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MARINES TEST METTLE

Marine Wing Service Support Squadron 171 finished up the force-on-force portion of Cloud Warrior 2000 at Camp Fuji, Mount. Fuji Japan. Marines units from MCAS Iwakuni and Okinawa split into four platoons, making up a red team and blue team. The teams spent five nights and six days in a tactical field environment during the exercise. "The

Marines Land On Beach: TAKE OUT TRASH

Marines from MALS-12 Support Equipment section cleared a beach June 30 without a single casualty. The enemy they faced was not an enemy of flesh and blood - it was trash. Eighteen Marines traveled 45 miles by bus to an island near the town of Kaminoseki.They chose to take the beach for themselves and for the community. What they received in return

DEFY TAKES TO THE WOODS

Twenty-seven air station children spent the week in the woods getting high -- a natural high that is. The mentors and students of the Drug Education For Youth program stayed at the Tokuji campground near Tokuyama learning about the dangers of drug and alcohol use, conflict resolution, leadership, teamwork concept, how to resist peer pressure and

FLIGHT SIMULATORS MORE THAN GAME

Looking over his shoulder, the F/A-18D pilot saw the jet behind him fire a single missle. He tried to dodge, but the explosion rocked the cockpit. Everything went black. The canopy opened and the pilot stepped out of the simulator. Though this training mission ended negatively, the pilot may have picked up enough experience to handle the

Start Your Engines

Today's sports cars are pulled around by more than 300 horses - a considerable amount of power for a car. However, Marines at the test cells have 76,000 horsepower at their fingertips daily, the equivalent of about 250 sports cars. Before engines are installed in an aircraft, they must be tested, according to Gunnery Sgt. Craig Elliott, test cell

Seat Shop ensures safety

The Seat Shop Marines of VMFA-212 maintain, inspect and repair one system on the F/A-18 Hornet that hopefully never has to be used -- the ejection seat. Seven Marines divided into a day and night crew ensure ejection seats work properly, according to Cpl. Bridget Hadden, VMFA-212 seat mechanic. "On a daily basis, we have to inspect the seats and