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Archive: February, 2008

Local youngsters go to the dogs

Twenty-eight children, aged three through five, visited Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany on Friday. The children were from the Lee County Head Start program. Dana Price, teacher, said the children were studying animals and fire safety during the week and their trip fit right in. At MCLB Albany, the children visited the kennels viewing a dog

CDC kids have “fun” at the dentist

Children enjoy visiting the dentist as much as adults, right? Not if you ask pre-kindergarten kids from the Child Development Center at Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany who visited the Dental Health Clinic Feb. 26. They listened attentively as a children’s book based on Dora the Explorer was read to them, and they swarmed over the chairs in the

MCLB Albany Navy corpsman earns top honors

Petty Officer 1st Class Dewel Jamerson, hospital corpsman, Naval Branch Health Clinic, Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany, knows that a military career based on hard work and a good attitude pays off. But his journey into military service almost didn’t begin with the Navy. “I first thought about the Air Force. I have an uncle who’s a colonel right

Blount Island Command supports Maritime Prepositioning Force

The mission for Marine Corps Logistic Command’s Maritime Prepositioning Force based at Blount Island, Jacksonville, Fla., is to provide prepositioned equipment and supplies that can be linked with Navy and Marine forces outside the continental United States during a crisis or incident. And one key to success is using operational logistics to meet

Local Marine to appear on History Channel

Although Hollywood has called him, he has not traded his diamond for a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, yet. 1st Sgt. William E. Bodette Jr., first sergeant, Headquarters Company, Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany, will be participating in a ten-part series on the History Channel called Battle 360. The series begins Friday and ends May 2.

Naval logistics team mulls changes

A sampling of the Executive Board of the Naval Logistics Integration program met at Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany Friday for their annual conference to review the latest proposals to streamline logistics services between the Marine Corps and Navy. Hosted by Maj. Gen. Willie J. Williams, commanding general, Marine Corps Logistics Command, the

MCA civilian-Marines deploy to Iraq

On Friday, Maintenance Center Albany sent a group of 17 civilian-Marines, mostly mechanics and welders, to the Al Anbar Province in Iraq. These volunteers will join the 15 mechanics and four welders already in the theater of operations who are on six-month deployments. “This is mostly about the MRAP project,” said Cpl. Christopher Mayrand, Marine

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