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Marjah vet donates painful battle reminder to museum

Luis Hernandez can tell you the details as if they happened yesterday. It was Easter Sunday 2010 when the former Marine squad leader was leading a patrol in the southern Afghanistan town of Marjah when an improvised explosive device laden with glass, bullets, razors and bolts suddenly went off just a few feet in front of him, riddling nearly every part of his body with shrapnel

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Marjah veterans gather at NMMC for 5-year reunion

Some no longer wore the uniform, but, five years after taking part in one of the biggest battles in the Global War on Terror, they are all still Marines. Gathering at the National Museum of the Marine Corps for Friday night’s Marjah Marines Reunion Dinner, several hundred of the Marines, sailors and airmen who scored one of the most decisive victories in the war in Afghanistan joined family and friends in regaling over their many accomplishments in the face of a determined Taliban enemy while also remembering their fallen comrades. The dinner was the emotional climax of a three-day reunion aboard Marine Corps Base Quantico.

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World War II vets headed back to Iwo Jima, Young Marines make it possible

Medal of Honor recipient Herschel “Woody” Williams will be among the 15 World War II veterans headed back to Iwo Jima next month, and he has the Young Marines to thank for it. The veterans will be among those making the Iwo Jima Association of America’s “Reunion of Honor” trip next month. The weeklong trip, which will also include a stop in Guam, will take the aging warriors and several of their family members back to the site of some of the fiercest combat of the entire Pacific Theater.

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Marjah veterans to reunite at Quantico five years later

An appearance by Medal of Honor recipient William Kyle Carpenter will highlight the upcoming fifth-year reunion of the Marines, soldiers, sailors and coalition forces who participated in one of the largest operations in the Global War on Terror.

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TBS to dedicate Capodanno MOH

The Medal of Honor belonging to Father Vincent Capodanno will be unveiled Tuesday at its new home at The Basic School that already bears his name. The 4 p.m. ceremony at the Capodanno Chapel, whose theme will appropriately be “Serving Alongside Marines,” will formally mark the local debut of the Medal of Honor posthumously awarded to the Navy lieutenant who gallantly gave his own life for the Marines with whom he served during the Vietnam War. The Capodanno family donated the Medal of Honor to TBS in September to assure that it would be properly taken care of and displayed prominently.

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OCS grad follows grandfather’s footsteps into USMC

What began many years ago as a little boy’s distant dream became a heartwarming reality on Tuesday when Steve Brackeen Turunc graduated from the Officer Candidates School and became a Marine Corps officer. Ten weeks after arriving at Marine Corps Base Quantico with the intent of following his grandfather’s footsteps, Turunc was among the 169 candidates to receive the gold bars signifying their status as newly minted second lieutenants before a large throng of friends and family at the National Museum of the Marine Corps.

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Medal of Honor recipient visits Quantico

A bus halted behind the chow hall at The Basic School on Sept. 13, 2013. An elderly man, with a

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Medal of Honor family visits The Basic School

Family members of Medal of Honor recipient 1st Lt. Baldomero Lopez visited The Basic School on March

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