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4 hrs ago | WECT-TV Wilmington

Navy to fund Lejeune water contamination studies

The Navy will pay for the re-analysis a 10-year-old government study on whether contaminated water harmed babies at Camp Lejeune.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Marine Corps, US News

Thu Dec 03, 2009

Marine Corps Times

Corps to add second RCT in Afghanistan

The Marine Corps will add a second regimental combat team to supplement U.S. forces in Afghanistan, and it apparently has at least three infantry battalions ready to deploy.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Marine Corps, US News, World News, Asia, Afghanistan, Mountain Warfare Training Center, Marine Corps Base Hawaii

Windsock

Base Marines ready to go if called

Marines stationed at Cherry Point say they will be ready if called to be part of a troop surge in Afghanistan.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Marine Corps, US News, World News, Asia, Afghanistan, Cherry-Point, NC, US Politics, Barack Obama

Jacksonville Daily News

CNN to air special on Camp Lejeune water contamination

A water contamination problem aboard Camp Lejeune that has been the subject of controversy for decades will receive major national media attention for the first time Thursday night.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Marine Corps, US Navy, Tallahassee Metro, US News

Wed Dec 02, 2009

WITN

Camp Lejeune Marine Dies In Afghanistan

A Camp Lejeune Marine has died as a result of a hostile incident while conducting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Marine Corps, US News

The State

At Camp Lejeune, Marines are ready to go

In this town, where nearly everyone wears a Marine uniform or has a friend or family member in the corps, people seemed relieved Tuesday that President Barack Obama had decided to increase U.S. troop strength in Afghanistan.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Marine Corps, US News, World News, Asia, Afghanistan, Home Listing, Home, Jacksonville, NC

Tue Dec 01, 2009

Windsock

Former Marine asking for retrial after a other than honorablea discharge

A former Marine who received an "Other Than Honorable" administrative discharge after testing positive for drugs has launched a Web campaign declaring his innocence and asking for a retrial.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Marine Corps, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Drug Testing

Mon Nov 30, 2009

NBC Action News

Metro Marine Takes His Final Resting Place

Family, friends, and fellow military members said their final goodbyes Monday as Lance Cpl.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Marine Corps, US News

Sun Nov 29, 2009

Jacksonville Daily News

PTSD support center to open

Jacksonville is now home to one of only eight sites in the nation to host a new psychiatric program specifically designed to assist active-duty troops and their families struggling with mental and behavioral health issues.

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Related Topix: Jacksonville Metro, Jacksonville, NC, US Military, US Marine Corps, US Army, Camp Lejeune, US News

Sat Nov 28, 2009

MilitaryCity.com

All Marines should get H1N1 vaccine by spring

Active-duty and reserve Marines should receive H1N1 influenza vaccinations no later than March 1, Marine officials say.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Marine Corps, US News, US Navy

Fri Nov 27, 2009

Sun Journal

Thanksgiving with the troops

At a long table covered in a white tablecloth and set with fine china, the Shattucks, their children, grandchildren and four Marines from Camp Lejeune sat holding hands with their heads bowed in prayer while 12-year-old Erin McCarthy asked God to watch over America's troops.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Marine Corps, US News, Life, Holidays, Thanksgiving, Camp Johnson, Fairfield Harbour, NC

Thu Nov 26, 2009

Windsock

Help welcomed for Wounded Warrior program

The local community has helped Marines in Camp Lejeune Wounded Warrior Barracks get home for Christmas for three of the past four years and its help is needed again.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Marine Corps, US News, Craven County, NC, New Bern, NC

Wed Nov 25, 2009

Marine Corps Times

Not everyone sold on combat policing training

Grunts everywhere, prepare to face the Crips of Kabul. The same techniques used by inner-city cops to fight street gangs in the U.S. are headed to Afghanistan - this time to root out insurgents, collect intelligence on improvised explosive device networks and build sources in Afghan villages.

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Related Topix: World News, Afghanistan, Asia, US Military, US Army, Camp Lejeune, US Marine Corps, US News

Mon Nov 23, 2009

Jacksonville Daily News

DOD Identifies Marine Casualty

A Marine, who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom, has died, according to a release from the Department of Defense.

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Related Topix: Department of Defense, US News, US Military, US Marine Corps

WECT-TV Wilmington

Wounded veteran gets dog from Carolina Canines

A Marine Corps captain, wounded in Fallujah, has a new best friend. This yellow lab is named Titus and he now belongs to Captain Chris Ayres.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Marine Corps, US News

Sun Nov 22, 2009

Marine Corps Times

Camp Lejeune gets a $3 billion revamp

It's easy to look around this base and find buildings that date to the early 1940s.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Marine Corps, Agriculture, Science, US News

Sat Nov 21, 2009

Jacksonville Daily News

Retirement sabbatical brings lawman from Spain to Onslow County

A former Spanish military officer who recently retired as a police commissioner traveled across the Atlantic Ocean last week to tour Camp Lejeune and meet Onslow County Sheriff Ed Brown.

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Related Topix: Onslow County, NC, US Military, US Marine Corps, US Navy, US News

WVEC

New commander Marine Corps Special Operations

The Marine Corps special operations unit is getting a new commander and a new headquarters.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Marine Corps, US News

Fri Nov 20, 2009

Telegram & Gazette

Fired therapist: Stressed Marines get shoddy care

US MARINES MENTAL HEALTH Dr. Kernan Manion poses for a photograph in his officer in Hampstead, N.C., Friday, Nov.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Marine Corps, US News, Hampstead, NC, US Army, Camp Lejeune

The Albany Herald

Marine Corps Exchange reopens

Marines both active and retired, and their families, now have another place to shop in Albany for the holidays.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Marine Corps, US News, Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany, Albany Metro, Albany, GA

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