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Friday, March 7, 2014 Vol. 49, No. 9 Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, S.C.
Sleeves up March 9th!
Sleeve rolling tutorial See Page 4
“The noise you hear is the sound of freedom.”
n Entertainment n News Briefs n Weather n Around The Corps n Graduates
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Read Across America comes to Laurel Bay Page 6
Stingers compete in field meet Page 7
African American History Month celebration Page 12
Active shooter exercise boosts Air Station readiness Cpl. Brady Wood Staff Writer
An active shooter exercise was held at the Middleton S. Elliot Elementary School aboard Laurel Bay, March 4. The purpose of the exercise was
to improve safety and response time in the event of an active shooter at Department of Defense schools. As the shooters walked into the school, they were immediately confronted by a civilian police officer who was posted as the school
safety officer and is on call in case of an emergency at any of the Laurel Bay schools. As the shooters moved throughout the school, role players scurried into classrooms to escape detection. During the scenario, a fog machine was activated by an exer-
cise controller in order to simulate the use of an incendiary device. Marines from the Provost Marshal’s Office arrived on the scene promptly to take down the shooters and a special response team was on their heels to check every room for wounded role players
and additional shooters. “I felt as though the exercise was very [smooth] and went really well,” said Cpl. Matthew Rentfro, a military police officer for Headquarters and Headquarters see
shooter, page 9
Reawakening junior Marines Cpl. Brady Wood Staff Writer
Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron of Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort held an allday Lance Corporal seminar at various locations aboard MCAS Beaufort and Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, Feb. 28. During the seminar, the Marines visited the Parris Island museum to learn about various bat-
Air Station Library best in the Corps’ Cpl. Sarah Cherry Staff Writer
The Marine Corps Community Service libraries aboard Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort and Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island had the highest and second highest customer satisfaction rating out of all MCCS
libraries in a two-year pilot survey to assess service quality. The Air Station received a score of 96 percent and Parris Island scored 93 percent. “Getting scores of 96 and 93 percent is very exciting,” said Rose Marie Krauss, MCCS librarian see
Library, page 14
tles in Marine Corps history. These battles include the Battle of Belleau Wood, World War II and the Battle for Chapultepec. According to Staff Sgt. Velton Hanks, a food services specialist for H&HS, some Marines were shocked by all the information they learned about these various battles. see
seminar, page 14