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Combat Camera in the Field: Nov-Dec 2011
U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Jacob D. Marler with India Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines, Regimental Combat Team 8, walks with a disabled Afghan boy during a security patrol in Sangin, Afghanistan Nov. 15, 2011. Marines conducted security patrols to help maintain the security in the surrounding areas. To see more Read more…
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Reception for injured combat cameraman Dec. 30
For those of you in the Quantico Area on Dec. 30, there will be a reception for injured combat cameraman LCpl Jorge Ortiz from 1000 to 1130 at the National Museum of the Marine Corps. Ortiz, a triple amputee, was taking pictures of a captured weapons cache in Sangin, Afghanistan, Read more…
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Combat Camera merit award winners announced
And the winners are: Corporal William T. Perkins Combat Cameraman of the Year SSgt. Michael K. Kropiewnicki, MCAS Iwakuni. Captain Charles G. Grow Combat Camera Section of the Year 1 Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward)/ Regional Command (Southwest) Combat Camera Helmand Province, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Combat Art 1st, 2nd and Read more…
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Purple Heart Criteria Amended
This MARADMIN specifically revises the award criteria for mild traumatic brain injury/concussions and is retroactive to Sept. 11, 2001. The revisions contained within this MARADMIN will have a major impact on a sizable population of young Operation Enduring Freedom(OEF)/Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) vets who previously may have been ineligible for Read more…