC training area seeking insurgents, weapons caches and improvised explosive device factories in partnership with a simulated Afghan partner force as well as engaging and working to influence Afghan civilian role players. The Georgian soldiers will be tested with a full-spectrum of challenges from kinetic attacks to meetings with local civilians to gain information and negotiate differences.

The original GDP-ISAF program was a two-year train and equip mission designed to prepare four Georgian infantry battalions in sequence for operations in Afghanistan with RC(SW). As of May 2011 the program is now GDP-ISAF II, a subsequent extension of the original program for training and deploying nine additional Georgian infantry battalions over three years.

“GDP-ISAF is a very unique mission – it shows how adaptive the Marine Corps can be when applied to building the capacity of partner nations,” said Brown.

“The mission also demonstrates how building partner capacity can have a significant impact on assisting the U.S. with confronting challenges around the globe – Afghanistan in this case.”

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Standing tall over a line of prone Afghan soldiers shouldering machine guns, a bulky Marine instructor yells for them to prepare to fire their weapons.

Their shared vocabulary spans only a handful of words and phrases, but the prone gunners respond by loudly repeating the commands in heavily accented English. Their shouts disappear into a staccato symphony as the deafening strings of machine-gun fire pepper targets hundreds of meters away.

Afghan National Army soldiers with 2nd Kandak, 1st Brigade, 215th Corps, fired machine-guns under the guidance of Marines with 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment’s Embedded Training Team in the final event of a machine-gun operators course, Feb. 21.

Rather than focusing solely on weapons handling and employment, the 20-day course concentrated on developing ANA sergeants, or noncommissioned officers, as machine-gun team leaders, said 1st Lt. David Rooks, an operations adviser with the 3rd Bn., 3rd Marines, ETT. As Afghan forces become more independent in the conduct of security operations in Garmsir District, the ETT Marines are focused on teaching ANA leaders how to employ their men in this mission.

“As our footprint becomes smaller in Garmsir and the Afghan forces take the lead in providing security, we’re helping their NCOs build knowledge and pass on what they’ve learned to their junior soldiers,” said Rooks.

Splitting instruction between three machine-gun systems, the Marines worked to further the ANA soldiers’ knowledge, including components, handling, clean-

ing and proper employment of these weapons. Finally, they learned how to lead teams of machine gunners.

“The soldiers we’ve taught aren’t going to be the gunners,” said Cpl. Jason Misener, a rifleman with 3rd Bn., 3rd Marines, ETT. “They’re going to pick up rank and be responsible for their own teams, so we need to make sure they’re ready to do so.”

Moving from the classroom to the desert, the Afghan soldiers put their skills to the test. They assembled and lubricated their weapons, a methodical precursor to sending rounds downrange.

On their instructor’s command, machine gun teams traded bursts of fire to create an endless barrage of bullets — a method known by the Marines as ‘talking guns.’

Grinning instructors stood close behind, excited to see the proficiency resulting from nearly three weeks of instruction.

Despite finding great benefit in the classroom instruction, ANA Staff Sgt. Islamadin Mohmand said his favorite part of the course was employing what he learned on the range. He looked forward to returning to his unit to begin sharing the knowledge gained during the course.

“I’m confident I can turn around and teach what I’ve learned to my soldiers,” said Mohmand, a machine gunner with 3rd Tolai, 2nd Kandack, 1st Brigade, 215th Corps. “This puts less stress on our kandak because we don’t have to rely on our counterparts as much … we can conduct training on our own level.”

With a view to Afghan-led security in Garmsir, he stressed the importance of Afghan leaders sharing their knowledge and experience.

“Our country’s future depends on this,” Mohmand said. “If you have knowledge but hide it in your head or your heart, you’ll die with it.”

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THE GLOBE, CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. TRANSFERS FROM 1A “We spent a great deal of time improving roads,” said Craparotta. “We gave the (Afghan) citizens an opportunity to get to the market; we facilitated their freedom of movement.”

Opening up the roads also allowed the Afghan National Army and coalition forces to connect the citizens with their local government, giving them the opportunity to interact with their provincial government—and the government to outreach to the citizens in their districts.

“We needed to convince the citizens that there was some benefit to them siding with their government,” said Craparotta. “This was critically important, especially for a people who have been… intimidated and lived through the past 35 years of violence.”

The Division also trained and established local police forces that supported ANSF and linked them to elders, district chiefs of police, and district government.

Berger and 1st Marine Division (Fwd.) assumed command of TFL during a time of transition, in which the ANSF would assume greater responsibility in the security and stability of Afghanistan and its people. In the next year, the total footprint of coalition forces will be reduced by approximately two thirds and many of the bases throughout Helmand province will be closed or turned over to the ANSF. “We’re moving from partnered (operations), to the next part in which they’re in the lead,” said Berger. “They’re doing the counterinsurgency—everything that we do is supporting the ANSF.” Task Force Leatherneck’s mission surrounds encouraging the Afghans to take the lead in all aspects of security and governance. According to Berger, the 1st Marine Division (Fwd.) will be focused on ensuring the ANSF have the tools needed to become more independent.

“Whatever they’re planning and whatever they’re executing,” added Berger, “that’s going to be the first on our list.”

The 1st Marine Division (Fwd.) is slated for a one year deployment. During the course of the deployment, the division’s forces are scheduled to conduct a time-phased reduction, which will bring troop levels down by two thirds.

OPERATION FROM 1A our own,” said Lt. Mohammad Zarif, the commander of 4th Tolai, 2nd Kandak, Helmand ABP. “We wanted to show them the ABP can take on the challenge of providing security for our own country.”

Murray said the ABP prepared for the operation by coordinating with their higher command, rather than depending wholly on the Marines for logistical support.

He called their personal provision and transportation of fuel, food, water and cold weather equipment a “logistical victory.”

Though the operation yielded few tangible results in the form of illicit activity, Armas said the process was the mission’s main success. Ahead of the nearing transition to Afghan-led security in Garmsir, he said the coordination, transportation and implementation of the operation was as important as its end result.

“Planning operations together with the ABP has driven them to start working toward their borders, where they’re using their mobility assets as a smaller, lighter, faster force under the overwatch of Marines,” Armas said.

Battered by 30 years of sustained conflict, Zarif said the people of Afghanistan are tired of war and eager to live in peace. His smile widened and he beamed with pride as he declared himself part of the catalyst within the Afghan forces.

“We want Afghanistan to succeed and to be secure. We want to be able to move around our country without the enemy trying to attack us,” Zarif said. “We’ve gained experience by working with Marines and we’re ready to protect our country. The way to peace here is by maintaining security along our borders.”

GUN FROM 1A During the exchange, Marines took shelter in a nearby building and found an IED training facility. The house had a large amount of explosives and various triggering devices.

“This area has a history of corruption and enemy occupation,” said Capt. Tad Drake, Company G commander. “The enemy forced the police out. By our taking back over the police station, we’re sending a message.”

During the operation, the Marines captured enemy personnel and confiscated numerous enemy weapons caches and even 150 pounds of black-tar heroin. The laundry list of recovered enemy weapons includes rocket-propelled grenade launchers, rifles and machine-guns with thousands of rounds of ammunition, and homemade explosives. The heroin has an estimated value between $100,000 and $175,000 per kilogram.

“This operation was wildly successful. It was beyond all expectations. We were able to disrupt insurgents and give the ANA some breathing space,” said Lt Col. Bill Vivian, the battalion’s commanding officer. “We seriously interfered with their ability to fight and their funding source. They were caught completely by surprise.”

“I was able to celebrate my 25th anniversary in the Marines by blowing up an IED training camp,” Vivian smiled.

While the country remains sometimes dangerous and uncertain, steps toward a peaceful and stable government are being made. The presence of the Marines in areas of Afghanistan is supported by many of the local villages that have long been threatened and intimidated by the thuggish tactics of the enemy. Noticeable progress has been made with the government, allowing for free elections and the building of schools, hospitals and roads as provinces continue to improve their infrastructure.

“We’re here to separate the enemy from the people and to get the government close to the people,” said Chief Warrant Officer 2 Fred Keeney, the battalion’s gunner.

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Working dogs are Marines’ best friend STAFF SGT. ROBERT STORM Regimental Combat Team 6

A rifle may be a Marine’s best friend in combat, but a close second goes to the military working dogs that go out with the Marines of 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment every day.

“The Marines are very pleased with my dog, TTroy,” said Cpl. Derrick Magee, a dog handler. “He helps keep us alive and I keep him happy. Emotions travel down the leash. The dog can tell how you feel and will feel and act in the same way, so you have to be positive.”

TTroy was bred at Lack-

land Air Force Base near San Antonio, Texas and is identified as part of the puppy program by his double consonant first name.

The puppy program takes two military working dogs and breeds them.

“I guess they figure that two successful dogs will give you more successful puppies,” Magee laughed.

“All the K-9 corps for every service is trained at Lackland, so that’s where they breed them.”

The Marine Corps relies on the dog’s heightened senses to assist in detect various substances. The dogs are trained for specific purposes, either narcotics or explosives detection with emphasis on accuracy.

“My dog is trained to detect nine military-grade explosives and various homemade explosives,” said Cpl. Casey Chang, a dog handler. “This is the best job in the Marine Corps. I love being deployed with a dog.”

There are two types of dog handlers in the Marine Corps: a military police dog handler and a normal handler. The police handler goes to his regular school and then goes to a K-9 training school before his duty station. The regular handler can be a Marine from any position who volunteers to go through a six-week course in dog handling prior to deployment.

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the dog for the duration of the tour.

The handlers are trained to work with verbal, whistle and hand command signals. They work on basic obedience and patrol and detection during their training. The dogs are used primarily in explosives and narcotics detection but can also undergo aggression training to intimidate and subdue enemies.

“We have to keep these dogs healthy so that they can do their job,” said Cpl. Jason Lintz, a dog handler.

“I share food with him and he drinks out of my Camelbak. I’d do anything to protect my dog, I’ve even killed feral dogs that were about to attack him.”

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aseball fans milled around historic Grainger Stadium in Kinston, N.C., Sunday, buying hot dogs and drinks, looking for their seats and chatting with each other as they waited for the last game of the Freedom Classic to begin.

Two teams warmed up on the field, tossing baseballs, practicing their batting skills and stretching. Volunteers ripped tickets, passed out programs

and directed people toward their seats, and children made a beeline for the two large helicopters that had been set in the grass behind the stadium.

“The American flag is a representation of our unity and is symbolic of each life represented here today,” a loud voice echoed through the stadium, causing fans to fall silent. “It is a symbol of sacrifice, a symbol of our country, a symbol of our lives and a symbol of the lives of the brave men SEE BASEBALL 7B

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(Right) Military veterans and members of the Kinston Department of Public Safety Explorer Post 1033 stand together following their participation in the opening ceremonies at the Freedom Classic baseball tournament in Kinston, N.C., Sunday. (Below) A member of the Air Force Academy Falcons baseball team swings during his at-bat at the Freedom Classic baseball tournament, Sunday.

(Above) Volunteers unfurl a large American flag before the start of the last game of the second annual Freedom Classic baseball tournament at Grainger Stadium in Kinston, N.C., Sunday.

(Left) Gloves wait on the dugout fence of the Naval Academy baseball team as the teams watch the pre-game ceremonies at the second annual Freedom Classic baseball tournament at Grainger Stadium in Kinston, N.C., Sunday.

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Dr. Bogus shares signs of late winter, spring fishing

When it comes to describing water temperature, it would be easy to say that the water is frigid, icy or freezing.

However, when compared to last winter, when snow blanketed the ground and temperatures kept residents wearing their heavy coats and winter boots, the 53 degrees Fahrenheit water feels downright warm.

Hopefully, these warm weather signs are flags that spring time is officially coming and bringing spring and summer fish with it.

Last week, I mentioned some of the fish we expect to see early in the season. One of the biggest factors in welcoming back our spring friends this year will be the water temperature.

Most saltwater fish are governed by a lower level

avoidance temperature, an optimum avoidance temperature and a high avoidance temperature.

This time of year, we often look at the low temperature avoidance as the temperature when we may see the first fish of a specific species arrive on the Crystal Coast.

As long as we stay above a minimum temperature of 46 degrees Fahrenheit, we stand a chance of seeing the first of the spring blowfish make their way to the North Carolina coast. The same can be said of sea mullet, which require water to be at least 48 degrees Fahrenheit for their bodies to be able to withstand the weather.

Bluefish should also start to arrive soon, granted that the Carolina coast water temperatures stay about 50 degrees Farhenheit, but it will take a little warming up before we see the Atlantic bonito, which should not be expected until the water temperature reaches at least 60 degrees Fahrenheit.

Likewise, Spanish mackerel and King mackerel both require water temperature to be in the mid-60s before they start

to make an appearance in waterways.

Other early arrivals include sharks, skates and rays, which will arrive at various times, depending on their feeding schedule and their required water temperature.

As we march into March and April, speckled trout re-enter the creeks from the ocean, along with pre-spawn gray trout. Last spring, I saw a lot of gray trout between 14-inches and 18-inches long and I was catching them right beside speckled trout on a daily basis.

How is the fishing right now? Unfortunately, anglers are still suffering through a slow point.

Here are several helpful hints to finding fish.

Three area anglers, Ricky Kellum, Lee Parsons and Jeff Cronk have all reported finding fish in the last week. Kellum and Cronk report sizable trout catches and Parsons informed me that he caught several trout and redfish.

If it’s red drum you’re after, try checking Bear Island this week.

The creeks I am currently fishing have been dead for the last two weeks but the warm waters have led the fish into the sounds. It looks like it is time to break out your kayaks, anglers, and navigate your way through the marshes and swamps.

Anglers are still catching black drum at the Cape Lookout Rock Jetty, where there are still some red drum and a few speckled trout to be found as well. The black drum are also being found along the surf, especially around the Fort Macon Jetty.

If you are a Haystacks enthusiast, head out to get your hands on a few trout and red drum, which are still being steadily caught in the area.

Offshore, catches of wahoo, blackfin tuna, dolphin and a sailfish have peaked anglers’ interest.

As they have been known to do in the past, the fish are staying between big rock and Swansboro hole.

Finally, repairs continue to make progress on Bogue Pier, which was severely damaged in Hurricane Irene. It looks like the final pilings at the mackerel T area of the pier were placed over the weekend. Now, crews are finishing the deck and rebuilding the popular observation deck. They still hope to open the pier for the Emerald Isle Saint Patrick’s Day festivities, March 17.

Make extra effort to meet needs

A former Arizona Cardinals’ tight end is being called a hero after he saved a van full of people, stranded along a remote pass of an interstate near Black Canyon, Ariz.

Ben Patrick was driving with some friends when the group came upon a wreck involving a large van, flipped on its side, with people trapped inside.

Upon inspection of the scene, Patrick and his friends could smell gas leaking from the van.

That is when they sprang into action and went the extra yard to help the stranded passengers.

In a conversation with a local news station in Arizona, Patrick called the rescue an “out of body experience” as he and his friends worked quickly to remove those stuck in what seemed to be a hopeless situation.

news was crushed during a recent conversation with a friend who commented that he would only be willing to go the extra mile if there was something in it for him.

In his opinion, the example Patrick set by seeing and meeting the need of others would only be worth the trouble if a direct and fruitful reward was to be gained.

When I heard his opinion on athletes doing good deeds only for a little extra glory, I had to bite my tongue from making a snide comment.

As in the example set by Patrick, assisting when we see a need greater than our own is a common courtesy we extend whenever possible.

Providing help to those in need should be more than a need for good publicity.

Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune boasts some of the finest athletes in the world. Not only do our athletes excel on the field, rink and in the ring - they excel in their day-to-day activities.

On every level, from youth athletes who are willing to stay after practice and help their coach clean the gym to mem-

bers of our varsity and All-Marine sports teams who work 12-hour days and then dedicate themselves to staying after practice to help a team member improve their technique, our athletes can be touted as the best of the best.

Whether our athletes are meeting basic needs, like assisting with clean-up after practice or preparing to deploy, the athletes, coaches and other service members aboard MCB Camp Lejeune do not seek out praise or look for moments to highlight the extra work they do. They work quietly and humbly, and willingly dedicating their time and efforts.

Marines and other service members understand that taking the extra time to help meet a need is not something to be done only when there are people watching.

I’m not sure what it will take to make my friend understand this concept of assisting off the court and out of the ring, but I hope it rings true for him, soon.

Maybe I should bring him to the next intramural basketball game.

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Above, beyond call of duty Patrick climbed on top of the van and began to pull people out, while his friends helped the passengers away from the scene of the accident.

Working together as one team, Patrick and his friends were able to pull all of the stuck passengers from the overturned van before the situation went from bad to worse.

The example Patrick set by going the extra yard to help people in need is something the athletic community is starting to see more of.

Whether helping out another athlete in need, such as former New York Knicks’ player David Lee helping new basketballsuperstar Jeremy Lin find an apartment, or a member of a high school track team falling back during a meet to help carry an injured opponent to safety, news of athletes going the extra mile is on the rise.

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Youth sports coaches needed The Youth Sports office is actively seeking patrons interested in becoming youth sports coaches for teeball, baseball, softball and golf. Interested patrons should be proficient in the sport they hope to coach and be willing to commit to a team. For more information, visit www.mccslejeune.com/ youthsports or call 451-2177.

Team Bass Tournament Saturday, 6 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Join two-man teams fishing for large-mouth Bass on the New River and its tributaries.

Average prize is $2,500 based on 50 boats.

Trophies and cash prizes will be awarded for first, second and third place. Pre-registration is $70, but participants may register the day of the event for $85. Food and drinks will be provided at weigh-in. Active-duty teams may participate through the usage of unit funds with permission from the unit’s special services officer.

Lejeune High School home soccer game March 8, 6 p.m.

Cheer on the Lejeune High School Devil Pups in their first home game of the season against North Brunswick High School.

Students can attend the game free with their student identification cards. There is a $5 entrance fee for adults. Remember that weather and field conditions dictate playing times. A full list of LHS spring sporting events can be found at www. maxpreps.com.

Family Fun fishing day March 10, 9 a.m. to noon Gather your family and head over to Orde Pond for a morning of family fishing fun. The pond will be stocked with plenty of trout and striped bass and patrons are welcome to keep whatever they catch. This event is open to all authorized Department of Defense identification cardholders. Patrons must bring their own poles, tackle boxes and bait. Please register with Outdoor Adventures by Wednesday. For more information, visit www.mccslejeune.com/ outdooradventures.

Family fun run March 17, 9 a.m.

Join other families for a one-mile run at the Tarawa Terrace Community Center aboard the Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune housing area. Track time and distance run will be provided to each participant and a printed progress report will be handed out at the end of the year. The March theme is “Green Eggs and Ham,” and participants are encouraged to dress up. This run is opened to all authorized DOD identification cardholders and pets on leashes. Register on site the morning of the event. For more information, visit www.mccslejeunecom.

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Youth basketball playoffs heat up courts JESSIE HEATH Sports editor

For the past two months, some of Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune’s youngest patrons have donned their jerseys, laced their sneakers and taken to the basketball courts.

Every athlete has played with vigor and assisted their teammates in every game. After putting in a lot of dedication and effort, the youth basketball teams have proven that they have what it takes to compete against one another.

Now that the playoff season has arrived, teams are playing with renewed strength, their excitement palpable in the air.

“Through the season, we’ve seen these kids and the teams they are on improve from where they started,” said Chris Williams, the youth sports director aboard MCB Camp Lejeune. “We have seen a steady progression of (patrons) getting better as the season has worn on.”

With several age groups in the youth basketball program, certain rules must be bent and modified to work for everyone.

The youngest athletes play shortened, six-minute quarters, designed to help teach them the basics of basketball, while the older leagues play regulation basketball, governed by local rules. Since the younger participants work mainly on ball handling and technique, they are not involved in the end-ofseason tournament.

“We only have the 10 to 12-year-olds and the 13 to 15-year-olds participating in this tournament because they are the ones who

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(Left) Members of the Celtics (green jerseys) and Bulls play a fierce game in the first round of the end-of-season tournament at the French Creek Gymnasium aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, Saturday. (Above) A member of the Bulls basketball team dribbles down the court during a game against the Celtics aboard MCB Camp Lejeune, Saturday. keep score of their games,” explained Williams.

In a single-elimination tournament, which started Saturday, members of the older two leagues faced off against opponents in the hopes of moving forward to the second round of the tournament, which took place Monday.

“We do single elimination for all our basketball teams so that they really have to bring their A-game to every game,” said Williams. “They have to work hard to stay in the tournament every night on the court.”

A single-elimination tournament has the potential to turn heads and lead to more upsets than a double-elimination tour-

nament, which is something Williams believes can be a positive thing.

“Once in a while, we see a game upset here or there,” said Williams.

“We really encourage that to an extent so that teams don’t get lopsided. We had a game between the first place team and the eighth place team where the eighth place team was only down four points at halftime.”

Season surprises like that keep the athletes on their toes and keep coaches watching other teams to see how to better their own players.

“Everybody likes an underdog,” said Williams.

“And, from time to time, we like to see underdogs

really come into their own.”

While they encourage surprises and upsets once in a while, Williams is clear the goal is not to win or lose, but rather continue to have fun in the tournament playoffs.

“In the tournament, just like in everything else, we encourage the competitive aspect but we want the kids to have fun as well,” explained Williams. “We always want to see them playing competitively against one another, but we want them to understand that participation and experience overrides any competition.

“The most important thing at the end of the day is that they have

fun and take away some experience that they can use when they return as season veterans or move into an older league next year,” added Williams.

For the kids who take part in the youth sports basketball program, it’s not about becoming the next National Basketball Association all-star or catching the eye of the college scouts - it’s about having fun. Diving after every ball, no matter how far out of reach it is, and hearing parents cheering them on from the bleachers is what draws these children to the gym every weekend.

As they prepare for the championship games this Saturday, youth basketball

teams are shaking off their end-of-tournament jitters and preparing to put on their game faces.

The 10 to 12-yearold age group eastern and western conference tournament winners will play each other at 10 a.m. in the Area 1 Gym aboard MCB Camp Lejeune, Saturday. The 13 to 15year-old league game will tip off at 11:15 a.m.

Immediately following the conclusion of the 13 to 15-year-old championship game, end-of-season ceremonies will be held in the Area 1 Gym for both age groups.

For more information, visit www.mccslejeune. com/youthsports.

Athletics come to Brewster Middle School JESSIE HEATH AND TYLER PINKNEY Students at Brewster Middle School returned from their holiday vacation to find a new program and an exciting new opportunity awaiting them.

Recently, Brewster Middle School joined the Onslow County Middle School Athletics Conference, bringing volleyball, soccer and track teams to the students who previously had no outlet for competitive sports available at the school.

The students who take part in these programs will benefit from learning the fundamentals of sports before attending Lejeune High School, which has a more competitive conference and more athletes to draw from.

Lejeune High School Devil Pups Basketball coach, Doug Erny, is the athletic director of the Brewster Middle School program. With his new title, Erny is in charge of scheduling and managing all the middle school athletic teams.

“It is something totally new for all our students,” said Erny. “It will give them something to grasp together as a school instead of their individual little teams.”

“I’m excited about the middle school program,” added Chad Fonville, assistant coach of the LHS Devil Pups basketball team. “For a long time, kids (have) wanted it, coaches wanted it and parents wanted it. It (is) finally here and I’m really looking forward to it.”

The new program will also assist Lejeune High School coaches by allowing them to draw on the skills and knowledge of students who graduate from the middle school program. The middle school teams will act as feeder teams for the Lejeune High School sports teams, lending more experience to the young athletes who hope to play competitively in high school.

“It will greatly help out the high school, because we will have kids that

have experience when they go into high school sports,” said Erny. “It’s more of a feeder program for the high school because we’re feeding them more experienced players.”

Regardless of worries that permanent change of duty stations could cause students to move away from the Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune area before they reach the high school level, Erny believes that the Brewster Middle School feeder program will have a strong backing from the community.

“We’ve had a strong (request from) the community,” said Erny. “The parents and people want to see our kids play sports.”

The Brewster Middle School sports program is starting off small this spring, but hopes to grow exponentially as they gain experience in the middle school sports realm.

Currently, the school hosts a boys soccer team, a girls volleyball team and a track and field team. At the start of the 2012-2013 school year, Erny plans to have football, along with boys and girls basketball and wrestling.

Ernys hopes to find a way to offer an athletic outlet to all interested middle school students and help prepare them for more competitive high school and intramural sports.

This season, to help find their footing, the Brewster Middle School athletic teams are not playing any conference games, but rather scrimmaging against other schools in the Onslow County Middle School Athletic Conference and holding regular practices to help young athletes condition their bodies.

“We are just scrimmaging this year because (school) schedules are already set.

Onslow County has been nice enough to let us join their conference,” explained Erny. “Next year, we’ll actually be able to attend the conference.”

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Brewster Middle School volleyball coach, Jackie Wagner, instructs a member of the Brewster volleyball team on proper technique during practice, Tuesday.

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(Top, left) Marines perform kettlebell workouts during the Marine Corps Community Services’ Semper Fit Division Physical Trainer Coordinators Course at the French Creek Fitness Center aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, recently. The PTCC is one of three courses the Semper Fit Division offers that makes up the Combat Fitness Workshop. The other two courses are the Combat Fitness Training Workshop and the Advanced PTCC. (Above) Marines perform plank workouts during the MCCS Semper Fit Division Physical Trainer Coordinators Course at the French Creek Fitness Center aboard MCB Camp Lejeune, recently.

(Bottom, left) Marines perform mason twist kettlebell workouts during the MCCS Semper Fit Division Physical Trainer Coordinators Course at the French Creek Fitness Center aboard MCB Camp Lejeune, recently.

Combat Fitness Workshops offer variety to service members’ workouts SGT. BRYAN A. PETERSON Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune

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uring a morning commute aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, it’s common to see Marines and sailors running to the Brewster-Holcomb Boulevard intersection and

then back to their respective sections on mainside.

Depending on where the starting point is, that is at least a seven-mile run.

Running long distances builds endurance and is something the Marine Corps is accustomed to, but Marine Corps Community Services’ Semper Fit Division personal trainers’ goal is to get service members out of the “running

rhythm” to a more complex regimen of workouts.

In the late 1990s, Semper Fit, aboard the base, was the only MCCS entity in the Marine Corps to have a program that engaged the way Marines and sailors conduct physical training.

But, when former Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. James T. Conway announced the Combat Fitness Test in 2007,

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Marines perform kettlebell workouts during the Marine Corps Community Services Semper Fit Division Physical Trainer Coordinators Course at the French Creek Fitness Center aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, recently. The PTCC is one of three courses the Semper Fit Division offers that makes up the Combat Fitness Workshop. The other two courses are the Combat Fitness Training Workshop and the Advanced PTCC.

Semper Fit took action to add another program – Combat Fitness Training – to its core curriculum. The result? Right now, Semper Fit Division aboard MCB Camp Lejeune stands above their peers across the globe with their Combat Fitness Workshops.

They currently offer a Combat Fitness Training Course, Physical Trainer Coordinator Course and the Advanced Physical Trainer Coordinator Course to service members and emergency responders such as the police and fire departments aboard the installation.

The workshops are so popular that Tina Brooks, the personal training and workshops coordinator for Semper Fit Division of MCCS, welcomes Marines from across the country because “their installations don’t have these courses.

“If funding is available, we even travel to reserve stations throughout the country,” added Brooks.

But, even with the economic downturn that caused the Marine Corps, along with all the other services, to find cuts, finding funds for Marines to travel is becoming sparse. Brooks took it to the next level by creating a link on Semper Fit’s website designed to educate those who are interested in the workouts.

As such, with workouts such as CrossFit, TV’s Extreme Home Fitness and a variety of others becoming increasingly popular, the standard morning PT workouts are quickly becoming a thing of the past.

“Units are still incorporating running in their workout routines, but are

also venturing out to a variety of others,” Brooks said.

Brooks said more and more units are incorporating kettlebells and a multitude of other CrossFitrelated workouts in their routines.

“We bring awareness to the service members about what they might need to work on more,” Brooks said. “People actually hurt themselves from running.

We want them to know that they can work on things like their core and balancing.”

The two-day CFT course, offered four times a year, focuses on combat readiness through classroom and hands-on training. The intense course is known to make even personal trainers dread waking up the next morning, but is not meant to “tire anyone out, but more to focus on agility and coordination to make a Marine more wellrounded,” said Brooks.

Upon completion, a Marine, regardless of rank, can monitor a CFT for score.

The weeklong Physical Trainer Coordinator Course is specially designed to help develop PT plans for unique situations, such as for those Marines who are assigned to the Body Composition Program or remedial PT. “We receive phone calls about a Marine who is assigned to run the BCP, but doesn’t know what to do,” said Brooks. “This course emphasizes the importance of nutrition, study of anatomy and what kind of workout is appropriate for that individual. The course can help a PT (noncommissioned officers) evaluate their Marine’s physical fitness. There are workouts

involved, but it’s not about how much you can lift, but how well you can lift something.”

At the completion of the course, students are expected to understand how to put together a six-week PT program that is designed to show progress.

The two-day Advanced PTCC is designed to further evaluate and focus on an individual basis. The course requires Marines to bring the most current PFT and CFT scores in and determine, based off the scores, what areas need the most work.

Given the courses and plethora of information Semper Fit Division provides, Brooks highly encourages service members not to just focus on “PFT workouts when it’s PFT time or CFT workouts when it’s CFT time.”

“Think of it like an exam,” continued Brooks.

“If you study all yearlong, chances are likely you will do much better than if you crammed all night. If you train all yearlong in both types of workouts, you’ll be in top condition for any fitness test.”

Brooks feels the Combat Fitness Workshops have had a great impact on the base, a belief supported by the fact that every class is filled to maximum capacity.

“Our target is to attract those who have to train others,” said Brooks. “We want to make sure we get someone in here who has authority and administer the tools provide.”

For more information, visit www.mccslejeune. com/fitness.

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The announcer’s voice faded away as bagpipes resounded through the stadium. Quietly, fans found their seats and turned their attention toward the field.

Suddenly, it was clear that Sunday’s game was more than just a regularly scheduled season game between two teams – this was a symbolic tribute to the nation and those who serve it.

Featuring the Naval Academy and the Air Force Academy, the 2nd annual Freedom Classic was a three-game, nonconference exhibition baseball game between the two service academies, designed to bring together nearby military base personnel and community members for a weekend of honor and remembrance.

Jenny Inabinet, the Freedom Classic chair, said nearly 4,000 baseball fans poured through the gates of Grainger Stadium Saturday and Sunday to watch the games and fellowship with other community members.

“We have so many military bases close to Kinston,” said Inabinet.

“This year, we had nearly 4,000 people come out to watch ‘America’s favorite sport’ and support our active duty service members, future officers and veterans. Next year, hopefully we will draw an even larger community in to watch the games.

“A couple of years ago, we started getting this idea in our heads,” continued Inabinet. “Bill Ellis, the director of parks and recreation (in Kinston) knew the (Naval) Academy’s baseball coach and he invited him and his team to come down and play at Grainger Stadium.

We were hoping to boost tourism in Kinston and we knew that the Air Force and Navy always played in a neutral location, so we invited them both.”

A lone bagpiper walked down the steps beside the first base line and onto the field, followed by Eric Cantu, a former Army aviator and the commander for the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2771 in Kinston. Cantu led a long line of flag bearers to the first and third base lines for the start of the pre-game ceremony. Behind the flags, representing various veteran organizations and the branches of the military, the Navy and Air Force teams lined up.

The flags were lowered as a long line of volunteers joined the flag bearers on the field and unfurled an American flag for the singing of the national anthem

by T.J. Rufino, a military child.

As Rufino completed the national anthem, fans cheered and settled into their seats for what they hoped would be a good

game of America’s favorite pastime between two teams who represented so much.

“I came to this event last year,” said Chris Lopez, a former Marine, “and I really appreciated the chance to carry a flag in the (pre-game) ceremonies. This is something our community can take pride in, even if they don’t affiliate with either (the Navy) or the Air Force.”

Lopez, who attended Sunday’s game with his daughter, said the Freedom Classic is a good opportunity to meet with other community members while enjoying something that has become a trademark sport in the United States.

“I grew up with baseball,” explained Lopez. “I played as a child and while I was in the Marine Corps.

It has always been a part of my life.”

Marine Corps veteran Mike Azor, whose son is a member of the Naval Academy team, agreed with Lopez. “I’ve always been a baseball fan,” said Azor. “So of course it is great to come out with other people.”

According to Azor, even better than gathering with other fans to watch the game, though, was the opportunity to support the future officers of the military.

“Any event between two military academies is going to be great,” explained Azor. “These guys get very competitive between the (base) lines and it makes for very good games. But, what’s even more special is that outside the (base) lines, they recognize that they belong to the same family. We are all part of this family and we all are pushing for the same goal.”

Other veterans who participated in the pre-game ceremonies and attended the games with their families, like retired Army Staff Sergeant Bill Burrows, the Freedom Classic represented a meeting of the minds and a chance to fellowship with service members who have recently returned from deployments. Burrows attended the inaugural Freedom Classic last year and found it provided him with a chance to meet and welcome home soldiers, Marines, airmen and sailors who had recently returned from overseas.

“You have a bunch of people from different (veteran) groups out here for the (pre-game) and the tournament,” said Burrows. “You also get a lot of veterans who are returning home or have just recently returned, and this is a good opportunity to fellowship with them in one place.”

After winning games two and three in the inaugural Freedom Classic, the Naval Academy Midshipmen returned to Grainger Stadium looking to defend their title. When Friday evening’s game was

cancelled due to turbulent weather, both teams and the family members and fans that supported them were eager to see what Saturday’s double-header would bring.

The first game went to the Air Force Academy Falcons, who nabbed an 8-7 win in 10 innings.

The Air Force Academy managed to hold onto the reigns, earning them a win, 10-4 in the second game and the tournament champion title. However, the Naval Academy Midshipmen were determined to show what they were made of and returned Sunday, refreshed and ready for another day.

In the early parts of Sunday’s game, the Naval Academy Midshipmen led the way after scoring three runs in the top of the second inning and held onto their 3-0 lead for more than half of the game, causing everybody in the stands to wonder if Sunday’s game would upset the Falcons winning streak.

“Right now, it looks like the Navy might win this game,” said Burrows, after the fourth inning.

“We might have just found ourselves the winners in the game.”

The Naval Academy held their 3-0 lead with right-handed pitcher Zach Sipe at the helm, directing them through tricky waters to keep the Falcons from putting any men on base.

The midshipmen clung tightly to their lead until the Air Force rallied with a four-run inning in the bottom of the seventh, giving them an edge over their opponents. Closely following the Falcons’ four-point streak, a fielding error left the Navy slightly shaken and gave renewed energy to the Air Force.

The midshipmen moved past their fielding error quickly, earning themselves four more runs in the top of the ninth inning, closing out the game with a 7-4 win.

“Even though Friday’s game was cancelled due to weather, both teams played really well,” said Inabinet.

“Both teams had a chance to win and they played hard and brought people together.”

As the game ended and the teams jogged onto the field to shake hands following the completion of the Freedom Classic, Inabinet and her team were already looking to the next year.

“This is to honor and support our service members,” added Inabinet. “There is a bond between them that cannot be explained or contained.

These families have a connection between them and they really support one another. Everyone is close.

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Members of the Silent Drill Platoon exchange rifles during a performance for 3,000 spectators attending the Inaugural Service to America Day at Colts Neck High School, April 1, 2011. The Silent Drill Platoon is preparing for their upcoming performance aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, with the United States Marine Battle Color Detachment, this March.

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After several years of absence, the United States Marine Corps Battle Color Detachment from Marine Barracks Washington, D.C. is slated to perform for service members aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, March 14.

It consists of the Marine Corps Drum and Bugle Corps, the Marine Corps Color Guard, and, always a crowd favorite, the Marine Corps Silent Drill Platoon.

These units make hundreds of appearances at professional football, basketball and baseball games as well as countless cities across America and foreign countries to promote the Marine Corps. Now, they

l f b plan to perform aboard the base for service members who work behind the scenes to keep the country safe.

The Silent Drill Platoon first performed in 1948 during the Sunset Parades at Marine Barracks Washington, D.C. Since then, they have become a Marine Corps icon throughout the United States.

The 24-man rifle platoon, all of them handpicked from the School of Infantry in Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Ca., and Camp Geiger, N.C., perform exceptionally difficult drill maneuvers with a 10 and a half pound M-1 Garand rifle.

Each member of the silent drill platoon must meet the requirements of being between 5'11" and 6'1" tall

Photo by Sgt. Bryan G. Lett

The Marine Corps Silent Drill Platoon performs at Winnacunnet High School in Hampton, N.H., June 22, 2011. Members of the Silent Drill Platoon are individually selected based on interviews conducted by personnel from Marine Barracks Washington, D.C. and be in the median of their weight requirements.

Uniformity is key and anyone not meeting the requirements is turned away.

Their military discipline and bearing exemplify the professionalism that is associated with the Marine Corps.

With so many service members and civilians working aboard the base, seating will be limited and

the performance will only be available to those with common access cards.

Although the visit is only available to CAC holders, future events may be available to Jacksonville residents.

The performance will be held at 10:30 a.m. on W.P.T. Hill Field aboard the base. In the case of inclement weather, the event will be canceled.

Nonprofit organization customizes free clothing for wounded service members CPL. DAMANY S. COLEMAN

Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune

What have you done for your country lately?

Combat veterans, of course, need not answer this question. Especially those who were severely wounded, are undergoing the long and tedious recovery process and still doing their best to carry out normal, productive lives.

Wounded Wear, a non-profit organization based in Virginia, can also be counted on that list. Founded by Navy Lt. j.g. Jason Redman, a severely wounded Navy SEAL, Wounded Wear designs clothing and clothing modifications for wounded service members at no cost. Wounded Wear also promotes awareness of both wounded troops and troops who lost their lives supporting operations since 9/11.

The organization recently visited service members and their families in the area during a fundraising event hosted by a local tax service office, Feb. 25.

On Sept. 13, 2007, while acting as an assault force commander on an operation to capture an al-Qaida high-value individual, Redman’s team came under heavy machine-gun and small-arms fire. Despite being shot twice in the arm, once in the face and multiple times to his helmet, body armor and weapon, Redman and his men still claimed a victory by all coming home alive.

Still on active duty and more than 30 reconstructive surgeries later, Redman raced his way through a recovery process that would have proved nearly impossible for anyone else, using his experiences and positive attitude to motivate others and to continue to raise awareness in any possible way.

Jeffery Serbus, owner and operator of the Liberty Tax Service office, said the event was just another great way to support local and worldwide troops.

“I have an office here in Jacksonville and in Havelock two military towns that I always want to give back to,” said Serbus. “To be able to team up with Wounded Wear, as well as Hope for the Warriors, is an awesome and pleasure to help. Anything that can help our people out there on the frontlines protecting our freedoms, I’ll do it. They’re not getting enough recognition.”

Serbus added that even after troops are treated for injuries they may receive, a fraction of the necessary attention they require seemingly goes away after time.

“On television, you see things like homes being built for some of them,” said Serbus. “But that’s only a few of them.

The rest are sometimes forgotten and this is one more outstanding way we can help them out and get them involved with an organization that is bound to grow.”

Daniel Jacobs, the North Carolina region liaison for Wounded Wear, said he witnessed the effects of being a wounded troop in his youth, after his father was injured during the Beirut bombing of 1983.

“I grew up with an injured Marine, and coming to see and know the effects of being wounded, it’s just a feeling of satisfaction that I can give back,” said Jacobs. “For me to be able to be a part of this organization and have this great opportunity is a rewarding experience.”

Jacobs said finding wounded troops to aid is as simple as visiting some of the places they go for medical attention to recover, such as the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. Then, using solely the SEE CLOTHING 2C

The infamous Norovirus. It’s a particularly wicked strand of the stomach flu that has risen in notoriety over the past several weeks nationwide, and sounds like something from the opening scenes of a science-fiction horror film.

Officials aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune received a norovirus warning weeks ago and the base’s medical facilities have since had their fair shares of patients plagued by this virus.

There is no known vaccine, yet it spreads quickly and hits the infected with a triple threat of nausea, diarrhea and vomiting that can last from as short as 24 hours to as long as a week.

If infected by one strain, there is still the possibility of being infected by another, or even re-infected a few months later by the one that infected you the first time around.

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the incubation period is, on average, two days and people are contagious from the moment they feel ill to at least three days — and possibly two weeks — after they recover.

These viruses spread from person to person, through contaminated food or water, and by touching contaminated surfaces. It is also recognized as the leading cause of foodbornedisease outbreaks in the country.

Petty Officer 1st Class Gary Cherry, a service independent duty corpsman at building 15 aboard the base, said since the bulletin was posted by the CDC, there has been a rise in patients diagnosed with the virus.

As a mid-level health

care provider, Cherry said he has witnessed an increase in “noro-like” patients, with the same three symptoms of nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.

“It is a virus that’s a little hard to kill and is passed mostly by not washing your hands,” said Cherry. “Of course, vomiting and diarrhea are bad, but they are secondary when it comes to the dangers of malnourishment and the dehydration that come along with them.

I tell patients, often, that I like diarrhea. Not personally, but for the body because it’s one of your natural defense mechanisms. It gets rid of whatever you put in your gastro-intestinal tract that it doesn’t like, quickly.”

Cherry said although a body’s natural reaction to “purge” is a good thing, suffering from both vomiting and diarrhea causes the body to lose electrolytes and some essential liquids.

According to the CDC, norovirus is estimated to affect more than 20 million Americans every year, causing about 800 deaths, usually resulting from dehydration in the very young or elderly. Since there is no vaccine, the only treatments available involve using medication to slow down the frequency of vomiting or diarrhea.

“I want to stop one of the two (symptoms) and nine times out of 10, I’m going to medicate to stop the vomiting,” said Cherry. “With diarrhea, it’s a little easier to control and you can go a little longer without having to run to the bathroom. I usually give patients a (sickin-quarters) chit for 24 to 48 hours, all the while washing your hands and drinking water, Gatorade or something I call the BRAT diet: bread, rice, applesauce or toast. They all help settle the stomach and give you the nutrients you need to bounce back from the norovirus.”

MCB Camp Lejeune streamlining CCW permit order SGT. BRYAN A. PETERSON

Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune

The Concealed Carry Weapons permit application North Carolina residents pick up from their county’s sheriff office is a process, to say the least.

First, much like any document on the first page, residents must fill out basic information: first name, last name, middle initial, address, etc. They also must truthfully answer questions pertaining to health and criminal activity, get a health assessment from their doctor, complete a 10-year address check and complete a National Rifle Association endorsed gun safety course.

Once completed, the resident will turn in all necessary documents to the county’s sheriff office, pay any required fees and once a FBI National Instant Criminal Background Check System is complete, the sheriff will sign off on a concealed carry weapons permit.

Sounds like a lot to do. But all these requirements are about saving lives and protecting people from harm — by not letting guns, and particularly CCW permits, fall into the wrong hands, according to the FBI’s website.

But what every law-abiding North Carolina resident goes through to exercise his Second Amendment right is a fraction compared to what service members have to complete in order to exercise that same right.

North Carolina General Statute 14-415 states North Carolina does not issue non-resident pistol and CCW permits, but there is a provision that allows service members to be recognized as residents of the state.

That’s when, then-Maj. Gen. Robert C. Dickerson Jr., signed a Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune order to satisfy Onslow County and state requirements.

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DASH diet helps heart LANCE CPL. PAUL C. PETERSON

Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune

Photo by Pfc. Nik S. Phongsisattanak

Service members transitioning out of the military who need help finding a new career or path can attend a job fair preparation workshop, which will be hosted by Marine Corps Community Services at the Russell Marine and Family Services Center aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, from 1 to 4 p.m., tomorrow.

Camp Lejeune offers job fair prep workshop

PFC. NIK S. PHONGSISATTANAK Marines Corps Base Camp Lejeune

When service members enlist, they dedicate their time to serving while continuously honing skills used in their military occupational specialty. But what happens when their time of service is near the end? Will they be able to find a new career or educational path?

But more importantly, will they know how to find and fight for a job during this economic struggle that’s left millions of Americans unemployed?

Luckily, Marines and sailors can find the assistance they need by attending the job fair preparation workshop, which will be hosted

by Marine Corps Community Services at the Russell Marine and Family Service Center aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, from 1 to 4 p.m., tomorrow.

“It’s for any service member or family member that is thinking about attending the job fair coming up,” said Lee Tuthill, a transition assistance program specialist with Marine Corps Community Services, MCB Camp

Lejeune. “It’s geared for tips pertaining to how to handle yourself in a job fair, which is a different setting from going to a job interview that is one-on-one.”

At the workshop, participants will learn proper etiquette, how to dress for the occasion, research and prepare questions to ask companies that interest them, and also get the chance to learn about different type of resumes.

“You have a shorter period of time to talk to (company representatives),” said Tuthill. “You should do research on the company before you get there, and you should know the positions they have. Employers are looking at whether you care enough to see what their company makes or does.”

The workshop’s purpose to help service members learn how to present themselves professionally and make a good impression.

“A lot of them don’t realize that you just can’t walk up to a company and expect to be hired because you might have the skill set,” said Tuthill. “You have to be able to sell those skills to that employer and make them believe that you meet

CLOTHING FROM 1C honor system, the troops are given $200 kits of exclusive Wounded Wear gear for free.

“We work closely with some of the larger hospitals and even go room to room, speaking with the guys and distributing them a kit,” said Jacobs. “However, we can get these men and women the modifications

their expectations.”

The job fair focuses a lot on the military members transitioning out, but there are jobs for family members as well. Participants will be able to look at more than 90 companies, which have also listed their available positions.

For additional assistance, patrons can drop off resumes to be critiqued at the center. They can also come into the center to have their resume printed off on resume paper.

“By coming (to the class), you’re going to get that little bit of extra lessons to make you stand out of the hundreds of people who will attend the job fair,” said Tuthill. “Many of the class participants say that they feel more confident about going to the job fair. Be prepared, that way you have a better shot of actually getting that phone call for the second interview or to get hired.”

Patrons are asked to register for the class due to the limited amount of seats available.

For more information on the workshop, visit mccslejeune.com/jobfair/ index.html.

they need, whether they heard about us through word of mouth or someone handed them a business card. We don’t discriminate and it’s all about them.”

For more information on Wounded Wear and future events, visit the website woundedwear.org.

PERMIT FROM 1C This allowed service members the opportunity to obtain a pistol and CCW permit.

With MCB Camp Lejeune Base Order 5500.1G Pending H, a unit’s commanding officer can endorse a letter for a service member which serves as a background check and residency letter, providing all state and Onslow County requirements have been met. The letter states the troop does not have any negative remarks in his Service Record Book, no criminal offenses, no health factors, has completed the gun safety course and is of good moral character.

“Basically, when it comes down to it, we don’t have access to service member’s health and local criminal records,” said John Michael Moore, the special technical assistant to the Onslow County sheriff, who handles pistol purchase permits, CCW and fingerprints for Onslow County. “The service members’ primary care doctor is on base and we have to have their doctor’s-approved stamp and the Provost Marshal’s Office stamp for the local background check as well.

“A civilian has their doctor out in town and any local criminal offenses can be found in the civilian database. Much like the civilians have a courthouse, the military’s courthouse is PMO, and that’s what we need,” Moore added.

In addition, if a service member lives in base housing, they have to register their weapons with PMO through the base housing form. On the flip side, if a service member lives in the barracks, it becomes tricky. The barracks are not considered an established residency, which prevents them from obtaining a CCW, according to state law.

“Weapons, pistol or shotguns, can’t be in a Marine’s possession while they are in the barracks and those residing in the barracks are not allowed to get a CCW permit,” said Tim Akers, the deputy provost marshal with PMO. “However, they are allowed to get a pistol permit, which allows them to buy guns, but they have to register them with (PMO) and keep their weapon in their unit’s armory.”

As Akers put it, it can be a complicating process to some unit commanders.

For instance, once the service member completes all of his paperwork, one of the last steps for him is to get a background check at PMO. Then, he will take that background check to his commanding officer to request a command letter endorsement. From there, the CO will review all paperwork included and verify no prohibiting factors in the Marine’s SRB and sign off on it. Akers said troops, sometimes, get the runaround.

“We’ll hear about Marines going back and forth between PMO and their respective commands about the order of the process, such as the unit commander won’t sign off until PMO signs off and vice versa,” Akers said. “Right now, though there’s no immediate end date, (but) we are streamlining the process. We want to make this as clear as possible.

We want to make sure that whatever the order says, the commanders will follow.

“The ‘pending H’ is what’s going on right now. There’s a routing process involved,” Akers added. “From PMO, the order will be routed through all the tenant commands since this affects all service members aboard the base. As of right now, we don’t have an estimation of when it will be complete.”

Akers acknowledged the steps needed might be an inconvenience, but said the rules are in place to help the military.

“Without these rules, service members won’t be able to exercise their Second Amendment (right),” Akers added. “The provision in the state law allows for service members not (residents of) this state the opportunity to get their CCW (permit).”

For more information about how to get a pistol or CCW permit, visit the Onslow County Sheriff’s office in Jacksonville. To view a sample command authorization letter, go to marines.mil/unit/mcblejeune/Pages/pmo/Useful%20Information.aspx.

Most early dawn hours find Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune Marines yawning into the new day with a variety of muscle building workouts. Marines and sailors aboard the base carve out a piece of turf to call their own every morning so they can put their bodies through their daily dose of physical training. But the Health Promotion and Wellness team aboard MCB Camp Lejeune knows that healthy service members need to be more than physically fit and mentally tough: they need to be properly fed.

The Healthy Heart Class offered by Naval Hospital Camp Lejeune’s Health Promotion and Wellness team kicks off another course this afternoon. The class focuses on cardiovascular health and brings to the table Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension, better known as the DASH diet.

“The fact that you guys go out and exercise all the time, doesn’t mean that you can eat anything you want whenever you want,” said John Swett, the coordinator for the Healthy Heart Class and a health educator for Naval Hospital Camp Lejeune. “I don’t care how fit a Marine is, it doesn’t mean that he is healthy.”

Swett said health professionals aboard the base noticed a need to address cardiovascular risks for base personnel several years ago. Many of the younger service members, often in their early and mid20s, needed treatment for cardiovascular problems.

The DASH diet offers an easy way to attack one of the most important areas of heart health, a balanced diet. It is endorsed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture as an ideal eating plan for Americans, and U.S. News and World Report ranked it as the best overall diet for a second year in a row. But, it doesn’t take a nutritional specialist to follow this diet.

DASH, originally developed by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute in 1992, is a very simple diet plan, said Glenda Aultowski, community health nurse for Health Promotion and Wellness, NHCL. “There’s nothing difficult about it. People have more difficulty, if they have difficulty at all, learning to simplify what they eat.”

DASH limits the intake of sweets and red meats, while encouraging healthier alternatives. “It has everything. It has fruits, it has vegetables and proteins,” said Aultowski, who later interjected, “french fries are not vegetables.”

It’s a diet for a broad spectrum of people, and DASH can lead to more than just a happy heart. The DASH diet benefits people with various chronic illnesses, and it has some nice perks to round it out. “On top of everything else, the one thing that gets people to go on a diet on their own is weight loss,” said Aultowski. “If you’re using the DASH diet anyway for health conditions, a bonus is you lose weight.”

The problem is that many of the people that attend the class already have chronic heart problems. Swett wants people to come in before a chronic illness has a chance to take hold. The Healthy Heart Class, like many of the classes offered by the Health Promotion and Wellness team, is about having a healthy lifestyle. This lifestyle is not limited to individuals, but also applies to parents with children.

“It’s significant that we are beginning to have problems with children and young adolescents,” said Aultowski. “The family is that adolescent’s lifestyle. So when we change the lifestyle of an adolescent, we try to change the lifestyle of the family.”

Like DASH, the Health Promotion and Wellness team offers a multi-pronged approach toward a healthier lifestyle.

The Healthy Heart Class offers recipes, a DASH diet book and they have the expert “hook-up”.

“We have specialists coming out to teach this information. These are specialists that participants can actually ask questions then and there,” said Swett.

Participants have one-on-one opportunities with the specialists after each period of instruction. The class brings in a registered dietitian, professional fitness trainers and a registered pharmacist.

The class is broken down into four one-hour sessions: cardiac mechanics, nutrition and heart disease, cardiac medications and exercise and heart disease. Numerous information ranging from heart function to healthy snacking are provided in addition to the expert advice that participants receive.

New courses start the first Thursday of every month, with classes each Thursday afternoon. The first three classes run from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., and the last class runs from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.

Health Promotion and Wellness offers several other classes ranging from tobacco cessation to diabetes management. Their classes are open and free to active-duty personnel and their families, retired military, their families and Department of Defense employees. Anyone interested in attending a course or seeking information can call 451-3712.

OFF-LIMITS ESTABLISHMENTS The following businesses are designated by the base commander as “off-limits” Bell Auto Salvage II at 136 Abbits Branch Rd., Hubert, N.C. Botta Booms (A.KA. Private Dancer) at 3054 Wilmington Highway, Jacksonville, N.C. Carland at 2911 Route 17/ G.W. Highway Tabb, V.a.

Cash-N-Advance at 2235 Lejeune Blvd., Jacksonville, N.C. Centennial Enterprises, Inc. at 1489 East Thousand Oaks Blvd. Suite 2, Thousand Oaks, Calif.

(Headquarter’s Office) Club Mickey’s at 4441 Richlands Highway, Jacksonville (Closed) Coastal Smoke Shop D’s Drive Thru at 226 Wilmington Highway, Jacksonville, N.C. D’s Quick Mart at Richlands, N.C. Dash-In at 1316 Hargett Street, Jacksonville, N.C. Discount Tobacco G & H at Western Boulevard, Jacksonville, N.C. Doll House at Highway 258 West, Jacksonville, N.C. Easy Money Catalog Sales at 233-F Western Blvd., Jacksonville, N.C. Express Way at 1261 Gum Branch Road, Jacksonville, N.C. Fantasies at 4951 Richlands Highway, Jacksonville, N.C. Hip Hop and Hookahs at 311 South Marine Boulevard, Jacksonville, N.C. Illusions Richlands Highway, Jacksonville, N.C. Jacksonville Speedway Auto Parts (A.K.A. Raceway Auto Parts & Raceway Used Auto Parts) at 401 Blue Creek Elementary School Road Joshua Experience/Club Access at 200 Golden Oak Court, Virginia Beach, V.a.

King’s Drive Thru at 1796 Gum Branch Road, Jacksonville, N.C. Laird’s Auto and Truck Repair at 1197 Piney Green Rd. Jacksonville, N.C.

Moe’s Mart at 2105 Belgrade Swansboro Road, Maysville, N.C. One Stop Shop at 501 Corbin Street, Jacksonville, N.C. Par Tech (A.K.A. Military Circuit of Jacksonville) at 487-A Western Blvd., Jacksonville, N.C. Playhouse at 6568 Richlands Highway, Jacksonville, N.C. Pleasure Palace at Highway 17, Jacksonville, N.C. Private Pleasures (A.K.A. Carriage House) at 5527 Highway 258, Jacksonville, N.C. Reflection Photo at 353 Western Blvd., Jacksonville, N.C. Smart Buy Jacksonville, N.C. Smitty’s R&R at Highway 17, Jacksonville, N.C. Southern Comfort at 2004 Highway 172, Sneads Ferry, N.C. Speed Mart at 2601 Piney Green Road, Jacksonville, N.C. Student Assistance Company at 244 South Randal Road, Suite III Eglin, I.L. Talk of the Town II (barbershop is not off limits) at 114 Texie Lane, Jacksonville, N.C. Tender Touch (A.K.A. Baby Dolls) at Highway 258, Jacksonville, N.C. Tobacco Alley at 521 Yopp Road, Unit 106, Jacksonville, N.C. Tobacco Club at 487-B Western Boulevard, Jacksonville, N.C. Tobacco For Less at 439 Western Boulevard, Jacksonville, N.C. Tobacco House Cigarette Center at 1213-C Country Club Rd., Jacksonville, N.C. Tobacco Leaf at 215 Western Boulevard, Jacksonville, N.C. Veterans Affairs Service at Jacksonville, N.C. (This is a private organization not affiliated with the Department of Veterans Affairs or the VA Outpatient Clinic.)

Hotline numbers to report fraud, waste, abuse and corruption Department of Defense 800-424-9098 Inspector General, Marine Corps 703-614-1348/1349/1698 Camp Lejeune (Recorded line) 451-3928 Hearing impaired 451-2999 To report business fraud 451-3928

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208 RIVERSIDE DR. 2 bedroom, l.5 bath house with utility room and carport in nice neighborhood convenient to Courthouse Bay. No pets. $675 Realty World-Ennett & Associates 910-327-3600

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Situated on over a 1/2 acre lot just minutes to Stone Bay and Topsail Island beaches! Lois Hutchins 910-330-4481 176 HAWS RUN RD. 3BR/2BA Price Reduced! $159,900. $99 move-in.

Wonderful new home only minutes from CL. Close to schools. 2-car garage, stainless app., fireplace, rear covered patio, fenced yard. 1 acre lot.

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2 ROOM BUNGALOW $44,950-Perfect for first time homeowner! On 3/4 acre lot, just painted inside & out, new carpet will soon be installed. Has loads of potential and is a bargain at $44,950.

Call 910-347-4050 or 910-686-6539 205 Portland Place $206,000- Just reduced! Hubert home in Trailwoods.

Bonus room, formal dining, ceramic tiled kitchen with stainless steel appliances. Master suite w/his & her closets, jacuzzi tub, oversized shower, privacy fenced yard with a large deck for entertaining. Low traffic cul-de-sac, extra parking pads & close to the beaches. Pamela Valdes 910-3309138 262 CEDARWOOD DRIVE, SWANSBORO $124,000 Better than New and ready to move in! Located between Camp Lejeune and Cherry Point. Call Bluewater Real Estate 866 467-3105 or www.BluewaterMilitary.com 420 HOUSTON ROAD $117,000 Updated 3BR featuring hardwood floors, separate living and dining room, and easy access to the laundry room. Private, huge fenced yard backing to a creek and trees. Perfect for first time home buyers or investors! Alyson Price 301-305-2081 504 CLYDE DRIVE $135,000 Great 4BR/2BA in Northwoods subdivision.

New roof, new vinyl, new windows, new exterior and interior doors. All hardwood through out the house has been refinished. HVAC and appliances replaced in 2003. Close to bases, shopping, and schools. Vikki Stumpf 910-265-6901 ENNETT TOWNHOMES- 2 bedrooms, 1.5 baths with appliances, storage room and screened porch. Located on Old Folkstone Road in Sneads Ferry convenient to MARSOC, Courthouse Bay, beaches and schools. Affordable at $114,900. Realty World-Ennett & Associates 910-327-3600.

FOR SALE, 3BR/2BA RANCH HOME Vaulted ceilings, carpeting/tile, appliances, F/P, 2 car garage. Privacy fence, working electrical shed. Extras, maytag W/D set, additional fridge.

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GATED COMMUNITY- 1660 Chadwick Shores has 3 bedrooms (possibly 4), 3 baths and garage. Also features dining room, kitchen nook, gas log fireplace, vaulted ceilings, screened porch, fenced back yard and community dock. Short drive to base. $249,000. Realty World-Ennett & Associates 910-327-3600.

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SMALL COMPUTER DESK w/drawer and overhead storage, tower cabinet, pull-out keyboard station. 53”Lx 24”Wx28”H $125 OBO 910-545-3240 Lv name and contact # if no answer.

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As always, we encourage our readers to consider the many pets available for adoption at local shelters. Some of these pets are featured weekly on page D2 of The Globe.

1998 CHEVROLET LUMINA LS New tires, front brakes, OCF. Excellent condition. AT, AC, loaded. One owner, 88K miles. Call 910-455-0733 CAMARO CONVERTIBLE ‘11 Local trade, cloth top, alloys, only 5,700 miles. $28,995! Dealer. 910-798-2730.

CHEVY CAMARO ‘10 Auto, leather, alloys, sunroof, local trade. $23,995.

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2001 HD SOFTAIL NIGHT TRAIN FXSTB. Jade Sunglow green, 1 owner, 21K miles, garage kept, too many extras to list. $9,000 OBO. Call 910-554-1140.

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2006 HARLEY DAVIDSON FLSTCI Heritg softail classic, two color red with black. 10,000 miles and service completed with alot of extras. $8500 John 910-381-7004

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Corpsmen feel ‘luv’ with musical variety show AMY BINKLEY

Assistant managing editor

What’s up, doc?

Funds for a good cause, that’s what.

The North Carolina Corpsmen Memorial Foundation felt a financial boost after two sold out performances of “Luv that Doc,” a musical variety show, at the USO of North Carolina Jacksonville Center, Friday and Saturday.

“These performers and volunteers have put more than 150 hours of preparation into these shows,” said John Moore, the show’s producer and member of the foundation. “It’s a cooperative effort. (Everyone at the USO put their) heart into this.

Almost every inch (of the building) is being used.”

The foundation suffered a major financial hit last year after inclement weather put a damper on a fundrais-

ing concert, but plans for the proposed monument to Navy corpsmen seem to be back on track.

Moore, a retired corpsman himself, has collaborated with several local entertainers over the past few months to create a series of performances that will take place throughout the year to raise money for the memorial.

“We decided to do something,” he explained. “The further along we got with the planning, the more people started getting involved. We have performers from Virginia and all over.”

The USO of N.C. Jacksonville Center has always been a beacon for bright entertainers. From Elvis to Bob Hope, its halls are haunted with entertainment history.

The question planners were forced to face, however, was whether or not a variety show still had a place in a SEE DOC 4D

Photos by Amy Binkley

(Top) Kris Burritt performs her opening act at the “Luv That Doc” musical variety show at the USO of North Carolina Jacksonville Center, Saturday. (Above) Local performer Jesse Henle sings during the “Luv That Doc” musical variety show, a fundraiser for the Corpsmen Memorial Foundation, at the USO of North Carolina Jacksonville Center, Saturday. (Right) Members of The Classics spotlight Staff Sgt. Daniel Stoy, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, while singing at the “Luv That Doc” musical variety show, Saturday.

Photos by Amy Binkley

(Above left) Guests stand to pay honor to fallen service members during a portion of the “Luv That Doc” variety show, a fundraiser for the Corpsmen Memorial Foundation, at the USO of North Carolina Jacksonville Center, Saturday. (Above right) Shannon Book (far right) and his band, Deliberately Broken, debut their new song “Blood Angel” in dedication to corpsmen at the fundraising variety show held at the USO of North Carolina Jacksonville Center, Saturday.

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Thriller keeps audiences hanging on ‘Ledge’ Now playing at Camp Lejeune “MAN ON A LEDGE” (PG-13) “Man on a Ledge” is a thriller drama about an ex-cop turned con.

The story centers on a fugitive claiming his innocence and feigning an attempt to commit suicide by jumping off a ledge, while his brother carries out a massive diamond heist.

Sam Worthington (“Avatar,” “The Debt”) stars as Nick Cassidy, a former policeman who is now a wanted fugitive.

Nick was wrongly convicted and now stands on the ledge of a high-rise building, ready to jump.

The New York Police Department officer immediately responded with SWAT and tactical command along with firefighters.

Elizabeth Banks (“Our Idiot Brother”) co-stars as Lydia Mercer, a police psychologist and hardnosed New York Police Department hostage negotiator who tries to talk him down. She apparently was personally requested by Nick, all part of a master plan.

As this plot develops, things aren’t as straightforward and clear cut as they appear to be.

The longer they are on the ledge, the more Lydia realizes that he might have an ulterior motive.

Also starring is Jamie Bell (“The Eagle”) as Joey Cassidy, Nick’s brother, and Genesis Rodriguez, his brother’s

street-smart girlfriend Angie, who are planning a big diamond heist from David Englander, a wealthy real-estate developer, played by Ed Harris (“Gone Baby Gone”).

Also appearing are Kyra Sedgwick (TV’s “Closer”) as his partner in crime, Suzy Morales; Anthony Mackie (“What’s Your Name”) as Mike Ackerman; and Titus Welliver (“The Town”) as Nathan Marcus.

Asger Leth (“The Five Obstructions”) directed this taut drama that was inspired by the Stephen King short story “The Ledge.”

The film was entirely shot in New York City.

“Man on a Ledge” is a somewhat exciting drama with a rather preposterous plot.

Now playing in Jacksonville “SAFE HOUSE” (R) “Safe House” is an action spy thriller about a CIA agent turned rogue.

Denzel Washington (“Unstoppable,” “American Gangster”) stars as Tobin Frost, a legendary spy who turned rogue and has eluded capture for almost a decade.

One of the best men that the CIA has ever trained, the brilliant exintelligence officer has betrayed assets and sold military codes to enemies of the state.

Now, CIA’s most dangerous traitor stuns the intelligence community when he surfaces in South Africa.

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Ryan Reynolds (“Green Lantern,” “The Proposal”) stars as Matt Weston, a rookie agent who for the past year has been frustrated by his inactive, backwater post in Cape Town.

The loyal company man and “housekeeper” of a CIA-operated safe house has been waiting for an opportunity to prove himself.

When the first and only occupant proves to be the most dangerous operative he will ever meet, Weston gets ready for action.

When the safe house to which Frost is remanded to is attacked by brutal mercenaries, Weston is forced to help the man escape.

FRIDAY “Man on a Ledge,” PG-13, 6:30 p.m.; “The Grey,” R, 9:15 p.m.

SATURDAY FREE SHOWING “The Smurfs,” PG, 3:30 p.m.; FREE PREMIERE “John Carter,” PG-13, 7 p.m.

SUNDAY FREE SHOWING “Cars 2,” PG, 3:30 p.m.; “One for the Money,” PG-13, 6:30 p.m.

TUESDAY “Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” R, 7:30 p.m.

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ROMAN CATHOLIC Saint Francis Xavier Chapel (Bldg. 17) Weekend Mass: Saturday 5 p.m., Sunday 8 a.m. & 11 a.m.

Weekday Masses: Monday through Thursday 11:45 a.m.

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament First Friday of every month: 11:45 a.m.

Benediction at 6 p.m.

Holy Day Masses: As announced, 11:45 a.m. & 6:30 p.m.

Confession: Saturday 3:45 to 4:45 p.m.

Or by appointment, by calling 451-3210

FRIDAY “Contraband,” R, 7 p.m.; “Red Tails,” R, 9:30 p.m.

SATURDAY “Red Tails,” R, 7 p.m.; “Haywire,” R, 9:30 p.m.

SUNDAY “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,” PG-13, 3 p.m.; “Haywire,” R, 6 p.m.

MONDAY “Haywire,” R, 7 p.m.

WEDNESDAY “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,” PG-13, 7 p.m.

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LATTER DAY SAINTS Camp Geiger Chapel Worship Service: Sunday 5 p.m.

Courthouse Bay: Sunday 2:30 p.m.

For more information, call 381-5318.

2T7:1 LIVE (Youth Group) Meets in Bldg. 67 (Second Deck in Classroom 2) Sunday from 5 to 7 p.m.

PROTESTANT Main Protestant Chapel (Bldg. 16) Worship Service: Sunday 10 a.m.

Children’s Church and Youth Service provided

Tarawa Terrace Chapel Main TT Chapel (Bldg. TT-2469) Worship Service: Sunday 10:30 a.m.

Courthouse Bay Chapel Main Courthouse Bay Chapel (Bldg. BB-16) Worship Service: Sunday 9 a.m. & Wed. 6:30 p.m.

Camp Geiger Chapel Main Camp Geiger Chapel (Bldg. TC 601) Worship Service: Sunday 5 p.m.

Camp Johnson Chapel Main Camp Johnson Chapel (Bldg. M-101) Worship Service: Sunday 8:30 a.m.

JEWISH The Jewish Chapel (Bldg. 67) Sabbath Service: Friday 7 p.m.

Jewish School: Sunday 10 a.m.

For information about other faith provisions (Muslim, Buddhist, etc), call 451-3210.

Director Daniel Espinosa (“Easy Money,” “Outside Love”) filmed this riveting movie in Cape Town South Africa.

“Safe House” is an exciting espionage thriller with a great talented cast, state of the art photography and editing.

Ms. Huneycutt is the public affairs assistant at the base Public Affairs Office.

For information on concerts, festivals, special events and classes up and down the Carolina coast, check out What’s happenin’ Carolina each week. To add your event, e-mail amy.binkley@pilotonline.com. Space is limited to availability.

Dr. Seuss birthday party Tomorrow, 4 to 5 p.m.

You could not, would not, want to miss a celebration such as this. Make no excuse.

You love Dr. Seuss. Kids ages 3 to 10 years old are invited to attend the beloved children’s author’s birthday extravaganza at the Harriotte B. Smith Library aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune. Come dressed as your favorite character, like the Cat in the Hat or an eskimo fish. Pre-registration is required. For more information, call 451-3026.

Preparation workshop Tomorrow, 1 to 3 p.m.

Are you getting out soon? Gather tips on landing a job at this free workshop to prepare for the upcoming job fair aboard MCB Camp Lejeune. You’ll receive information on how to dress appropriately, what to bring with you, what types of questions you should expect from employers and what questions you should have for the employers. This workshop is open to all authorized Department of Defense identification cardholders and you must pre-register. For more information, please call 449-9706.

Contradance Tomorrow, 7 p.m.

In honor of St. Patrick’s Day and St. Columcille of Scotland, the Onslow County Farmers’ Market Association and Kingsfriend Music invite you to dance some Scottish and Irish country jigs at the farmers’ market located at 4024 Richlands Highway, Jacksonville, N.C. Bagpiper Paul Davis will be performing. Bring the whole family for a unique look at different cultures. Admission is $7 for adults, $5 for students and $20 for families.

For more information, call 548-0505.

EASTERN ORTHODOX St. Nicholas Chapel, Camp Johnson Divine Liturgy: Sunday 10 a.m.

Holy Days: As announced, 6 p.m.

For more information, call 450-0991.

Midway Park Chapel Contemporary Praise & Worship Worship Service: Sunday 10:30 a.m.

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St. Patty’s Day Picnic March 10, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Experience the luck of the Irish at the Tarawa Terrace Community Center aboard the MCB Camp Lejeune housing area. Enjoy Irish music, while the kids play on inflatables, compete in games and win prizes. There will also be a limited supply of free green food to tempt your tastebuds. The event is open to all authorized Department of Defense identification cardholders and no registration is required. For more information, call 450-1687.

Job Fair and Education Expo March 21, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Come meet directly with companies that want to hire our best military service members.

Be prepared for on-site interviews, dress to impress,and have your resumes ready for employers. Discover all the educational opportunities that are available and gather information about distance learning as well.

Due to safety concerns, no children allowed.

For more information, call 449-9706.

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Anna Downer Youngs, the field staff director of Discipleship Network of America’s Young Women’s Ministry, speaks at a luncheon held by the Protestant Women of the Chapel. She was there to speak about the her experience as a military child during a presentations titled “Five Things Every Daughter Wants Her Parents To Know.”

Luncheon offers peek into upcoming ‘Building Stronger Families’ conference LANCE CPL. JACKELINE M. PEREZ RIVERA Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune

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hildren of all backgrounds often feel that parents cannot see things from their perspective, and military children handle a unique set of circumstances that may cause a higher sense of isolation than their peers outside of the military community.

Some parents aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune decided to take steps to learn about what their children go through, during a luncheon sponsored by the Protestant Women of the Chapel at the Paradise Point Officers’ Club, Feb. 22.

The luncheon included a presentation by Anna Downer Youngs, the field staff director of Discipleship Network of America’s Young Women’s

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Ministry, titled “Five Things Every Daughter Wants Her Parents to Know.”

“As a parent you want to give your children what they need, but if you didn’t grow up in a military family, you may not know what their struggles are,” said Youngs.

Youngs’ father is a former Marine who founded DNA ministries.

Young said the culture of perfectionism and the focus on performance that makes the military effective can wreak havoc on youth already facing crises of identity.

“We know we are imperfect beings, but when we reach the limit of our ability, we feel like

we’re lost,” said Young. “We feel like we’re worthless. In the military, there is no room for failure, but in a family there has to be room for failure.

“When the military culture becomes a family’s culture, it can really affect the way parents and children view themselves,” she continued.

Her speech focused on what helped her when she struggled with her parents.

The “Five Things Every Daughter Wants Her Parents to Know” were that daughters want quality time with their parents, grace, unconditional acceptance, two-way dialogue and for their parents to be open with them.

Youngs shared anecdotes, and, after her speech, spoke to parents individually about their experiences.

Juliet Parmiter, a member of the Protestant Women of the Chapel and former Marine, found the speech beneficial.

She gained an insight into the relationship between parents and children. She said sometimes parents can be led by their emotions and that it is important to seek advice.

While the event was marketed toward women, she felt fathers had a lot to gain by going.

“The investment in time with classes and workshops helps your relationship with

your family,” said Petty Officer 2nd Class Alex Smalley, a father of three young girls who attended the event so that he could learn how to maintain a good relationship with his daughters.

Smalley added that it didn’t matter how minor the event was, that families would see the benefits as time passed.

The luncheon was a kickoff event for the Protestant Chapel’s upcoming free family life conference for parents and teenagers, called “Building Stronger Families.”

Youngs’ parents will speak along with her and her husband. It is slated to take place March 11 from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Paradise Point Officers’ Club aboard MCB Camp Lejeune.

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Acclaimed violinist Jason Adams keeps the music cool as he plays his electric violin for audiences at the “Luv That Doc” music variety show, a fundraiser for the Corpsmen Memorial Foundation, at the USO of North Carolina Jacksonville Center, Saturday.

DOC FROM 1D town where the population is dominated by military.

If ticket sales were any indication, it looks like the troops still like to be entertained even on their home turf.

“My goal is to bring things back to the heart of the town, but to do that, we have to offer them a quality product,” Moore explained.

“Jacksonville has every bit as much Photo by Amy Binkley potential and talent for entertainment (as Saluting fallen service members, anywhere else).”

15-year-old trumpeter Karlis The show featured a unique blend of acts, Hardesty plays “Taps” at the USO of ranging from jazz and grunge rock to good old North Carolina Jacksonville Center, fashioned comedy, and there wasn’t a bad seat in Saturday. the house.

Active-duty Marines and sailors welcomed guests, sat them at their respective tables and served them a gourmet meal while they listened to the musical talents of singers like Kris Burritt and local favorites Jane Sutton and Jesse Henle.

While the mention of a violin performance may conjure up images of formality, Jason Adams, donning a pair of dark shades, proved that classical can be cool with his electronic violin. He wowed the audience with his impressive talent, enthusiasm and charisma.

Burritt dedicated her rendition of “My Funny Valentine” to all the service members who could not be with their loved ones on the romantic holiday, and Henle packed in some patriotism with “American Soldier” as images of service members in combat flashed across a big screen television.

It was 15 year-old prodigy Karlis Hardesty’s trumpet solo salute to fallen service members that shone the spotlight on the evening’s real intentions.

“I have friends I’ll never see again,” Moore stated to the crowd. “Every place a Marine has ever gone, there has been a corpsman. Tonight is about the guys who aren’t here, to honor their memories.”

Shannon Book was happy to lend a helping hand in honoring his fellow brothers and sisters in arms. He and his band, Deliberately Broken, took the stage and played through several songs, including “Welcome Home” which was met with cheers from the crowd.

For Book, a medically retired Fleet Marine Force corpsman and wounded warrior, music was his way of dealing with the aftermath of his deployment to Fallujah in 2004.

“I needed an outlet, so I started writing music,” he said.

It was during that time the song “Blood Angel” was composed. “‘Blood Angel’ is a nickname for battlefield corpsmen,” Book explained. “We have to earn the respect we get. Once we have it, though, we have it forever.”

When Book was contacted about performing and writing a tribute song, he didn’t hesitate to pull it from the shelf and began working on it with the other band members for its debut.

“We’re playing because it’s important to us,” he noted. “I can’t wait. It reminds me of the things I’ve experienced, what I’ve seen, what I’ve done.”

Petty Officer 1st Class Jason Houchins, with Naval Hospital Camp Lejeune, served six combat deployments and is the drummer for the band.

“I’ve lost some friends, so it means a lot to me,” he stated. “For me, music has been a saving grace. (Corpsmen) are the silent angels in the background.”

Several veterans were in attendance at both shows, but John Cooney, adjutant for the Military Order of the Purple Heart in Jacksonville, N.C., put things in perspective after explaining how he spent most of the day at a memorial for eight service members killed in action, including two corpsmen.

“Many of us wouldn’t be here today if it wasn’t for the Navy corpsmen,” he said.

“That’s why we’re doing this.”

Retired Col. Paul O’ Toole made an impromptu speech to Saturday night’s audience as a representative of the Marine Corps.

“The infantry’s mission is to kill but the docs’ mission is to save,” he announced.

“We’re doing this for the debt we owe our docs.”

The Classics wrapped up the evening with a couple of musical numbers, including “Hero,” which they sang to Staff Sgt. Daniel Stoy, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment.

Stoy didn’t appear much different than the other Marines in attendance, but with three Purple Heart medals at home, he couldn’t be more set apart. His gratitude for corpsmen also couldn’t have been rivaled.

“I’ve loved every corpsman that’s helped me,” he noted. “I have the utmost respect for them. If it weren’t for them, a lot of us wouldn’t be around.”

Stoy acted as the evening’s chef and stayed in the kitchen cooking for the guests.

“My dad always said, ‘What you put into your town is what you’ll get out of your town,’” he explained. “Being a part of this was a pleasure.”

While the fundraiser was a success and the reality of the building of the Corpsmen Memorial is closer than ever, Stoy’s remarks reflected those of most FMF corpsmen who have been in battle and are now called ‘hero.’

“I don’t see myself as a hero,” Stoy said simply. “I did my job, and I’d do it again.”

As the audiences left with the names of the fallen still fresh on their mind, words from the poem “I Am a Navy Corpsman” echoed through the building.

“I am proud to know in my heart that every Marine who has ever fought and every sailor who has gone to sea on ships owe their very lives to those they simply, yet respectfully know as ‘Doc.’” For more information about the Corpsmen Memorial, visit nccorpsmenmemorial.net.

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There are also some who appear to be functional on the outside, but who battle invisible wounds that can’t be fixed by a doctor with a first aid kit.

To some, losing a limb can be less painful than losing a friend.

Combat stress is a part of what service members continually face. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune is becoming more aware of its cancerous effects on its warriors.

The Protestant Chapel hopes to combat this issue by inviting former Marine, Phil Downer, the president of Discipleship Network of America, to speak at the Military Family Conference at the Paradise Point Officers’ Club aboard the base, March 11.

“We’d like to give them the tools needed to find healing from within,” said Bob Uber, the director of field ministry with DNA, who will also speak at the conference.

Downer said his mission is to encourage and help service members and their families operate as a team and understand the methods of dealing with conflicts.

Downer did not always provide the dosage of helpful lessons and tips. The teacher was once a student himself.

After returning from the Vietnam War, Downer struggled with combat stress. “(After the Vietnam War), I came home with operational stress (and) posttraumatic stress disorder,” said Downer.

“I thought I left the war behind when I came home, and I married the girl of my dreams and found that I brought the war home. That war within – the pain,

the guilt, the hurt and the stories of lost friends – impacted every day of my life in a negative way.”

He added, “It hurt my marriage and my performance at work, so I carried it with me.”

Downer found that speaking to someone about what he felt was the first step toward overcoming the stress.

After overcoming his challenges, he went on to publish the book “From Hell to Eternity,” which recounts his experiences and how it impacted his family and relations. He will also be sharing the stories told in the book at the conference.

“It’s a book of hope, because it’s healing,” said Uber. “It’s a resource that he’s produced out of his own life experiences to help others, and it’s a recommended resource from a Marine to a Marine.”

Downer has been speaking to service members across the nation for more than 10 years. Families will have the opportunity to share their experiences or ask questions during the conference but will not be pressured to speak.

The goal of the conference is to inform families and units about ways to overcome combat stress.

“I talk about core values, the values of the military, the great heritage of service members and also the subjects of marriage, children, being a father, mother, husband or wife,” said Downer.

“It is very gratifying to be able to talk about this topic with the Marines, because our goal is to heal our service members.”

Uber added, America has done well to honor its military, but what they’re committed to is moving from honoring to healing them.

Downer will also be speaking to units at the officers’ club, March 12 and 13, at each units’ discretion.

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I am in a funk.

I’m not exactly sure how I got here, I’m definitely not sure how to get out and I know without a shadow of a doubt that I’m not the only one who’s experiencing it.

Maybe it’s a prolonged case of the holiday blues or the despair of knowing my next three-day weekend isn’t until Memorial Day, but whatever the cause, I have set up residency in Funkytown.

The band Lipps Inc. are nowhere to be found.

If you didn’t catch that reference, I suggest a visit to Google.

The only thing worse about being a Funkytown citizen is being called out on it by a tourist – someone who is just driving through the metaphorical community because of a bad hair day or a slow moving traffic jam.

My initial reaction to these people is to listen

Maybe it’s a prolonged case of the holiday blues or the despair of knowing my next three-day weekend isn’t until Memorial Day, but whatever the cause, I have set up residency in Funkytown. and smile politely while secretly plotting to switch the sugar by the coffeemaker with salt.

However, when you’re being confronted on your uncharacteristic behavior by those who’ve known you for more than a decade, there is no running from the truth, and plans of sabotage are foiled.

They could retaliate and replace my bold roasted breakfast blend with the reprehensible decaf coffee hidden in the back of the freezer.

I was forced to take this into consideration last weekend when not one but three of my close friends challenged my well-rehearsed lie that everything was “fine.”

Giving detailed descriptions that would hold up in any court, they disputed my claim and made me face the facts – something is wrong.

I have yet to enter a plea, but self-examination seemed inevitable.

My findings thus far

have simply been the realization that I am elbowdeep in a pool of funk.

It wasn’t until a general perusing of my Facebook newsfeed and a post from one of my mentors that I caught sight of what may be my ticket out of this season.

Following a link that under normal circumstances I would probably have ignored, I was taken to a story about Harriet Tubman, the AfricanAmerican abolitionist who helped sneak 300 slaves to freedom through the “Underground Railroad” without losing one person.

“If you hear the dogs, keep going,” Tubman once said. “If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there’s shouting after you, keep going. Don’t ever stop.

Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.”

I don’t know what it was about the quote that stopped me in my tracks and brought tears to my eyes. Perhaps it was her courage, her persistence, or the fight within her that sparked my interest, but I found it was much more than that.

Tubman knew her ‘why,’ and I was jealous.

She understood why she was risking her life time and again. She was free, and her mission was to bring others into that same freedom. Her steadfast persistance made her a hero, and her resolve saved lives.

Have you ever asked yourself what your why was?

Why do you do the things you do? Why do you stand up for certain causes? Why are you friends with some people?

Why are you working that job?

In this community, a common unspoken question is why did you join the Marine Corps? If you don’t know the answer to this, consider reading

or listening to stories of World War II veterans or Purple Heart recipients.

I can’t even begin to fathom what your answers might be, but I think we were all honest about at least some of our inspirations, the truth of the matter would be that we don’t have a clue.

Who knew that a three-letter word could cause so much confusion?

I’m convinced that children know the power behind “why.” They wear down their victim by using the unsubtle strategy of asking a billion times in a row, and usually, whether it’s out of exasperation or frustration the truth comes out.

I was that kid.

Heck, I’m still that kid. It’s one of my biggest weapons in my journalistic arsenal.

However, now that the tables are turned, I find myself in unfamiliar waters. What exactly is my driving force and is it significant enough to keep me going? What is my ‘why?’

Do you know yours?

Right now, I can’t tell you that I have all the answers or even the one I’m actually looking for.

All I know is that Funkytown is not the place for me, and though I have many more why’s I’m figuring out, there is one I know for sure.

Why do I write?

I write because I must and that is enough.

I don’t know which why you’re trying to answer or what you will discover once it is asked.

Your why’s are vastly different from mine, but I’m learning that the answers aren’t nearly as important as the initial question.

When you figure out your why, feel free to let me know. Just don’t look me up in Funkytown because I’m packing my bags.

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Stop running, return home NAVY CAPT. MILTON GIANULIS

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Adam and Eve enjoyed life in God’s presence before they disobeyed God in the garden of paradise by eating the forbidden fruit. The prodigal son – the young man who asked for his inheritance from his father, was granted it, went off on his own to a strange land and squandered it all in loose living – once enjoyed life in his father’s house as well.

Adam and Eve delighted in walking with God, but they sought something more. The son also longed for something else and thought he could, do better on his own.

After Adam and Eve sinned, they began to fear God and tried to hide from him. The son left home and went as far away as he could perhaps for similar reasons. In his arrogance, he was ashamed to be close to his father.

Many young people are like the prodigal son.

I have met many a young Marine or sailor who enlisted for this very reason, and many of them were right. Getting away from home and making something of their lives was the best thing they could have done, at least for those who abide by the Corps values of honor, courage and commitment.

However, not so much for those who squander their time and spend their every opportunity in drinking and partying. Perhaps they too will soon find themselves as spiritually destitute as the prodigal son found himself.

Today we also run from our father’s presence, but God is gracious and merciful. In Hebrews, God continually reached out to his chosen people and spoke to them in many and diverse ways. He guided them with the law of Moses. He called them back from when they strayed from him through the voices of different prophets.

Since they could not run and hide from the prophets – like Adam and Eve attempted to do from God’s voice – they chose instead to do away with his messengers. They stoned and killed the prophets.

Today we have developed similar, but more sophisticated ways of running away from our father.

We have plenty of free time to engage in all sorts of fun and entertaining things, but don’t seem to find the time for God. We say we are too busy to come to church, too preoccupied to engage in prayer, too involved with our own social life to be involved with God’s house.

Adam tried to hide behind the trees in the garden. We hide behind both our work, play and social lifestyle. They are all excuses. The prodigal son ran off to a distant land; we run around on Saturday night and find ourselves spiritually distant from our father. Why? We keep trying to run away from God and his church, but he keeps calling out to each one of us personally through his word, even through the very message you are reading right now.

He cares for you. He loves you. You belong to him. He wants you for his very own. He wants you to spend eternity with him in paradise. He wants you to return to home. He watches from a distance. He calls you persistently and in so many different ways: “My son, my daughter, where are you?”

When the prodigal son “came to himself ” and realized the mess he got himself into, he repented—that is, he decided to stop his foolish lifestyle, return to his father in humility, admitting his error, seeking forgiveness, begging not to be received back as the son, but simply as any one of the father’s hired servants. And then he went home. Can’t we do the same?

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