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Technician Course prepares CBRN for uncertainty
» See EMBARKERS, page 2
Lance Cpl. Michael H. Sharmen, 21, Arlington, Tex., and Lance Cpl. Saul Castro, 19, Destin, Fla., Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear defense specialists, Combat Logistics Regiment 17, 1st Marine Logistics Group, check the readings of the chemicals they found during the first field exercise of the five-week technician course. For the rest of the story, go to page 4.
photo by pfc. Jerrick J. griffin
Embarkers prepare, ship gear for AfghanistanStory by Lance Cpl. Jacob A. Singsank, 1st MLG PAO
MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP PENDLE-TON, Calif. – Marines are only as good as the equipment they use. Focusing efforts to the war in Afghanistan, Camp Pendle-
photo by Lance Cpl. Jacob a. Singsank
Lance Cpl. Paul M. Korger, 20, Chippewa Falls, Wis., a field military policeman with Military Police Company, Combat Logistics Regiment 17, 1st Marine Logistics Group, secures a chain to a logistics vehicle system trailer April 29.
Super Stallions stir up sand in Yuma with LS Co
MARINE CORPS AIR STATION, Yuma -- A speck of sand can have the same sensation as a thousand knives piercing through skin. With wind speeds reaching the rate of a cat-egory five hurricane, even a two hundred pound man can go rolling like a tumble weed. When a mission is at stake, Marines with Landing Support Company don’t think twice about the consequences … It’s their job.
During an exercise in support of Weapons and Tactics Instructor course, 14 Marines from LS Co., Combat Logistics Regiment 17, 1st Marine Logistics Group, practiced resupplying units with food, fuel and water
Story by Sgt. Whitney N. Brackett, 1st MLG PAO
Marines of 1st Platoon, Landing Support Company, Combat Logistics Regiment 17, 1st Marine Logistics Group connect slings to two fuel pods that will be dropped off at a different landing zone at Marine Corps Air Station, Yuma as part of their deployment preparation.
photo by Sgt. Whitney N. Brackett
CAOCL course preps Marines for Afghan culture
Story by Pfc. Jerrick J. Griffin, 1st MLG PAO
Center for Advanced Operational Culture Learning comes to Pendleton
MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP PEND-LETON, Calif. – In Afghanistan, kiss-ing a man can mean the difference between destroying a social connec-tion and gathering good information.
Marines who attended the Afghanistan Center for Advanced Operational Culture Learning course at the Base Chapel here April 29 learned about the culture of the country to which they will soon deploy.
Counterinsurgency, or COIN, opera-tions are as dependent on helping the citizens as they are taking out enemies. The Corps has known this for years,
» See CAOCL, page 3
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April 24. The primary purpose of a heli-copter support team is to insert gear and equipment to areas that are not reachable
themselves for a sand storm incomparable to any other in the world. As the CH-53E hovers about ten feet above the equip-ment, the helicopter support team uses a static wand and a grounding rod to elimi-nate up to 175,000 volts of static electricity.
“Being under the bird never gets old,” said Lance Cpl. Kevin D. Christmon, landing support specialist with 1st Platoon, LS Co.
» See STALLIONS, page 3
“Being under the bird never gets old...it’s an adrenaline rush.”CPL. KEVIN D. CHRISTMONSON
Landing Support Specialist, LS Co.
“It’s an adrenaline rush, and we get a lot of flight time,” said Christmon, 21, Detroit.
The cargo is connected to the pendle hook by weight bearing slings. Once given the “ok,” the helicopter and its crew take off to a new destination.
The Marines conduct field exercises to rehearse the procedures of helicopter sup-port teams. Not only does the training benefit landing support specialists, but also a pilot in training. HST being only a portion of their job, it’s important to do as many operations as possible to pre-pare themselves for future deployments.
“The Marines work well together,” said Cpl. James M. Gando, 20, Miami, a landing support specialist with 1st Plt., LS Co. “It’s good to see them get more
by ground vehicle. Afghanistan’s terrain may require HST’s to be readily prepared.
After the crew chief conducts a brief and the mission is a go, Marines prepare
ton Marines are doing their part to keep their brothers in arms up and running.
Marines across the base work together at the unit marshalling area to support the troops in Afghanistan by transporting essential equip-ment to deployed personnel in the Middle East.
ever since Chesty Puller earned his first Navy Cross in the Banana Wars.
Knowing the other culture is essen-tial. Understanding that men hug
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communications transmitters and 7-ton trucks. Every item sent will help make the deployed Marines’ jobs less stressful.
“Any kind of gear the Marine Corps uses, we ship out of here,”
“Our mission is getting the gear ready for Afghani-stan,” said Lance Cpl. Erik A. Carroll, a supply clerk with Supply Company, Supply Battalion, Combat Logistics Regiment 15, 1st Marine Logistics Group. “We’re get-ting the Marines the gear they need so they can com-plete the mission,” said Carroll, 22, Fayetteville, N.C.
Marines assigned to embark worked seven days a week for the last two months receiving equipment to send to 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade in Afghanistan. Opera-tional units on the West Coast are continuously delivering a variety of supplies that are mission essential, ranging from shipping containers to artillery pieces, in support of the Marines overseas. The more new and advanced equipment the Marines have, the greater edge they have on the enemy.
UMA delivers all the serviceable equipment needed to successfully complete their mission. The Marines send any-thing from basic tables and chow hall utensils to advanced
EMBARKERSContinued from Page 1.
photo by Lance Cpl. Jacob a. Singsank
Lance Cpl. Nathaniel J. Radford, 21, Rockdale, Ga., an engineer equipment operator with Engineer Support Company, 7th Engineer Support Battalion, 1st Marine Logistics Group, maneuvers a logistics vehicle system trailer onto a semitrailer April 29. Operational units on the West Coast are continuously delivering a variety of supplies ranging from shipping containers to artillery pieces in support of the Marines overseas.
Now still on active duty in the U.S. Navy, he works in the middle of the Los Angeles County violence at the University of Southern California medical center as a trauma surgeon. His job here keeps him from being deployed, but the trauma that comes through the double doors is similar to that seen in combat.
Green is the chief of Trauma C, one of three sections of trauma at the hospital. Since he is employed under the Navy, he provides the hospital and its patients with a good amount of free trauma care every year. He is well-liked and respected by doctors and professors around the world.
“He is an excellent surgeon,” said Peep Talving, M.D., Ph.D., chief of Trauma B and a visiting professor from the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. “He has a vast amount of experience from his deployments and pro-vides us with resources, such as the cadaver lab, he’s a major asset.” said Talving, 43, Sweden.
In addition to his job at the center, his primary job is to instruct an average of 220 student corpsmen every year before they deploy. He is the director of this relatively new program that began in 2002. The intent of the course is to give the corpsmen experience in trauma
and the ability to treat it prior to deploying with Marines.Combat injuries are not always preventable, but it
doesn’t mean most injuries aren’t survivable. He wants the rotators to see bleeding, to understand it’s real and that it is going to happen. The inevitability of trauma and the importance of a quick, confident and knowledge-able response is the message he tries to send out to his students before they graduate the three-week course.
“His teaching methods are not only motivational, but it is really inspiring to work with someone of his essence,” said Petty Officer 3rd Class Sean Morgan, corpsmen and student at NTTC.
Small techniques, such as starting an intravenous, become ancient to a doctor because they haven’t done it in years. Green strives to better his corpsmen every time they meet.
“[Corpsmen] are my colleagues,” said Green. “They need to know how to do the simple things because I don’t.”
For Green, cheating death is simply another chapter of his life, a chapter that he does not plan on leaving for years to come.
“It took me one day on the job before I knew,” said Green. “I want to do this forever.”
photo by Sgt. Whitney N. Brackett
Cmdr. Donald J. Green fills out paperwork on trauma patients at the Los Angeles County University of Southern California. Here he works as staff for the hospital, but gets all benefits from the United States Navy. His primary job is an instructor for corpsmen who attend the Navy Trauma Training Center prior to deployment. They aim to show corpsmen real life trauma patients prior to seeing them in a combat zone.
Story by Sgt. Whitney N. Brackett, 1st MLG PAO
NTTC instructor cheats death not emotion
LOS ANGELES, Calif., - A green mustang pulls up in the drive-way, its license plate boasts that the driver is the “death cheater.”
Cmdr. Donald J. Green steps out of the car and walks into his office. He’s sporting blue scrubs and a cap with “Trojan Trauma” emblazoned in red across the front. The muscles corded around his arms say “street fighter,” but his eyes tell a different tale.
Lights flipped on reveal a statue of the Death Dealer sitting on his desk, “to keep his enemy close,” he says.
Later, he leaves his office to introduce himself to stu-dents at the Navy Trauma Training Center in Los Ange-les. Less than five minutes into his lecture, two tears roll down the side of his face.
He opens most of his classes with the story of a Marine medically evacuated to Taqaddum Surgical who arrived with no vital signs. The surgeons performed an open heart massage to get the patient’s heart beating again. The proce-dure was successful. The next step was to stop the bleeding in his abdomen. It was too late, they already lost him.
Green pulled the dog tags off the patient to identify the body. But there wasn’t a name. No social security number either. To his profound grief, a hologram photo of a young woman and a baby stared back at him, stir-ring thoughts of a jarhead at the mall with his family, buying gimmicky dog tags during pre-deployment leave.
This incident still affects Green day to day. When a patient doesn’t survive and Green has to tell the fami-lies of their loss or even when he has to speak to his students about death, sorrow and grief grips him.
“It never gets old,” said Green. “It’s just gets worse every time.”This isn’t something one would expect from an amateur
body builder. Cockiness isn’t an ingredient of choice. How-ever, he did make it known that he can always win first place ... sometimes 8th. At home, Green has a map of the United States with roughly a dozen X’s in the middle of each state.
“These are all the places I have been in jail,” said Green. “I’m just kidding, it’s just all the places I have been.”
Body building is just one of his hob-bies, but his full time hobby is saving lives.
Being a doctor was his dream from younger years, when his grandfather wished all his grandchildren be doctors. He was raised in Glendive, Montana. No more then 7,000 people live in the small city, and not many more than that have ever heard of the town, said Green.
The price of medical school was too expensive and he knew there had to be an easier way to pay for it. The route he had chosen is an honor to America. He chose to be a part of the highest decorated corps the Navy has to offer and the Hospital Corps soon became a major part of his life.
Dr. Green began his resi-dency in 1996 at the Univer-sity of Arizona. He owed a lot of his success to the United States Navy, and didn’t hesi-tate to dedicate himself to duty. He deployed soon after he graduated in 2001 as part of a surgical fleet on the USS Bonhomme Richard. When he arrived back from
“His teaching methods are not only motivational, but it is extremely inspiring to work with someone of his essence.’”PETTY OFFICER 3RD CLASS SEAN MORGAN
Corpsman and student at Navy trauma
Training Center
Instructor uses mean streets of Los Angeles to provide Navy Corpsmen real-life experiences before facing them on the battlefield
his second tour in 2003, he married his fiancée, Cindy.
Besides spending time with his wife and three chil-dren, he enjoys nothing more than saving the lives of good people. He soon found himself deployed again. Operation Phantom Fury called for his expertise. In just 10 days, his team had treated 200 patients.
“It’s the coolest thing I will ever do,” said Green.
said Sgt. Darrol R. Wynn, an embarker with Headquarters and Service Company, Headquarters Battalion, 1st Marine Division.
After the military equipment is consolidated at the UMA, it’s either flown from March Air Force Base or ground delivered to civilian cargo ports and shipped there. All these steps demand long, grueling hours from the service members who make this operation happen.
“Without all the hard work the Marines here have done, none of this would have been possible,” said Sgt. Joseph W. Cain, a heavy equipment operator with Engineer Sup-port Company, 7th Engineer Support Battalion, 1st MLG.
“Everybody has been working together as a team to complete the mission in Operation Enduring Freedom.”
UMA Marines safely conduct their operations with limited time, as more equipment arrives daily.
“We don’t take shortcuts,” said Cain, 24, Milwaukee. “The units are giving us millions of dollars of their best equipment so we can send it over to Afghanistan to be used to fight in the war.”
UMA Marines rely on all of their personnel to do their part in loading the supplies and getting them to the front lines.
“A lot of heavy equipment operators who just came out of military occupational specialty school are getting hands on training moving gear ranging from pallets to logistics vehicle systems,” said Wynn, 23, Fort Wayne, Ind.
UMA Marines are scheduled to have all the equipment shipped out to the service members depending on it this month.
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didn’t hesitate to make it happen. The Marines aim for a turnaround time of less than 24 hours when possible.
“Combat Logistics Battalion 7 is doing an outstanding job,” said Master Sgt. Vincent S. Liddle, motor transport officer,
TWENTY NINE PALMS, Calif. - Their bodies are sweaty from the heat. Their feet hurt and the noise never stops. They are not complaining, they just bite the dust and continue to work. Combat Logistics Battal-ion 7, 1st Marine Logistics Group keeps an open door policy when tasked with a mis-sion: 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
When the 11th Marine Regiment trains, they train day and night. They don’t get much sleep, or receive the comforts people take for granted. When something essen-tial breaks during Desert Fire Exercise, how will it get fixed? The answer is CLB-7.
“We are running a 24-hour combat opera-tions center at Support Company,” said Master Sgt. Dean E. Weichert, section 3 chief, CLB-7. “In the event of additional rapid request beyond normal working hours, we will be able to pro-vide that support,” said Weichert, 39, York, Penn.
In between CLB-7 has a mission to accom-plish, regardless of the lack of personnel. Cur-rently, the majority of the battalion is deployed to Al Asad, Iraq. But that doesn’t keep them from carry-ing out the task of supporting 11th Marine Regiment.
When more than 10 seven-ton trucks and two how-itzers failed in less than two weeks, the 11th Marine Regiment needed logistical support in a hurry. CLB-7
photo by Sgt. Whitney N. Brackett
A formation of CH-53E and CH-53D helicopters consolidate before conducting a helicopter support team cargo lift. Each pilot was assigned different types of equipment to transport, such as food, fuel and water to another unit. This mission was part of a field exercise for Landing Support Company, Combat Logistics Regiment 17, 1st Marine Logistics Group April 24 at Marine Corps Air Station, Yuma.
Marines have been making their presence known through warfare since the Revolutionary
War. Now they are training to carry out the social
aspect to win the war by helping people.
experience and practice their special -ty in a controlled working environment.”
In addition to logistics, they are also responsible for the tactical recovery of aircraft and personnel. By connecting the sling legs to a hook, a pilot and HST can successfully recover a fallen or malfunctioned aircraft in various terrains.
“Lifts become routine, but on the job training is always important,” said Cpl. David C. Perry, 22, Frazeysburg, Ohio, landing support specialist with 1st Plt., LS Co. “Not only is the practice good for us, but for the pilots too.”
While completing assignments, LS Marines may also be tasked to transport a howitzer and its crew to a safer position. It’s also important for the specialists to edu-cate themselves in evaluating the safety of a pick up, giving them the control to suspend the lift if it’s too risky.
Marines on the front line or in a threatening envi-ronment rely on the support of landing specialists to use their tactics, knowledge and skill to continue to the fight. Despite extreme danger, helicopter sup-port teams are essential to mission accomplishment.
STALLIONSContinued from Page 1.
CAOCLContinued from Page 1.
“(CLB-7 has) a very good turnaround time, they just won’t quit.”MASTER SGT. VINCENT S. LIDDLE
Motor Transport Officer, 1/11
Desert Fire exercise: Combat Logistics Battalion 7 Supports Cannon CockersStory by Sgt. Whitney N. Brackett, 1st MLG PAO
photo by Sgt. Whitney N. Brackett
Gun two from India Battery, 1st Battalion, 11th Marines, 1st Marine Division, fires a sequence of three rounds during Desert Fire Exercise May 1. In-between their missions, they are resupplied by Combat Logistics Battalion 7, Combat Logistics Regiment 1, 1st Marine Logistics Group with the ammunition necessary for the howitzer crews to keep firing and complete their mission.
photo by Sgt. Whitney N. Brackett
A Marine points to a live round in the Quakenbush Training area of Twentynine Palms during the Desert Fire Exercise. It was found after 1st Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division Marines were topped off with supplies from Combat Logistic Battalion 7, Combat Logistics Regiment 1, 1st Marine Logistics Group during their move to another area.
Headquarters Battery, 1st Battalion, 11th Marines. “They have a very good turnaround time, they just won’t quit,” said Liddle, 39, Indian River, Mich.
Mechanics aren’t the only support they provide to 11th Marine Regiment. Necessities such as water, fuel and transportation of ammunition were also dispatched to them by convoys a few times a week.
“From my understanding they are working with a very small and newer crew,” said 1st Lt. Mark M. Phelps, logistics officer, HQ Battery, 1st Bn., 11th Marines. “Each time they [resup-ply] us they are getting better and it goes smoother,” said Phelps, 32, Naperville, Illinois.
It took approximately two weeks of planning and preparation to effectively support the Regi-ment’s four battalions. While stressing the tactics of combat, CLB-7 Marines are participating in
another portion of future deployment training. Their hard work and commitment to the mission is also assisting 11th Marines to train just as hard.
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and kiss each other as a common greeting is social ammunition in a conflict where success is marked in the social dimension as much as the physical.
“Relationships take time and patience to build,” said Ajmal Zahir Samim, 36, CAOCL instructor from Kabul, Afghanistan.
Just by simply knowing how people greet each other
helps build the bond between Marines and the local citizens.“This is useful information to have,” said Lance Cpl.
Pierre Parker, 20, Pensacola, Fla., vehicle mechanic, Combat Logistics Battalion 11, Combat Logistics Regi-ment 17, 1st Marine Logistics Group. “Just knowing how to relate with the people will help me build relation-ships, so that they will be willing to give me information.”
Another way to ruin relationships with the local men in Afghanistan is to touch, speak to or even make eye contact with a woman there. In their culture a woman who is thought to be in love or is caught speaking with or looking at a man can be considered a shame to her family and killed.
“Let’s say a Marine is staring at a woman in Afghanistan and one of the men see him,” said Pfc. Chris J. Mea-chum, 20, Chicago, vehicle mechanic, 3rd Assault Amphib-ian Battalion, 1st Marine Division. “The man would probably help out insurgents more than he would help us, because someone went against their culture.”
Marines have been making their presence known through warfare since the Revolutionary War. Now they are training to carry out the social aspect to win the war by helping people.
“Your conduct establishes you and your unit’s repu-tation,” Samim said. “Once lost it’s difficult to regain.”
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Story and photos by Pfc. Jerrick J. Griffin, 1st MLG PAO
CBRN faces realistic scenarios in new technician course
Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense
specialists rely on awareness, responses
to complete 5-week training regime
MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. – A man lies in the doorway, bleeding from the mouth. Inside the house a lab with unknown chemicals is found spread across the table.
This was part of a scenario presented to the Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear defense specialists during the first field opera-tion of the five-week technician course here April 30. The course is designed with realistic scenarios that require the Marines to react as they would in a real-world scenario. Once they complete the course they are certified to deal with spills and respond to casualties.
Eight Marines attended the initial course and started as a group. As the mission progressed, they were sent in as teams to respond.
During the exercise Marines had to be aware of anything that didn’t look normal. Once they discovered the body and the lab, the first team of Marines reported back to base and evacu-ated the body while the second team went in to inspect the lab.
“These scenarios were pretty realistic,” said Lance Cpl. Gerardo J. Herrera, 20, Pittston, Pa., warehouse personnel, Combat Logistics Regi-ment 17, 1st Marine Logistics Group. “It’s good the training is as realistic as possible (because)
Lance Cpl. Tyler J. Kirsch, 20, Rome, N.Y., decontaminates Lance Cpl. Cory J. Flynn, 22, Hobbs, New Mexico, both Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear defense specialists, Combat Logistics Regiment 17, 1st Marine Logistics Group, during the first field exercise of the five-week technician course.
Lance Cpl. Michael H. Sharmen, 21, Arlington, Tex., Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear defense specialist, Combat Logistics Regiment 17, 1st Marine Logistics Group, reports the chemicals he found during the first field exercise of the five-week technician course.
it can help us be better prepared for real missions like this.”
The makeshift lab where the casualty was found had chemicals and it was up to the second team to find out what they were. They had to use every tool in their pos-session to get what they needed.
Outfitted in their protective suits, the Marines used syringes and gauze to obtain samples form the lab. Doing this in the level A chemical warfare agent protective suit was difficult because the suit is inflated from the clean air being filtered in.
“It was a hassle to try to extract some of the chemicals from the containers without getting it on us,” said Lance Cpl. Cory J. Flynn, 22, Hobbs, New Mexico CBRN defense specialist, CLR-17. “We used whatever methods that worked to get what we needed.”
While inspecting the lab one of the defense specialist was “exposed” to the unknown chemi-cals. The Marines were tested on how fast they reacted to his con-tamination and evacuating him. It only took them 54 seconds.
“Fifty-four seconds isn’t bad,” said Pfc. James D. Mayo, 19, Phila-delphia, CBRN clerk, CLR-17. “We didn’t realize he went down. If we did we would’ve got him out of there faster.”
These training exercises lead up to the final exercise May 22, where they earn their techni-cian certification. With chemical warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan ever-changing, courses like this better prepare Marines for what’s around the next corner.
Lance Cpl. Michael H. Sharmen, 21, Arlington, Tex., and Lance Cpl. Saul Castro, 19, Destin, Fla., Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear defense specialists, Combat Logistics Regiment 17, 1st Marine Logistics Group, evacuate a casualty during the first field exercise of the five-week technician course. The course had the Marines patrol through a small town where they discovered a man lying in a doorway bleeding from the mouth. Inside the small house was a lab with unknown chemicals spread across a table. The Marines gather samples, evacuate casualties and respond to various other situations they may face in a chemical warfare environment. These training exercises lead up to the final exercise, where they will earn their technician certification.
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Photos from around the 1st Marine Logistics Groupa look at what Marines and their units are doing this week.
photo by pfc. Jerrick J. griffin
Lance Cpl. Kyle A. Lochrie, 20, Ironton, Minn., small-arms repair technician, Combat Logistics Regiment 17, 1st Marines Logistics Group, practices firing an M9 pistol in preparation for the pistol qualification range. Lochrie, along with other Marines, practiced various pistol drills to increase their proficiency during combat.
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1st Marine Logistics Group PAOPublic Affairs Officer..............................1st Lt. Kendra N. HardestyPress Chief ...............................................Staff Sgt. Matthew P. ShelatoEditor...........................................................Sgt. Geoffrey P. IngersollEditor...........................................................Cpl. Ryan L. TomlinsonLayout Design.........................................Cpl. Tyler B. BarstowReporter.....................................................Sgt. Whitney N. BrackettReporter.....................................................Lance Cpl. Jacob A. SingsankReporter.....................................................Pfc. Jerrick J. Griffin
photo by pfc. Jerrick J. griffin
Staff Sgt. Herbert R. Pete, 30, Omega, Ga., supply chief, Combat Logistics Regiment 17, 1st Marine Logistics Group, practices a speed reload in preparation for the pistol qualification range. Pete, along with other Marines, practiced various pistol drills to increase their proficiency during combat.
photo by Lance Cpl. Jacob a. Singsank
Pfc. Tracy N. Summers, 18, Stafford, Va., motor transport operator, Motor Transport Platoon, Support Company, 7th Engineer Support Battalion, 1st Marine Logistics Group, installs a “convoy ahead” sign on the back of a humvee April 27.
photo by Lance Cpl. Jacob a. Singsank
Cpl. Michael Y. Rubio, 26, Los Angeles, motor transport operator, Motor Transport Platoon, Support Company, 7th Engineer Support Battalion, 1st Marine Logistics Group, wraps the excess chain after tightening the binding on a tractor April 27. Motor Transport Platoon conducted a 54-vehicle tactical convoy to Camp Roberts, Calif. April 30 in support of the unit’s field training exercise. The motor transport Marines worked everyday on the tactical vehicles to make their final adjustments and inspections to prevent any mechanical problems during the 315 mile trip.
photo by Lance Cpl. Jacob a. Singsank
Cpl. Phillip J. Zagone, 24, Menifee, Calif., motor transport dispatcher, Motor Transport Platoon, Support Company, 7th Engineer Support Battalion, 1st Marine Logistics Group, cleans the rearview mirrors on a 7-ton truck April 27. The motor transport Marines worked everyday on the tactical vehicles to make their final adjustments and inspections to prevent any mechanical problems during the 315 mile trip on April 30.
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