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Marine Corps Base Quantico targets tobacco use during a healthy base initiative. Smoking is responsible for over 440,000 deaths per year. - Marine Corps Base Quantico targets tobacco use during a healthy base initiative. Smoking is responsible for over 440,000 deaths per year.

Now you can quit smoking

Cigarette smoking is responsible for about one in five deaths annually, more than 440,000 deaths per year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website,. This is one reason why Marine Corps Base Quantico has devoted personnel and programs to promote tobacco cessation. As part of the healthy base initiative, Marine Corps Base

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Clayton, 4, plays with Legos while his mother attends a parenting class aboard Marine Corps Base Quantico on June 19, 2013. Setting routines was the topic of the quarterly class. - Clayton, 4, plays with Legos while his mother attends a parenting class aboard Marine Corps Base Quantico on June 19, 2013. Setting routines was the topic of the quarterly class.

Routine parenting to the rescue

Parenting can be stressful and challenging. To counter those challenges and assist parents in finding success with their children, Marine Corps Community Services offers a variety of parenting classes.“Routines For Your Kids” is a class offered quarterly at the Child Development Centers aboard base. Other parenting classes are offered monthly.The

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Soldiers from the United Kingdom Army work at a Command Operations Center during a logistics war game aboard Marine Corps Base Quantico on June 19, 2013. Over 30 organizations participated in the week long war game. - Soldiers from the United Kingdom Army work at a Command Operations Center during a logistics war game aboard Marine Corps Base Quantico on June 19, 2013. Over 30 organizations participated in the week long war game.

New systems evaluated during wargame

Intensity filled the air. Scores of laptops, some alive with fingers flying over its keys, others asleep, lay strewn across tables. Dozens of people purposefully rushed in and out of rooms. The seventh annual Expeditionary Logistics Wargame was in full swing.More than 30 organizations including Headquarters Marine Corps, Second Marine Expeditionary

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International coaches teach soccer camp aboard base

Bouncing a soccer ball in the air from one foot to another, a young man with a strong Irish accent explained some soccer moves to a handful of children between the ages of eight and 14 years old at Butler Stadium aboard Marine Corps Base Quantico on June 18, 2013.The children were part of a weeklong summer soccer camp hosted by Challenger Sports

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The Athletics baseball team, part of the Youth Sports League, pose for a team picture after playing the World Series aboard Marine Corps Base Quantico on June 15, 2013. The Athletics won the game making them undefeated during the 2013 season. - The Athletics baseball team, part of the Youth Sports League, pose for a team picture after playing the World Series aboard Marine Corps Base Quantico on June 15, 2013. The Athletics won the game making them undefeated during the 2013 season.

Athletics go all the way

Cheers erupted from a crowd of parents who lined up outside a fence as inside, petite baseball players -- clad in a dirty, green uniforms -- scored a run at Marine Corps Base Quantico on June 15, 2013. The Athletics and Red Sox, two little league teams that are part of the Youth Sports Program aboard base, were contending for the final game of the

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Dean Graves, former Marine officer, bows in prayer at the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Tirangle, Va., on June 15, 2013. Graves participated in a dedication ceremony to honor the Basic Officers Class 3-57. - Dean Graves, former Marine officer, bows in prayer at the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Tirangle, Va., on June 15, 2013. Graves participated in a dedication ceremony to honor the Basic Officers Class 3-57.

Over 90 former officers visit museum for dedication

More than 90 former Marine Corps officers and their families gathered at the National Museum of the Marine Corps on June 15, 2013, to dedicate a monument honoring the Basic Officers Class 3-57 which graduated in 1957. Five hundred and fifty volunteers were made into Marine officers during that class and, 56 years later, about seventeen percent of

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Members of the Quantico Naval Health Clinic volleyball team attempt to block a spike during the 2013 intramural volleyball championship game at Barber Physical Activities Center aboard Marine Corps Base Quantico on June 14, 2013. NHCQ beat Headquarters and Service Bn., winning their first championship. - Members of the Quantico Naval Health Clinic volleyball team attempt to block a spike during the 2013 intramural volleyball championship game at Barber Physical Activities Center aboard Marine Corps Base Quantico on June 14, 2013. NHCQ beat Headquarters and Service Bn., winning their first championship.

Tight race for the 2013 volleyball trophy

As sweat poured down the participants faces, volleyballs were collected, the scoreboard was reset, bleachers were retracted and the net was taken down. Players from the Headquarters and Service Battalion, Marine Corps Systems Command and Naval Health Clinic Quantico volleyball teams exited Barber Physical Activities Center after two playoff games

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Sgt. Brandan Jansen, team captain, Combat Shooting Team, fires a shotgun during Long Range Training on Range 14D on Feb. 5, 2013. - Sgt. Brandan Jansen, team captain, Combat Shooting Team, fires a shotgun during Long Range Training on Range 14D on Feb. 5, 2013.

Marine speaks of past experiences

Every day Marines pass each other on Marine Corps Base Quantico, give the proper greeting of the day and maybe even grunt a motivational word or two. Rarely do they know the heroic stories and experiences that fill the boots of the brother or sister they’ve just passed. Sgt. Brandan Jansen, team captain of the Combat Shooting Team, Marine Corps

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Benjamin, 3 years old, casts a fishing line as his dad, Sgt. Jason Hodge, avoids getting hooked during the Commander's Snakehead Fishing Tournament aboard Marine Corps Base Quantico on June 8, 2013. Over a dozen teams competed during the 24-hour tournament. - Benjamin, 3 years old, casts a fishing line as his dad, Sgt. Jason Hodge, avoids getting hooked during the Commander's Snakehead Fishing Tournament aboard Marine Corps Base Quantico on June 8, 2013. Over a dozen teams competed during the 24-hour tournament.

Jarheads hunt Snakeheads at Crossroads

A curtain of rain welcomed the opening of the Commander’s Snakehead Fishing Tournament at 3 p.m. aboard Marine Corps Base Quantico on June 7, 2013. The challenge to land the prize prey was limited to a 24-hour hunt over the Quantico Creek, Chopawamsic Creek and Potomac River and was accepted by a score of teams.“We want people to realize the

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Sgt. Stephany Rector, president of the mess, tastes the beef before declaring it fit to serve to the “mess” during the Headquarters Company Mess Night aboard Marine Corps Base Quantico on June 5, 2013. The taste test was one of several Marine Corps traditions that are a part of the ceremonial dinner - Sgt. Stephany Rector, president of the mess, tastes the beef before declaring it fit to serve to the “mess” during the Headquarters Company Mess Night aboard Marine Corps Base Quantico on June 5, 2013. The taste test was one of several Marine Corps traditions that are a part of the ceremonial dinner

Marines participate in tradition

Four-dozen Headquarters Company Marines, clad in Dress Blue uniforms entered the Clubs at Quantico on June 5, 2013, for a time of tradition and camaraderie. The Clubs was the staging point for a formal, noncommissioned officer dinner known by the Marine Corps as “Mess Night,” a tradition that began in the 1920s by the Fourth Marine Regiment in

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