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Col. Joseph Murray, base commander, personally shakes the hand of David Payne. - Col. Joseph Murray, base commander, personally shakes the hand of David Payne.

FMS beats the Blizzard of 2016

Col. Joseph Murray, base commander, and Sgt. Maj. Gerald Saunders, recently visited Facilities Maintenance Section to thank them for the outstanding job the civilian employees and service members did removing snow during the Blizzard of 2016.

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MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Va. — The school won a performance by Jump with Jill, a rock and roll nutrition show that teaches and celebrates healthy habits through music and dance. Jill (Hailey McDonell) performs for Claremont Elementary students Feb. 5. - MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Va. — The school won a performance by Jump with Jill, a rock and roll nutrition show that teaches and celebrates healthy habits through music and dance. Jill (Hailey McDonell) performs for Claremont Elementary students Feb. 5.

Marine Corps Marathon presents the Healthy School award

“Can you all say ‘Ooh Rah’?” Rick Nealis, Marine Corps Marathon (MCM) director, asked the 700 children packed into the Claremont Immersion Elementary School gymnasium. “That’s the only way my two dogs, Miles and Molly, will come out.”

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What you need to know about the Zika virus

Zika is a viral infection spread by mosquito bites. Recently, Zika virus infections in pregnant women have been linked to infants born with birth defects. Ongoing Zika virus transmission is predominately occurring in South and Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have issued a travel alert for all of these areas.

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“The first Negro to be commissioned in the Marine Corps has his second lieutenant’s bars pinned on by his wife. He is Frederick C. Branch of Charlotte, NC.”, - “The first Negro to be commissioned in the Marine Corps has his second lieutenant’s bars pinned on by his wife. He is Frederick C. Branch of Charlotte, NC.”,

Celebrating the contributions of Frederick Branch

Marine Corps Base Quantico often names its buildings after Marines who have given the ultimate sacrifice for their countries or contributed to the Marine Corps in a special way. Branch Hall at the Officer Candidates School is no exception. The building is named after Frederick Clinton Branch, the first African American officer in the Marine Corps.

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Brig. Gen. J.D. Alford, commanding general, Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory/Futures Directorate, talks with Science Fiction Writer's Workshop participants Feb. 4. - Brig. Gen. J.D. Alford, commanding general, Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory/Futures Directorate, talks with Science Fiction Writer's Workshop participants Feb. 4.

Narrative of the future developed at Science Fiction Futures workshop

The Marine Corps of 2035 will fight in megacities in Southeast Asia and the Pacific, deploying from an arid United States that has retreated to a defensive posture and directs little funding to the military.

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Discovery

Luke 24:32 They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”

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Active duty Marines experience the freezing water of the 2016 Polar Bear Blast, which raised funds for the EOD Warrior Foundation, at James Monroe High School Feb. 6. - Active duty Marines experience the freezing water of the 2016 Polar Bear Blast, which raised funds for the EOD Warrior Foundation, at James Monroe High School Feb. 6.

300 brave freezing waters at Polar Bear Plunge to support EOD Warrior Foundation

“This water has been pumped from the Rappahannock River just for you!” Ken Falk, founder of the EOD (explosive ordnance disposal) Warrior Foundation, told the nearly 300 participants of the ninth annual Polar Bear Plunge.

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Sgt. Elizabeth Orrie, Defense Intelligence Agency, and her date, former Marine Alex Pereira, walk in the parade that began the Headquarters and Service Battalion Mardi Gras Masquerade Ball Jan. 29. - Sgt. Elizabeth Orrie, Defense Intelligence Agency, and her date, former Marine Alex Pereira, walk in the parade that began the Headquarters and Service Battalion Mardi Gras Masquerade Ball Jan. 29.

Marines celebrate Mardi Gras with a Masquerade Ball

Headquarters and Service Battalion held its first ever Mardi Gras Masquerade Ball at The Clubs at Quantico on Jan. 29. The ball was for sergeants and below and was meant to build unit cohesion and give Marines within H&S Battalion a chance to come together off-duty. Seventy-two people attended the event dressed in fancy ball gowns, suits, and feathered, glittered, and bejeweled masks.

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A Head for the Future initiative raises awareness of traumatic brain injury among service members

Nearly 340,000 active duty and veteran service members suffer from Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), but the surprising fact is that most of those were not sustained in a combat setting.

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Eighteenth-century ceramic pieces uncovered at the Westwood plantation, the 1740 home of Reverend James Scott, located on what is now the west wide of Marine Corps Base Quantico. - Eighteenth-century ceramic pieces uncovered at the Westwood plantation, the 1740 home of Reverend James Scott, located on what is now the west wide of Marine Corps Base Quantico.

Base archaeologist uncovers Quantico’s history from 5,000 years ago to today

Archaeological digs on Marine Corps Base Quantico have turned up 5,000-year-old Native American spear points, a 124-pound cannonball from Civil War encampments and long-forgotten family cemeteries from the late 1800s.

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