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Marines

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Base football league shifts to high gear

The Provost Marshal Office Enforcers routed S-6 Armageddon Tuesday night on crouch field here 24-8 in the fourth week of MCLB Albany tackle football. Armageddon held the lead for the majority of the first half with a full head of steam, keeping the score 8-0, but they slowly died out after the Enforcers got their second wind at halftime. With less

Base welcomes new career planner

He sits in a small office in the Headquarters Battalion building. The desk has several stacks of papers and record books arranged in piles according to their purpose for being out. The framed Parris Island poster sits on the wall behind his desk A Marine, who has just passed two years in service, sits in front of him. He places his hands on the

MCLB Albany donates computers to Sherwood Christian Academy

Sherwood Christian Academy, received a technological boost from MCLB Albany Sept. 13 when Col. Charles V. Mugno, MCLB Albany commanding officer, signed over $80,000 worth of computer equipment to Brenda McDonald, Sherwood Christian Academy administrative assistant. The donation of the 161 monitors, 166 central processing units and 47 printers is

Children take future, knowledge into own hands with base?s reading program

Sixty-seven children received recognition Sept. 9 for participating in the Base Library Summer Reading Club program during a ceremony held at the Crossroad restaurant. The program opened when librarian Amos Tookes welcomed parents and guests, and explained what the summer reading program was all about. According to Tookes, the reading program was

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MCLB Albany hosts 14th annual POW/MIA breakfast

Marines, Sailors, retirees and civilian employees gathered Friday at the Crossroad restaurant for the 14th annual POW/MIA recognition breakfast. The breakfast is held to pay tribute to Americans who were prisoners of war and to remember Americans who remain missing and action and unaccounted for. The guest speaker was retired Army Capt. Tommy

Batallion hosts blood drive, safety fair, exceeds expectations

Facilities and work sections aboard the base were barely manned as base personnel attended the Blood Drive and Safety Fair put on by headquarters batallion Friday, 10 a.m. at Covella Pond. According to Capt. Charles Byrne, S-3 operations officer and Dracut, Mass., native, the reason a safety fair was held instead of lecture-style safety briefs was

MCLB parade ground christened Schmid Field

In an evening filled with tears and emotion, Maj. Gen. Paul. M. Lee, Jr., commander of Marine Corps Materiel Command, dedicated the bases parade field to the late Maj. Gen. Clarence H. Schmid. Schmid was the first commanding general here after the consolidation of the Marine Corps Inventory Control Point and Marine Corps Supply Activity commands.

Base employee earns Exceptional Civilian Service Medal

Emblem Staff A 13-year employee at MCLB Albany was presented the Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Civilian Service Friday at a ceremony in Bldg. 3700. Harry McDole, a Chester, W.Va., native and director of G-6 operations, received the Secretary of Defense award primarily in relation to his work with the Marine Corps Year 2000 Logistics

Leadership: Leading Marines from the front

Editors note: Leadership is one of the foundations the Marine Corps is built on. It requires judgment, integrity, honesty, decisiveness and many other attributes expected of Marines in day-to-day activities. Everyone understands what leadership is, yet each of us views it and defines it a little differently. The following is Maj. Stephen Reynolds

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