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Friday, September 7, 2018 Vol. 53, No. 35 Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, S.C.
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Warrior Ethos: Marine Corps inspires boxer
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Photos by Sgt. Brittney Vella
Cpl. Oubigee Jones works on his boxing techniques aboard Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, Aug. 30. “Just like with boxing, when you strike you are reaching forward, off balance; it’s the same with the Marine Corps,” said Jones, an administrative specialist with Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron. “I have to reach, push myself beyond what I can do to find that balance in life.” arts,” Jones said. “I had already been playStory by Cpl. Ashley Phillips ing soccer since I was four and had it not Photos by Sgt. Brittney Vella been for that night, I most likely would have focused on soccer. I chose boxing and “Where I grew up was a rough part of I picked it up very easily.” town,” Cpl. Oubigee Jones said. “I grew up For Jones, boxing has always brought in the streets of south Dallas, the hood balance to his life. Neither his coaches or basically. Everyone started fighting at a his mother condoned fighting outside the young age, whether it be to defend them- ring, yet she wanted him to be confident selves or to earn their stripes.” and be able to stand up for himself. With It all started when Jones was eight years this new training came new responsibility. old; he was smaller then and often fell “My mother taught me the three-strikevictim to bullying. One evening he came rule,” he said. “It meant that whoever was home with a black eye — not wanting to picking on me got three strikes and three upset his mother, he told her it was from warnings. After that, she said I needed to soccer, but being his mother, she knew do whatever I needed to in order to be safe what had happened. The next week she and get away.” brought him home a stack of pamphlets. As Jones began boxing, he said it was “Pick a new hobbie,” she said. exciting, but as “They were all about boxing or martial he got better see jones page 4
U.S., partner nations plan together during UNITAS Amphibious Story by Gunnery Sgt. Zachary Dyer
Photo by Gunnery Sgt. Zachary Dyer
Paraguay Naval Infantry Maj. Christian Sosa works with a U.S. Marine during a planning team as part of UNITAS Amphibious in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Aug. 22. This will serve as a proof of concept for establishing interoperability amongst the region’s navies — and ultimately the development of a standing multinational maritime task force postured to respond to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief situations throughout the region.
A country on the coast of South America has been struck by a devastating hurricane, leaving a large number of people without water, food or shelter. Fortunately, the maritime services from several countries in the region were conducting training nearby, and are able to respond to an international request for help. That’s the scenario U.S. Marines and Sailors, along with military planners from nine other countries, recently worked through in Rio de Janeiro as part of UNITAS Amphibious 2018, Aug. 20-24. The country of “Amarelo” used in the exercise scenario doesn’t exist, but it can represent any of the countries in the Western Hemisphere regularly threatened by natural disasters. In a time when resources are finite, no single country has the means to tackle a large-scale natural disaster on its own. It will take multiple nations working together to save lives and prevent further suffering. Creating the interoperability necessary for those countries to successfully work together was the goal of this year’s UNITAS Amphibious, according to Brazilian Naval Infantry Rear Adm. Nelio de Almeida, the
commander of Brazil’s Marine Doctrine Training Command. The partner nation militaries working together need to establish common processes, command and control methods, and avenues for exchanging information. The knowledge gained and the processes put into place will set the stage for next year’s iteration of UNITAS Amphibious, when the participating countries actually take to the sea to conduct a humanitarian assistance and disaster relief field training exercise. Over the course of the last year, the Marines of U.S. Marine Corps Forces, South have worked with partner nations to create a multinational maritime task force, bringing together personnel and equipment from multiple nations to sail on naval vessels from multiple nations as a way to pool resources and respond to natural disasters and humanitarian crises in the region. This year’s UNITAS Amphibious is seen as building block for that task force, driving military planners from across the Western Hemisphere to plan through how an actual multinational task force would operate while responding to a natural disaster. see unitas, page 7