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Archive: 2010

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MCA employees earn merit award in safety

Maintenance Center Albany Marines’ and civilian-Marines’ significant achievements in safety and mishap prevention earned them the coveted 2009 Marine Corps Merit Award in Safety.To acknowledge their efforts, Maj. Gen. James A. Kessler, commanding general, Marine Corps Logistics Command, presented the award at the 2010 MCA Employee Recognition Day

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Flag football heats up in Game Six

It has been a thrilling week for flag football. Teams fought it out in overtime, defenses played tough and only one team remains undefeated after six games.Team Ruff took top honors this week after beating all and earning a stellar 6-0 record to start off the first half of the season. Team Ruff defeated a 4-2 Team Keating by the score of 28-13 in

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Fallen Marine receives hero’s memorial

Marines, families, residents and government officials paid tribute to fallen Marine, Cpl. Stephen Coty Sockalosky, during memorial and gravesite services Saturday in Cordele, Ga.Sockalosky, a machine gunner with 2nd Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, Camp Lejeune, N.C., was wounded during combat operations in Afghanistan Oct. 3.

Law enforcement campaign targets speeders

Slow down! This is the message base traffic enforcement officials hope will resonate with drivers aboard Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany, Ga.It happens more often than it needs to maybe because a person is unaware of the changes in speed limits on the base or because he or she is in a hurry. Speeding is a dangerous habit that could cost valuable

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Protecting MCLB: Base security manager

Editor’s note: This is the final article of a four-part series on Protecting MCLB.Secrets are meant to be kept, and it is the base security manager’s job to ensure that Marine Corps’ documents, personnel information and military assets do not fall into the wrong hands - or eyes.“Marines, civilian employees and contractors must be trusted to work on

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FSD keeps Marine Corps ‘green’ with reusable items

A group of 45 Marines, civilian-Marines and contractors here know they make a difference each day. They are the workforce that makes up Fleet Support Division. Located near the back gate in a large, blocks-long warehouse, FSD is the Marine Corps’ funnel by which consumable and secondary repairable items flow from operations in Iraq to the rest of

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Flag football season in full swing

As the fall chill fills the air, the 2010 Fall Flag Football season is heating up.Already one quarter of the way through the season, teams have shaken off the rust and have started to refine their grid iron strategies before the regular season ends Nov. 3.Underneath the lights of Crouch Field, the softball field which had its grassy outfield

Money flows again for spouses’ financial aid

The Department of Defense announced it will reopen the My Career Advancement Accounts tuition program for military spouses to new enrollees starting Oct. 25.The MyCAA program's tuition assistance will be open only to spouses of junior service members in paygrades E-1 through E-5, W-1 and W-2 and O-1 and O-2 under new restrictions announced by the

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Reminder: Smokeless tobacco use not welcome inside base buildings

Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany officials want to remind the installation community that smokeless tobacco use is prohibited in Marine Corps-controlled facilities.Base Order 5100.17B, Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany Tobacco Prevention and Control Program, outlines the rule. According to it, tobacco use refers to cigarettes, cigars, pipes,

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Improvements continue in Hill Village one year after opening

One year after its first residents moved in, the Public Private Venture Housing project here is filled to capacity and has transformed the landscape of the formerly 1950s-era track housing area to a modern 21st Century neighborhood.The residential neighborhood named Hill Village, has revitalized the overall look of the base with its

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