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Michiana troop returning from Afghanistan today
UPDATE: SOUTH BEND – Today 50 local reserve Marines are coming home. They've spent the last 7 months fighting in Afghanistan. The Marines are with Engineering Company B based in South Bend. They were deployed last May and spent several weeks...Tags: Science and Technology, Afghanistan
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Area Marines ship out for Camp Lejeune
South Bend Tribune Staff WriterLittle Layla Shaffer locked her arms around Cpl. Jacob Shaffer's neck and buried her face into his chest. The 2-year-old girl wasn't about to say goodbye to Daddy, whether the U.S. Marine Corps needed him or not. "It's a little of both," said Layla's...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Science and Technology, Afghanistan, CNN (tv network), Wars and Interventions
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2k walk to fulfill teen's wish
South Bend TribuneMom beamed proudly as Christen held a sign spelling out her upcoming walk to shed light on homeless military veterans. “This is big,” Eileen Sullivan said in a low tone watching her 14-year-old daughter pose for photos. “This isn&...Tags: Veterans Affairs, Learning Disability, Autism, Family, U.S. Marine Corps
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South Bend Marines preparing to leave for Afghanistan
Around 50 Marines from South Bend's Company B will leave Thursday for Camp Lejeune, North Carolina for training. They are expected to arrive in Afghanistan late this summer. The group is expected to provide security for convoys, bases, fuel and water...Tags: Afghanistan
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Explosion at Fort Bragg injures 10 military
FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — An explosion at Fort Bragg has injured 10 military personnel during an artillery exercise on the Army post in North Carolina. The explosion Monday night injured eight Marines and two Navy personnel from the 2nd Marine...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, North Carolina, Emergency Incidents, Health, Injuries and Wounds
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Missing Utah Marine's story could become TV movie
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The strange tale of a Utah Marine corporal charged with desertion after allegedly faking his own kidnapping in Iraq may be told in a television movie after all. But it may not have input from the Marine, Wassef Ali Hassoun,...Tags: Iraq, Utah, Crime, Law and Justice, FBI, Prosecution
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An unexpected surprise at woman's boot camp graduation
Adam Jarboe recently returned from Afghanistan and flown overnight into Chicago to pull off a stealth mission. Jarboe, a petty officer third class, was at Naval Station Great Lakes early Friday to surprise his wife. Dressed in the ceremonial white...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Afghanistan, Defense, U.S. Department of Defense, Armed Forces
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3 Marine officers relieved of duty after deadly training exercise
Three officers have been relieved of duty after seven Marines were killed during a training exercise at a Nevada Army facility, the Marine Corps confirmed Thursday. "The investigation is not complete, but the preliminary findings did influence the...
Tags: Armed Forces, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Sol Kramer, wholesale hobby business owner
Sol Kramer, who turned a Depression-era 15-cent balsa toy airplane business into a leading wholesale hobby empire, died of pneumonia April 24 at Hospice by the Sea in Pompano Beach, Fla. The former Pikesville resident was 96. Born in Baltimore, he was...
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Services and Shopping, Hobbies, Pompano Beach, Coral Gables
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Service news
Marine Corps Pvt. Benjamin D. Minnick, son of Joyce E. and Douglas E. Minnick of Smithsburg, recently was selected as the academic honor graduate from the Basic Combat Engineer Course. During the course at the Marine Corps Engineer School, Marine...Tags: Science and Technology
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Marine Corps identifies 7 killed in Nevada training accident
The Marine Corps released the identities Wednesday night of the seven Marines who died this week when a mortar shell exploded during a live-fire training exercise at Hawthorne Army Depot in Nevada. Those killed were Pfc. Joshua M. Martino, 19, of...
Tags: Accidental Death, Fairfield (Fairfield, Connecticut), First Aid, Armed Forces, Clearfield (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania)
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Severna Park Marine dies in Nevada military training accident
He was the teenager who wasn't embarrassed to hug his mom at Severna Park High School while other students looked on, who pitched on the Falcons' 2009 state championship baseball team, and who matured into a Marine with a swallow tattoo on his right arm....
Tags: United States Naval Academy, Maryland Zoo Baltimore, Air and Space Accidents, College Baseball, University of Maryland, College Park
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