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Team Marines gears up for 2003 Season

The start of the 2003 NASCAR Busch Grand National series is nearing, and the Marine Corps and Team Rensi Motorsports are prepared to continue the success they found in 2002. The team returns with its top-10 finishing 2002 crew, February 15 at Daytona International Speedway for the season opener. The team finished 8th in points last season, the best

Reservists in Long Island Activated

The stark reality of current events touched this sleepy Long Island hamlet Saturday when Marine Reservists of A Company, 6th Communications Battalion here received orders to activate. They join the thousands of citizen-Marines at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C., who have been called to service and are awaiting further orders. For many of the

NASDAQ Pledge Support to Reserve and National Guard

NEW YORK -- The National Guard and Reserve components of the Armed Forces were represented today at the NASDAQ MarketSite here in Times Square as retired Marine Maj. Gen. Robert Hollingsworth started the day's trading. Hollingsworth is now serving as the executive director of the National Committee of Employer Support for the Guard and Reserve

Marine fights for life after recruit training

His expression was a perfect 50/50 split -- half shock and half excitement as his Parris Island drill instructor entered his home and presented him with a new set of Dress Blue's, February 3. House calls are not commonplace in the Marine Corps, but for someone with as much heart and dedication as Pvt. Timothy Arathuzik, an exception was made. The

Enlisted Marines get a taste of OCS

As Gunnery Sgt. Charles Walters lowered himself into the frozen swamp waters he wasn't wondering what he had got himself into...he was more concerned with the icy obstacle he was in and how he was going to get out. Recently, Marine Corps Recruiting Command and the Officer Candidate School held an Officer Selection Assistant (OSA) Course here. The

Demanding senior drill instructor instills discipline

A hornet lands on a recruit's face in the middle of a uniform inspection and begins to crawl up and down. It starts to tickle and then becomes an unsettling itch. Drops of sweat pour down the recruit's face as the itching becomes more and more unbearable. What makes this recruit stand still? Why doesn't he swat the hornet away? The answer is

Chemical agents - how to MOPP up

Ever since the development of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, Marines have trained to protect themselves from its effects and carry on with the mission. Part one of this three-part series emphasizes the history, creation and symptms of exposure to agents used as weapons * Chemical warfare began during World War I. On April 22, 1915,

Mobile legal team sets up shop underway

Three members of the Depot Staff Judge Advocates Office and one Marine reservist flew from Naval Air Station, North Island, to the USS Nimitz for a three-day training exercise Jan. 17-20. The training exercise was to test the abilities of Capt. Bryan E. Cornelius, legal assistance officer-in-charge, Cpl. Manuel Acosta and Lance Cpl. Stan Wong,

Along for a ride with USS Nimitz

To make any budding metropolitan city work several different elements are needed. An airport, shopping centers, a television news network, police officers and a jail, a place for eating, a library and mainly an area of land to designate the boundaries. Take away the land and confine the residents to a ship floating at sea with a very specific

Former Marine serves Raider nation

In 1972, the Oakland Raiders went 10-3-1 in the regular season and later lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers 13-7 in the first round of the playoffs. The same year, a 17-year-old from Hornell, N.Y., left home for the Marine Corps. Little did he know his decision to serve his country would steer him down the path that would eventually lead him to a

Marine Corps Recruiting Command