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'Ready Battalion' competes for the Spartan Cup

Approximately 1,000 Marines, sailors and family members of 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, held their annual family day and field meet Aug. 14, 2014, at the W.P.T. Hill Field aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. The event gave members of the battalion a chance to introduce their families to the unit, and
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Sergeant Johnny Jernigan, an anti-tank missileman with 2nd Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment, from Whiteville, N.C., and Cpl. James Darius, also an anti-tank missileman with the unit, from Rally, N.C., run to the firing line to fire a FGM-148 Javelin during a live fire training exercise aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, Aug. 29, 2013. With a single missile for the javelin costing approximately $80,000, it is not easy shooting all the time, said Chief Warrant Officer 2 Eric M. Brown, the battalion gunner, of Millwood, W.Va. - Sergeant Johnny Jernigan, an anti-tank missileman with 2nd Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment, from Whiteville, N.C., and Cpl. James Darius, also an anti-tank missileman with the unit, from Rally, N.C., run to the firing line to fire a FGM-148 Javelin during a live fire training exercise aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, Aug. 29, 2013. With a single missile for the javelin costing approximately $80,000, it is not easy shooting all the time, said Chief Warrant Officer 2 Eric M. Brown, the battalion gunner, of Millwood, W.Va.


Marines take rare chance to fire missiles

Shouts of ‘Back blast area, all clear!’ followed by the roar of missiles taking flight broke the tranquil morning at G3 range aboard Camp Lejeune, N.C. as Marines with 2nd Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment took the rare opportunity to conduct live-fire training with the Javelin and tube-launched, optically-tracked, wire-guided or TOW missile systems
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1/6 gets crew-served

MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. –   A breeze blew across the field, picking up dust and depositing it on the Marines preparing themselves for an assault. The squad leader in a final attempt to motivate the Marines said only a few words, “Same as before boys, find your target and kill it.” The Marines after receiving the cue from their section
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Petty Officer 3rd Class Eduardo D. Estrada, corpsman, Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, along with two other corpsmen, helped save the life of 1st Lt. Michael Rhoads, a forward observer, who was shot in the torso, April 15, 2012. Estrada, 24, from Tucson, Ariz., stuck three needles into Rhoads to empty blocked space in his chest cavity, helping save his life. - Petty Officer 3rd Class Eduardo D. Estrada, corpsman, Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, along with two other corpsmen, helped save the life of 1st Lt. Michael Rhoads, a forward observer, who was shot in the torso, April 15, 2012. Estrada, 24, from Tucson, Ariz., stuck three needles into Rhoads to empty blocked space in his chest cavity, helping save his life.


Corpsmen rescue wounded Marine during firefight

When the Marines reached the hilltop, they knew it was going to be a rough day.They had already taken fire, and they were patrolling in an area that coalition forces had rarely been since the decade-long war began. At the top of the hill, the Marines took fire from insurgents when one of their brothers was wounded.Petty Officer 3rd Class Eduardo D.
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Sgt. Waylon Sliker, ammunition technician, 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, searches for insurgents during an indirect fire attack at Forward Operating Base Whitehouse April 10, 2012. - Sgt. Waylon Sliker, ammunition technician, 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, searches for insurgents during an indirect fire attack at Forward Operating Base Whitehouse April 10, 2012.


Supplying victory one round at a time

A Marine is useless without a rifle. A rifle is useless without ammunition. At 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, ensuring magazines are full is the job of the battalion’s sole ammunition technician. Sgt. Waylon Sliker, from Sparta, N.J., has, so far, provided more than 630,000 rounds of ammunition to keep Marines in the fight this deployment.
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Petty Officer 3rd Class Matthew Sears, a corpsman with C Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Marines, Regimental Combat Team 6 shakes hands with children who run up to him while patrolling through the Gostan valley, Nimruz province, Afghanistan. Before joining the Navy, Sears was a firefighter/EMT in his hometown of Dayton, Ohio. - Petty Officer 3rd Class Matthew Sears, a corpsman with C Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Marines, Regimental Combat Team 6 shakes hands with children who run up to him while patrolling through the Gostan valley, Nimruz province, Afghanistan. Before joining the Navy, Sears was a firefighter/EMT in his hometown of Dayton, Ohio.


From firefighter/EMT to Navy corpsman

Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Matthew Sears is always walking around with a smile as he interacts with the Marines in his unit. “I joined the Navy because (back home) I was a firefighter and an emergency medical technician, and the area was pretty saturated with people who were trying to do pretty much the same job. I had just had my son, so I
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A tank drives by to provide better security for the Marines with Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, as they prepare to search a village for Taliban fighters in the early morning, April 18, 2012. The Marines and sailors with Charlie Company took part in a month long operation where they cleared the Gostan valley of enemy forces. - A tank drives by to provide better security for the Marines with Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, as they prepare to search a village for Taliban fighters in the early morning, April 18, 2012. The Marines and sailors with Charlie Company took part in a month long operation where they cleared the Gostan valley of enemy forces.


Lejeune Marines clear Afghan valley of insurgents

As the early morning sun peeks over the mountains the Nimruz province of Afghanistan, the Marines and sailors with Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, began an operation in the Gostan Valley. The Marines staged their vehicles at the top of the hills overlooking Gorozan, the first village they were set to clear. As a show of force
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