Quantico’s first snakehead fishing tournament to run for 24 hours
May 31, 2013 — Registration is now open for Marine Corps Base Quantico’s first snakehead fishing tournament, which will consist of 24 hours of competitive fishing, by hook and by bow, in all waters on and around the base that are open to the public. Fishing will begin at 3 p.m., June 7, 2013, and culminate with a weigh-in party featuring prizes, live music, MORE
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Naval Academy midshipmen get introduction to Corps on TBS E-course
May 31, 2013 — As one fire team after another hustled past, dressed in full gear late in the humid morning, Gunnery Sgt. Lavon Mitchell reminded them to keep their helmets on and hold tight to their rifles. The endurance course they were running at The Basic School begins with the obstacle course and winds through the woods for five hilly miles, punctuated with MORE
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Training Support Center brings the boom to live battle simulations
May 30, 2013 — On a gravel road through a bazaar hung with decorative rugs and sides of beef, while a Muslim call to prayer echoes through the otherwise eerily quiet streets and the smell of rotting corpses occasionally wafts past, it’s easy to feel out of one’s element. A little nervousness can be forgiven, especially when it’s known that this is a demonstration MORE
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Jujutsu class to begin in June at Barber Physical Activity Center
May 30, 2013 — For Marines and other Department of Defense employees interested in learning not just self-defense but also the art of the kill, Marine Corps Community Services will begin offering jujutsu classes next month at Barber Physical Activity Center. Instructor David Lamond, who runs a dojo in Fredericksburg, taught jujutsu at Quantico in the mid- to MORE
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Budget cuts bring changes to fees, hours at 50-meter pool
May 30, 2013 — Due to budget cuts, hours and fees at the Quantico 50-meter pool, which opens May 25, will be altered from last year. Enlisted service members ranked sergeant and below, who previously used the pool for free, will pay $2 for entry, and most other single-entry fees are being bumped up by 50 cents to $1. Season passes for service members ranked E-1 MORE
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Four generations hits 105 years of service
May 30, 2013 — By definition, legacy is something handed down from an ancestor or a predecessor or from the past. For the Gerichten family, with three generations and five Marines, legacy has a 105-year span of service to their country.That legacy began with a man named Bill and his wife Joan from Kernersville, N.C. Their legacy stretched to the second MORE
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Branch clinics have big day of summer in-processing
May 29, 2013 — More than 650 officer candidates and officers were processed into the clinics at the Officer Candidates School and The Basic School on May 29, in one of the busiest days of the year for Naval Health Clinic Quantico’s satellite branches. The staff at OCS’s John H. Bradley Branch Clinic refers to its summertime support of the school’s candidates — MORE
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Calm consistent play makes Systems Command the victor
May 27, 2013 — Competitive noises filled the courts at the Barber Physical Activities Center on May 28, 2013, as the Marine Corps Systems Command and The Basic School volleyball teams participated in the first game of the evening. Participating in the Quantico intramural volleyball league, the 4-0 MCSC team outplayed the 1-4 TBS team and found themselves victors MORE
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Forever honored, Memorial Day Ceremony held at Quantico National Cemetery
May 27, 2013 — The Potomac Region Veterans Council paid tribute to the fallen during a Memorial Day Ceremony held at Quantico National Cemetery on May 27, 2013. The day’s theme was honed by the guest speaker, Betty Moseley Brown, associate director of the Veterans Affairs Center for Women Veterans, who said, "For 229 years now, in defining moments of both calm MORE
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Town of Quantico keeps the music going
May 25, 2013 — There was plenty to do this Memorial Day weekend from restaurants to amusement parks. Yet the highlight of the weekend aboard Marine Corps Base Quantico had to be the Town of Quantico’s 2013 Summer Music Concert Series at the town's Municipal Park on May 25. In March, a special town council meeting was called to discuss what events and activities MORE
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