Quantico Middle/High School Basketball wins by double digits
February 28, 2014 — The Warriors of Quantico Middle/High School played the Warriors of Saint Michael the Archangel High School from Fredericksburg in basketball at home Monday Jan. 27, 2014. Both teams played with unrelenting defenses throughout the game, with Quantico coming out a little ahead.By the end of the first half, Quantico had put a little cushion on the MORE
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Commissary cut-through to close during morning rush
February 27, 2014 — Beginning Feb. 28, the two entrances to the commissary and Marine Corps Exchange parking lot will be closed during the morning rush hour. MORE
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468 seats up for grabs
February 26, 2014 — In November every seat in the House of Representatives and one third of the Senate will be up for election. For service members, different situations may determine different ways of voting, but no matter where they may find themselves, registering will always be the same.
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MCBQ encounters watch
February 26, 2014 — You’ve seen it on the television, heard it on the radio and read it online, but what exactly is the difference between a tornado watch and a tornado warning?Last week a tornado watch was issued for the Marine Corps Base Quantico area, and for some who are new to the area, the difference between a watch and a warning may be unclear.A tornado watch MORE
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Combat Hunter training available through MarineNet
February 25, 2014 — The Combat Hunter Curriculum, MTESD0CHC1, is now available on MarineNet for all Marines. According to e-mails from James Corvin Customer Outreach Coordinator, and Capt. Jason Pollard, Infantry Task Analyst, the courses, designed as a precursor to the week and a half-long Combat Hunter Course, feature “visually rich content as well as interactive MORE
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Hustle is the name of the game
February 25, 2014 — Focused and determined the Weapons Training Battalion intramural basketball team pushed themselves through a dress rehearsal of on-court game strategies up to the last few seconds before the start of a game against the Enlisted Instructor Platoon at the Barber Physical Fitness Center on Feb. 25, 2014. While the 12 WTBN players warmed up, EIP was MORE
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Respecting slaves’ value at Mount Vernon
February 24, 2014 — The unfailing contributions of those enslaved in the United States more than 154 years ago were commemorated at Mount Vernon during the month of February to honor of black history month.The Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association of the Union was founded in 1853 by Ann Pamela Cunningham, she gathered 11 other women and they took over George Washington’s MORE
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Marines patrol the woods of Quantico
February 24, 2014 — Quickly and silently, 2nd Lt. Miles Stebbins, a student at The Basic School, emerged from a tree line and lowered himself onto the cool, muddy ground while providing security for the rest of his squad during a field exercise at TBS on Feb. 24, 2014.Marines from Alpha Company were participating in the second field exercise of their six-month MORE
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Escape a stubborn winter at local indoor attractions
February 21, 2014 — Punxsutawney Phil, the nation’s foremost rodent weather prognosticator, has historically predicted the early onset of spring, or lack thereof, with an accuracy rate of just 39 percent, according to the Stormfax Weather Almanac — dismally low, considering that unaided, dumb luck should put him around 50 percent. However, the hapless woodland oracle MORE
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Clinic, Semper Fit support Great American Spit Out
February 19, 2014 — Nursing one wad of dip for half an hour results in three cigarettes’ worth of nicotine intake, while two cans of dip per week contain as much nicotine as one to one-and-a-half packs of cigarettes per day. These were among the facts Nancy Walker, nurse health educator at Naval Health Clinic Quantico, and Semper Fit intern Laurel Jimenez were MORE
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