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Marines

News

Archive: 2011

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Buddy fishing 23 years strong

Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany hosted the 23rd annual Buddy Fishing Tournament at Covella Pond, Saturday.Eligible anglers under age 15 competed for trophies in several categories such as largest fish and most fish caught. The most fish category was judged by the combined weight of all fish caught by an individual.Overall, anglers took home 152

Click-it or Ticket campaign underway

Buckle up or it’s going to cost you - time, money and the loss of driving privileges aboard Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany.The Marine Corps Police Department here is participating in the national Click It or Ticket campaign sponsored by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Georgia Governor’s Office of Highway Safety

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Firefighters receive accolades for resuscitating electrocuted worker

For resuscitating an electrocuted contract worker, several Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany Fire and Emergency Services Department firefighters received coins from the base’s commanding officer.Col. Terry V. Williams thanked the men during a brief ceremony in Building 3500, recently, for their lifesaving efforts on March 12 around 3 p.m. at the

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MLG CG mentors corporals

To help her corporals improve their leadership skills as well as advance their careers, Maj. Gen. Tracy L. Garrett, commanding general, 4th Marine Logistics Group, New Orleans, visited here and mentored 52 of them, May 25. Garrett met with the noncommissioned officers during their two-week resident corporals’ course that began May 22 at Detachment

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Maintenance Center Albany Where the Buffalo roam

Widely known as the Marine Corps’ best kept secret, Maintenance Center Albany continues to be a force in the Overseas Contingency Operations in Afghanistan.A recent addition to their repair line portfolio is the Mine-Resistant, Ambush-Protected Buffalo, a multi-wheeled vehicle used for route clearance leading convoys down roads riddled with

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In your face ASF Marines receive security force training

Thirteen Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany Marines successfully completed Augment Security Force training hosted by the Marine Corps Police Department, here, May 26. Marines from a variety of military occupational specialties left their offices to participate in training aimed at aiding security efforts aboard the base.The purpose of the one-week

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Base hosts coyote hunt

Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany is currently hosting its first predator hunt for coyotes through June 18. The purpose of the hunt is to help control the growing population of coyotes and protect small game and domestic animals aboard the base.Hunters are only allowed to use bows during the hunt.“The predator hunting season will aid in managing

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MCLB Albany, Parris Island officials plan for Safe Haven

Considered “A City within a City,” Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany’s population might swell in size if Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C., recruits and staff had to flee from a hurricane and set up temporary residence here.To plan for that possibility, officials from both installations reviewed their annual Memorandum of Agreement

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Education, nutrition highlights new playground

The newly renovated playground at the Child Development Center here encourages children to play with a purpose - fun and education. The sounds of laughter, screaming and excited children filled the air as they came running from the building to their various age-appropriate playground areas.The new playground, which opened on April 15, after nearly

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Book connects Marine with Corps’ history

After traveling thousands of miles from the soil of the United States to the blackened sands of Iwo Jima, Japan, and surviving some of the fiercest fighting of World War II’s Pacific Campaign, one book found its way to an antique book sale in Gainesville, Ga., nearly 45 years later. The book, “Snow Goose” by Paul Gallico, can trace its history back

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