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Lance Cpl. Eric Hersperger, a military police officer

Lance Cpl. Eric Hersperger, a military police officer

Lance Cpl. Eric Hersperger, a military police officer with the Provost Marshal’s Office and Boston native, practices hard turns on a new T3 Series Electric Stand-up Vehicle July 1. The energy-efficient vehicle ... More

Dylan Bow,9, holds up the largest inert military weapons

Dylan Bow,9, holds up the largest inert military weapons

Dylan Bow,9, holds up the largest inert military weapons system he could find on a display table during the Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron’s Bring Your Child to Work Day here, July 1. Multiple weapons t... More

Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum volunteer, Walt

Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum volunteer, Walt

Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum volunteer, Walt Nicoll, explains to Sgt. Andrew Blanchette, a communication and navigation technician with Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 11 and a San Diego native, the fu... More

Sgt. Benjamin Webdell, a Gary, Ind., native who serves

Sgt. Benjamin Webdell, a Gary, Ind., native who serves

Sgt. Benjamin Webdell, a Gary, Ind., native who serves as a heavy equipment operator with Marine Wing Support Squadron 373, helps unroll a tent at San Diego High School, July 11. The Marines of MWSS-373 will pu... More

(From left to right) Mark Comora, president of Fortistar

(From left to right) Mark Comora, president of Fortistar

(From left to right) Mark Comora, president of Fortistar Methane Group LLC; Col. Frank A. Richie, the commanding officer of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, Calif.; U.S. Navy Capt. Keith Hamilton, the commandi... More

Legoland's welcome home surprise

Legoland's welcome home surprise

Three year-old Dain Sparks embraces his father Staff Sgt. Jesse Sparks, an airframe quality assurance representative with Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 465, and his mother, Megan Sparks, at Legoland theme pa... More

Marines from squadrons under Marine Aircraft Group

Marines from squadrons under Marine Aircraft Group

Marines from squadrons under Marine Aircraft Group 16, start their engines before a three hour, round-trip group motorcycle ride here July 15. The Marines took curvy roads to a restaurant near Lake Henshaw for ... More

Marine Wing Support Squadron 373 Marines transformed

Marine Wing Support Squadron 373 Marines transformed

Marine Wing Support Squadron 373 Marines transformed an athletic field at San Diego High School to house nearly 1,000 homeless veterans July 15. The squadron spent a week constructing tents for sleeping, dining... More

Marines with Bravo Company, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion,

Marines with Bravo Company, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion,

Marines with Bravo Company, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, rush into a MV-22B Osprey here July 15. Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 161 partnered with 1st Recon to train on expediently entering and exiting the a... More

Sgt. Charles D. Turnage, a refrigeration mechanic with

Sgt. Charles D. Turnage, a refrigeration mechanic with

Sgt. Charles D. Turnage, a refrigeration mechanic with Marine Tactical Air Command Squadron 38 and a Quitman, Miss., native, tries to win a prize at the Navy Federal Credit Union booth during the Military Appre... More

The KC-130J Harvest Hawk with Marine Aerial Refueler

The KC-130J Harvest Hawk with Marine Aerial Refueler

The KC-130J Harvest Hawk with Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 352, prepares for touch down here July 22. The Harvest Hawk landed here after its nine month deployment to Afghanistan. Twelve Marines dep... More

Cpl. Nancy Zelaya, a Rockville, Md., native and training

Cpl. Nancy Zelaya, a Rockville, Md., native and training

Cpl. Nancy Zelaya, a Rockville, Md., native and training non-commissioned officer with Marine Wing Support Squadron 373, plots a shot for a team mate at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Va., July 23. Zelaya is the o... More

Competitors at the 50th Annual Interservice Rifle

Competitors at the 50th Annual Interservice Rifle

Competitors at the 50th Annual Interservice Rifle Championship focus on prone shooting at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Va., July 23. Four members of the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Shooting Team, based out ... More

A group of Marines swim 25 meters with a waterproofed

A group of Marines swim 25 meters with a waterproofed

A group of Marines swim 25 meters with a waterproofed pack for the basic level of the Marine Corps Water Survival Training Program here July 25. There are three new swim qualification levels down from five and ... More

Adamari Muniz, 10, sits with a service dog at the Defense

Adamari Muniz, 10, sits with a service dog at the Defense

Adamari Muniz, 10, sits with a service dog at the Defense Commissary Agency here July 29. Milk-Bone and the DCA will donate a dog to Adamari, who suffers from epilepsy. A service dog can alleviate many of the t... More

Donnie Gilray, the quarterback for the Marine Corps

Donnie Gilray, the quarterback for the Marine Corps

Donnie Gilray, the quarterback for the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Falcons and a native of Rowlett, Texas, works on his passing at practice here. Aug. 1. The Falcons condition Monday through Thursday, 11:1... More

Sgt. Christina G. Thuman, the Marine Corps Air Station

Sgt. Christina G. Thuman, the Marine Corps Air Station

Sgt. Christina G. Thuman, the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Provost Marshal’s Office crime prevention non-commissioned officer in charge and an Earlville, Iowa, native, pins a special deputy badge on Amina, ... More

101 Days of Summer 5K Drug Free Fun Run participants

101 Days of Summer 5K Drug Free Fun Run participants

101 Days of Summer 5K Drug Free Fun Run participants prepare to race at the Sports Complex track here, Aug. 3. The 101 Days of Summer program’s goal is to eliminate illegal drug use and promote responsible use ... More

Guests select donated school supplies at the Headquarters

Guests select donated school supplies at the Headquarters

Guests select donated school supplies at the Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron Family Day here Aug. 5. Marines and their family members took the afternoon off to try their hands at rock climbing, flag foot... More

A Marine with Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 465

A Marine with Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 465

A Marine with Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 465 gets a big hug Aug. 6. The Marines with HMH-465 returned home from a six-month deployment to Helmand province, Afghanistan. HMH–465 conducted operations from C... More

Marines with the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing Band, Marine

Marines with the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing Band, Marine

Marines with the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing Band, Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, perform at the San Diego Chargers’ preseason game against the Seattle Seahawks at Qualcomm Stadium, Aug. 11. Following the band,... More

Marines from Marine Corps Air Station Miramar and Marine

Marines from Marine Corps Air Station Miramar and Marine

Marines from Marine Corps Air Station Miramar and Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton unfurl a giant American flag during a Military Appreciation Day event at Qualcomm Stadium, Aug. 11, which helped the San Diego ... More

Ospreys perform performs low and high altitude tactics

Ospreys perform performs low and high altitude tactics

A U.S. Marine MV-22B Osprey assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 166, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (MAW), performs low and high altitude tactics during a squadron Deployment For Training (DFT) aboard ... More

Miramar Falcons quarterback Donnie Gilray, back left,

Miramar Falcons quarterback Donnie Gilray, back left,

Miramar Falcons quarterback Donnie Gilray, back left, rolls out of the pocket to pass to their wide receiver Luke Boyd, center, on Paige Field House at Camp Pendleton Aug. 15. The Falcons held the 9th Communica... More

An Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting crewman extinguishes

An Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting crewman extinguishes

An Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting crewman extinguishes a simulated fire on a training aircraft here Aug. 15. The crewman, from Miramar station, 3rd and 4th Marine Aircraft Wing ARFF, spent the afternoon rehe... More

The radar picks up a signal from a San Diego Police

The radar picks up a signal from a San Diego Police

The radar picks up a signal from a San Diego Police Department aircraft as it nears Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, Calif. The Marines who man the air traffic control tower are responsible for all the aircraf... More

Cpl. Thomas R. VanderLaan, a correctional specialist

Cpl. Thomas R. VanderLaan, a correctional specialist

Cpl. Thomas R. VanderLaan, a correctional specialist at the Naval Consolidated Brig, works out during physical therapy at the Veterans Affairs Spinal Cord Injury Center, Aug. 22. VanderLaan is recovering from a... More

Cpl. Jessica Keogh, an administration specialist with

Cpl. Jessica Keogh, an administration specialist with

Cpl. Jessica Keogh, an administration specialist with Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron and a Monroe, Conn., native, and Cpl. Yvonne Cantu, a supply administration specialist with Marine Aircraft Group 16 ... More

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Kenneth Stevens, assigned to

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Kenneth Stevens, assigned to

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Kenneth Stevens, assigned to Chemical Biological Radioactive Nuclear platoon, 3d Marine Aircraft Wing, checks his blood pressure before participating in a force protection decontamination... More

An F/A-18C belonging to Marine Fighter Attack Squadron

An F/A-18C belonging to Marine Fighter Attack Squadron

An F/A-18C belonging to Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (All-Weather) 225 sits on the flight line here. The squadron used this aircraft during training at Avon Park Air Force Range, Aug. 1 through 26.

Staff Sgt. Fransisco Castro, a ground supply warehouse

Staff Sgt. Fransisco Castro, a ground supply warehouse

Staff Sgt. Fransisco Castro, a ground supply warehouse chief with 4th Marine Aircraft Wing, a Tuscon, Ariz., native and a fighter at the Miramar Grappling Club, wraps his hands in preparation to use a heavy bag... More

Marines with Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting spray

Marines with Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting spray

Marines with Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting spray down a jet during a training exercise aboard Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Sept. 14. Marines with ARFF are trained in a variety of simulated exercises to e... More

A Marine with Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine

A Marine with Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine

A Marine with Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment fast ropes aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton out of a CH-53E Super Stallion with Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 465, Sept. 15. The squadron... More

Commanders welcome Howie Mandel

Commanders welcome Howie Mandel

Maj. Gen. Thomas Conant, right, commanding general of 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, and Col. Frank A. Richie, center, commanding officer of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, present Howie Mandel with an aviator jac... More

Marines receive award for safety

Marines receive award for safety

Lt. Col. Jay Holtermann, commanding officer of Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 361 and a Green Bay, Wis., native, accepts the Chief of Naval Operations Aviation Safety Award aboard Marine Corps Air Station Mir... More

HMH-466 receive safety award

HMH-466 receive safety award

Col. Patrick Gramuglia, commanding officer of Marine Aircraft Group 16, presents Lt. Col. Joseph K. Decapite, commanding officer of Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 466, with the Chief of Naval Operations Aviat... More

Civilian, military officers receive recognition

Civilian, military officers receive recognition

Col. Frank A. Richie, left, commanding officer of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar and a Shoemakersville, Pa., native, and Lt. Col. Mike D. Mizell, right, provost marshal for MCAS Miramar and a Yakima, Wash., n... More

Maj. Gen. Thomas Conant prepares to fly his last AH-1W

Maj. Gen. Thomas Conant prepares to fly his last AH-1W

Maj. Gen. Thomas Conant prepares to fly his last AH-1W Super Cobra as the commanding general of 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing aboard Marine Corps Air Station Camp Pendleton Sept. 22. Conant will relinquish command o... More

3rd MAW bids farewell to Maj. Gen. Conant

3rd MAW bids farewell to Maj. Gen. Conant

Maj. Gen. Thomas Conant, former commanding general of 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, thanks Marines, sailors and families in attendance of his change of command ceremony aboard Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, Cali... More

President Barack Obama greets service members and guests

President Barack Obama greets service members and guests

President Barack Obama greets service members and guests aboard Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, Calif., Sept. 26. Obama landed in Air Force One aboard MCAS Miramar on his way to a presidential campaign stop ... More

Marines ‘throw down’ during MCMAP

Marines ‘throw down’ during MCMAP

Cpl. James Rader, an air control electronics operator with Marine Air Control Squadron 1 and Colorado Springs, Colo., native, performs the shoulder throw on Lance Cpl. Michael Hoxie, an air control electronics ... More

Cpl. Kyle J. Taylor, left, an armory Marine Corps integrated

Cpl. Kyle J. Taylor, left, an armory Marine Corps integrated

Cpl. Kyle J. Taylor, left, an armory Marine Corps integrated maintenance management system non-commissioned officer with Marine Wing Support Squadron 373 and a Pittburgh native, checks in an M16 A4 service rifl... More

Marines move into place for air show

Marines move into place for air show

Marines from 4th Tank Battalion, 4th Marine Division, move a Light Armored Vehicle into position on the flight line aboard Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, Sept. 28. The Marines here spent the days prior to th... More

A child watches the Blue Angels’ Boeing F/A-18 Hornet

A child watches the Blue Angels’ Boeing F/A-18 Hornet

A child watches the Blue Angels’ Boeing F/A-18 Hornet aircraft during the Make-A-Wish and Balboa Children’s event of the annual 2011 Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Air Show Sept. 29. Children from Balboa Nava... More

A B-25 Bomber flies over San Diego during the annual

A B-25 Bomber flies over San Diego during the annual

A B-25 Bomber flies over San Diego during the annual Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Air Show Sept. 29. Dozens of aircraft pilots spent the days prior to the annual 2011 MCAS Miramar Air Show making final prep... More

Historical aircraft prepare for flight aboard Marine

Historical aircraft prepare for flight aboard Marine

Historical aircraft prepare for flight aboard Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Sept. 29. Dozens of aircraft pilots spent the days prior to the annual 2011 MCAS Miramar Air Show making final preparations and mov... More

U.S. Marines, assigned to 1st Marine Division, fast

U.S. Marines, assigned to 1st Marine Division, fast

U.S. Marines, assigned to 1st Marine Division, fast rope out of a UH-1y Huey helicopter during the Marine Corps Community Services sponsored annual Air Show at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, San Diego, Calif... More

Lance Cpl. Erik J. Potgieter, a light armored vehicle

Lance Cpl. Erik J. Potgieter, a light armored vehicle

Lance Cpl. Erik J. Potgieter, a light armored vehicle crewman with 4th Light Armored Vehicle Reconnaissance Battalion and a Grenada, West Indies, native, helps children climb down from an LAV-25AZ during the an... More

Lance Cpl. Dylan Wolff, a chemical, biological, radiological

Lance Cpl. Dylan Wolff, a chemical, biological, radiological

Lance Cpl. Dylan Wolff, a chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear specialist and a Manitowoc, Wisc., native, and Pfc. Alexis Satterwhite, a heavy equipment operator and a Downey, Calif., native, both wit... More

Several CH-46E Sea Knights from Marine Medium Helicopter

Several CH-46E Sea Knights from Marine Medium Helicopter

Several CH-46E Sea Knights from Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 163, ‘Evil Eyes,’ returned to Marine Corps Air Station Miramar after a seven-month deployment with the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit serving in... More

The U.S. Navy Blue Angels perform during the Marine

The U.S. Navy Blue Angels perform during the Marine

The U.S. Navy Blue Angels perform during the Marine Corps Community Services (MCCS) sponsored annual Air Show on Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Miramar, San Diego, Sept. 30, 2011. The 2011 MCAS Miramar Air Sho... More

An MV-22B Osprey helicopter takes part in the Marine

An MV-22B Osprey helicopter takes part in the Marine

An MV-22B Osprey helicopter takes part in the Marine Air-Ground Task Force demonstration during the 2011 Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Air Show Oct. 1 aboard MCAS Miramar. The MAGTF demonstrated the capabili... More

The sun sets on day two of the 2011 Marine Corps Air

The sun sets on day two of the 2011 Marine Corps Air

The sun sets on day two of the 2011 Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Air Show aboard MCAS Miramar, Calif., Oct. 1. Approximately 750,000 guests were expected to attend the show over the course of the weekend.

Sgt. Dante Collins, a team leader with 1st Reconnaissance

Sgt. Dante Collins, a team leader with 1st Reconnaissance

Sgt. Dante Collins, a team leader with 1st Reconnaissance Battalion and a San Diego native, guides a team member onto the fast rope during the Marine Air-Ground Task Force demonstration at the 2011 Marine Corps... More

A Blue Angel, part of the Navy’s Flight Demonstration

A Blue Angel, part of the Navy’s Flight Demonstration

A Blue Angel, part of the Navy’s Flight Demonstration Squadron, flies over the flight line aboard Marine Corps Air Station Miramar during the 2011 MCAS Miramar Air Show, Oct. 1. The Blue Angels performed stunts... More

The Blue Angels, the Navy’s Flight Demonstration Squadron,

The Blue Angels, the Navy’s Flight Demonstration Squadron,

The Blue Angels, the Navy’s Flight Demonstration Squadron, perform for the audience of the 2011 Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Air Show aboard MCAS Miramar, Oct. 1. The Blue Angels performed stunts all three ... More

A drill instructor races around a formation of spouses

A drill instructor races around a formation of spouses

A drill instructor races around a formation of spouses at the 2011 Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron Jane Wayne Day aboard Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, Calif., Oct. 7. The recruit indoctrination was t... More

‘Janes’ learn to sound off

‘Janes’ learn to sound off

Staff Sgt. Ruben Acosta, an Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting section leader with Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron and El Paso, Texas, native, motivates H&HS Jane Wayne Day participant Stephanie Douglas, ... More

Knights scrape by Falcons in 21-20 win

Knights scrape by Falcons in 21-20 win

A Miramar Falcons player sacks quarterback Matthew Petree from the 9th Communication Battalion Knights on Paige Field House at Camp Pendleton Oct. 7. With less than 30 seconds left in the game, the Knights scor... More

Sgt. Shawn Arnold, an aircraft recovery crew leader

Sgt. Shawn Arnold, an aircraft recovery crew leader

Sgt. Shawn Arnold, an aircraft recovery crew leader with Marine Wing Support Squadron 473 and a San Diego native, reports that the Improved Fresnel Lens Optical Landing System is ready aboard Marine Corps Air S... More

VMM-165 ready for operational training

VMM-165 ready for operational training

An MV-22B Osprey sits on the flight line aboard Marine Corps Air Station Miramar before a short ceremony officially beginning Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 165’s operational training Oct. 14. The squadron re... More

VMM-561 ‘Pale Horse’ saddle up Osprey

VMM-561 ‘Pale Horse’ saddle up Osprey

Sgt. Steven Stafford, an airframe mechanic with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 561 and a Sparks, Nev., native, holds a power cord to a fire extinguisher aboard Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Oct. 17. Staffo... More

Navy Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Chesler, an endodontist and

Navy Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Chesler, an endodontist and

Navy Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Chesler, an endodontist and a Minneapolis native, and Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Dean Fowler, a dental technician and a Honesdale, Pa., native, both with 13th Dental Company, perform a ... More

An MV-22B Osprey with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron

An MV-22B Osprey with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron

An MV-22B Osprey with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 161 participates in a confined area landing exercise Oct. 20 aboard Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif. The squadron used two ne... More

Construction workers with Menco Pacific, Inc., level

Construction workers with Menco Pacific, Inc., level

Construction workers with Menco Pacific, Inc., level the ground outside the Miramar Sports Complex aboard Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, Calif., Oct. 24. The workers are installing a synthetic field for flag... More

Pfc. Matthew R. Manning, a supply administration clerk

Pfc. Matthew R. Manning, a supply administration clerk

Pfc. Matthew R. Manning, a supply administration clerk with Marine Tactical Air Command Squadron 38 and a Highlands Ranch, Colo., native, leaps backward after hitting a buzzer at the top of a rock wall during t... More

NAE puts ‘Boots on the Ground’ at Miramar

NAE puts ‘Boots on the Ground’ at Miramar

Lt. Col. Joseph Sears, the commanding officer of Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron 101, speaks at the Naval Aviation Enterprise “Boots on the Ground” event aboard Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, Calif.,... More

Staff Sgt. Fransisco Castro, a warehouse chief with

Staff Sgt. Fransisco Castro, a warehouse chief with

Staff Sgt. Fransisco Castro, a warehouse chief with 4th Marine Aircraft Wing Site Support and a Tucson, Ariz., native, throws punch combinations toward a heavy bag with the Miramar Grappling Club aboard Marine ... More

Marines with Marine Corps Air Station Miramar align

Marines with Marine Corps Air Station Miramar align

Marines with Marine Corps Air Station Miramar align flags with students during a Veterans Day event at the Literacy First Charter School’s Junior Academy in El Cajon, Calif., Nov. 8. Students also sat down with... More

Marines mark 236th birthday

Marines mark 236th birthday

Col. Frank A. Richie, center, the commanding officer of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, cuts the first slice of Marine Corps birthday cake as the air station and 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing celebrated the Marine... More

Tree lighting illuminates Miramar

Tree lighting illuminates Miramar

Col. Frank A. Richie, Santa Clause, Dr Seuss' The Grinch and Maj. Gen. Andrew O'Donnell Jr. prepare to light the tree during the annual tree lighting ceremony aboard Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, Calif., No... More

Trespassers have been causing habitat destruction aboard

Trespassers have been causing habitat destruction aboard

Trespassers have been causing habitat destruction aboard East Miramar through off-road driving. The air station contains 10 species protected by the Endangered Species Act. There are six plants, two birds and t... More

Retired Master Sgt. Bennis Branch talks to Marines

Retired Master Sgt. Bennis Branch talks to Marines

Retired Master Sgt. Bennis Branch talks to Marines and sailors with the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Falcons and the 9th Communication Battalion Knights at Paige Field House aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pe... More

A large crowd awaits the arrival of Marine Light Attack

A large crowd awaits the arrival of Marine Light Attack

A large crowd awaits the arrival of Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 267 with signs and banners as music plays. The Stingers of HMLA–267 returned home after a seven-month deployment to Afghanistan with 2... More

Col. Frank A. Richie, the commanding officer of Marine

Col. Frank A. Richie, the commanding officer of Marine

Col. Frank A. Richie, the commanding officer of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, Calif., presents an award for more than 40 years of civil service with the Marine Corps to Bob Stopp, the air station’s athletic... More

Last CH-46E flight before re-designation

Last CH-46E flight before re-designation

Lt. Col. Joseph Levreault, commanding officer of Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 163 and a South Hadley, Mass., native, celebrates after a traditional “wet down” following the unit’s last flight of the CH-46E... More

Last CH-46E flight before re-designation

Last CH-46E flight before re-designation

Lt. Col. Joseph Levreault, the commanding officer of Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 163 and a South Hadley, Mass., native, lands a CH-46E Sea Knight after a ceremonial final flight from Marine Corps Air Stat... More

Cpl. Joshua McAnally, an aviation electrician with

Cpl. Joshua McAnally, an aviation electrician with

Cpl. Joshua McAnally, an aviation electrician with Marine All-Weather Fighter Attack Squadron 121 and a Flintville, Tenn., native, performs a daily inspection on an F/A-18D aboard Marine Corps Air Station Miram... More

Recognizing the Falcons

Recognizing the Falcons

Sgt. Dustin Ellison, right, the center and offensive tackle for the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Falcons and a Brevard, N.C., native, accepts the “Gung Ho” award on behalf of Cpl. Thomas Vanderlaan during a... More

Karen Driscoll, center, spouse of Col. Jerome Driscoll

Karen Driscoll, center, spouse of Col. Jerome Driscoll

Karen Driscoll, center, spouse of Col. Jerome Driscoll and founder of Autism Care and Treatment Today for Military Families, receives a San Diego Military Advisory Council Achievement Award from Navy Adm. Rober... More

Food service Marines work to prepare food for fellow

Food service Marines work to prepare food for fellow

Food service Marines work to prepare food for fellow Marines aboard Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, Dec. 5. Gonzales Hall personnel are competing with 10 other field and garrison mess halls throughout the Mar... More

Marines from Marine Corps Air Station Miramar sign

Marines from Marine Corps Air Station Miramar sign

Marines from Marine Corps Air Station Miramar sign in at the Summit for Children Worldwide Holiday with Heroes event Dec. 7 in Poway, Calif. This annual event pairs one of more than 50 Marines, sailors and poli... More

3d MAW Marines prep for return to Afghanistan

3d MAW Marines prep for return to Afghanistan

The Marines and sailors of 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (Forward) bring the aviation combat element compound to life aboard Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, Calif., Dec. 8. The 3rd MAW (Fwd) personnel are particip... More

Stevi Colby, right, a Semper Fit administrator and

Stevi Colby, right, a Semper Fit administrator and

Stevi Colby, right, a Semper Fit administrator and a Boulder, Colo., native, hands bells to runners for their shoes before the Jingle Bell Jog sponsored by Marine Corps Community Services and Semper Fit aboard ... More

Marines with Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron

Marines with Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron

Marines with Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron don and clear their M-50 field protective mask after a ‘surprise CS gas grenade’ ignites during a conditioning hike aboard Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, C... More

Mike Relucio, the fitness coordinator for the High

Mike Relucio, the fitness coordinator for the High

Mike Relucio, the fitness coordinator for the High Intensity Tactical Training Center and manager for The Barn Fitness Center aboard Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, Calif., won “The Price is Right” game show ... More

Lance Cpl. Chase Enfinger, an expeditionary airfield

Lance Cpl. Chase Enfinger, an expeditionary airfield

Lance Cpl. Chase Enfinger, an expeditionary airfield technician with Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron and a Dothan, Ala., native, lines up a shot Jan. 5 at the Great Escape aboard Marine Corps Air Station... More

Pfc. Andrew J. Pfenning, an administrative specialist

Pfc. Andrew J. Pfenning, an administrative specialist

Pfc. Andrew J. Pfenning, an administrative specialist at the Installation Personnel Administrative Center with Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron, lines up his shot at the Great Escape aboard Marine Corps A... More

A Bravo Company, 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion

A Bravo Company, 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion

A Bravo Company, 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion Marine from Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms guides a Light Armored Reconnaissance Vehicle to the refueling station aboard MCAGC... More

Air-to-ground refuel practice via Osprey

Air-to-ground refuel practice via Osprey

Bravo Company, 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion Marines from Twentynine Palms, wait for their Light Armored Reconnaissance Vehicle to be refueled aboard Marine Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palm... More

Training a gas for Miramar Marines

Training a gas for Miramar Marines

Marines with Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 11 don and clear their gas masks before entering the gas chamber aboard Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, Jan. 12. The gas chamber is where Marines learn to have ... More

Crunch, prepare, file: Tax season at MCAS Miramar

Crunch, prepare, file: Tax season at MCAS Miramar

Lance Cpl. Shantenia Carr, right, a tax preparer with Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron at the Tax Center aboard Marine Corps Air Station Miramar and a San Diego native, reviews an intake interview sheet w... More

A Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Marine breaks the

A Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Marine breaks the

A Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Marine breaks the seal of his M-50 field protective mask inside the confidence chamber here, Jan. 12. Marines break the seal of their M-50 field protective mask to reseal and ... More

Marines with Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 16

Marines with Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 16

Marines with Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 16 perform push-ups aboard Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, Jan. 20. Marines in groups of three took turns resting and spotting for Marines doing push-ups for a ... More

A Marine with Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 16

A Marine with Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 16

A Marine with Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 16 reassembles part of a GAU-21 .50-caliber machine gun aboard Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, Calif., Jan. 24. MALS-16’s ordnance Marines are directly respons... More

Col. Frank A. Richie, far right, commanding officer

Col. Frank A. Richie, far right, commanding officer

Col. Frank A. Richie, far right, commanding officer of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, and Francis McComb, far left, the Marine Corps Community Services director, pose for a group photo with 40-year civil ser... More

Craig Schnappinger, a goalie with the United States

Craig Schnappinger, a goalie with the United States

Craig Schnappinger, a goalie with the United States Military All-Stars and a Mystic, Conn., native, guards his goal during a game against the San Diego Gulls Alumni at the San Diego Ice Arena, Jan. 28. The fund... More

U.S. Marines (not shown) assigned to 3rd Marine Aircraft

U.S. Marines (not shown) assigned to 3rd Marine Aircraft

U.S. Marines (not shown) assigned to 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, raise 50 national flags during the open house and dedication of the Avenue of Flags at Miramar National Cemetery, San Diego, Jan. 28, 2012. U.S. Ma... More

Cryogenic Marines with Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron

Cryogenic Marines with Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron

Cryogenic Marines with Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 11 participate in the pre-Super Bowl party with Chargers Girls aboard Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, Calif., Feb. 2. Marine Corps Community Services ... More

Students with the North County Scuba Center prepare

Students with the North County Scuba Center prepare

Students with the North County Scuba Center prepare to enter the Pacific Ocean for an underwater scuba class at La Jolla Shores, Feb. 4. Marines can use tuition assistance to help pay for scuba diving certifica... More

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