Editor’s note: This story is No. 5 in a series looking at the top 10 stories of 2020 for The Daily News, counting down from 10 to 1 from Dec. 23 to Jan. 1.
In September a team of four law firms filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina suing eight limited liability companies involved in owning and managing privatized base housing on Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune.
Lendlease, Atlantic Marine Corps Communities (AMCC) and Winn Management Group are among the companies involved in the lawsuit filed on behalf of three Marine families, all of which have young children and claim to have been adversely affected by housing conditions on base.
Antiwar.com Original Love boats, Oedipus complexes, and pants suits on a desert island – a pair of new schmaltzy films, courtesy of the US Department of Defense, are the Christmas present we could all do without.
You know how it goes, you spend half your life waiting for the US military to help make a sentimental, Christmas-themed romantic comedy and then two come along at once: Hallmark’s ‘USS Christmas’ and Netflix’s ‘Operation Christmas Drop’.
Neither film could have been made without military support – nearly half of ‘USS Christmas’ takes place on board an aircraft carrier, and the scenes were filmed
Personnel on Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Cherry Point were given their first round the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday after doses arrived at Naval Health Clinic Cherry Point a day earlier.
U.S. Navy Sailor LT. Anthony Bleyer Jr., a physician in the respiratory clinic, and Michael Labelle, a health benefits provider, both assigned to Naval Health Clinic Cherry Point, were the first to receive the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, according to an official U.S. Marine Corps photo that was released on Wednesday.
Additional personnel photographed as being among the first to receive the vaccine at Cherry Point were Walter DaVila, a Services Officer with Naval Criminal Investigative Service, and Josh Boudreau, Assistant Chief for MCAS Cherry Point Fire and Emergency Services.
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A newly certified live-fire range on Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune is drawing attention to a shift in how infantry units in the Marine Corps are preparing for combat.
Range Golf-36 (G-36), Camp Lejeune’s first company-sized range, had its first exercise on Dec. 12 when Marines and Sailors in 3d Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2d Marine Division (2d MARDIV) conducted a live-fire company assault against a mobile, robotic and remote controlled opposition.
“The range was specially designed to take full advantage of Trackless Motorized Infantry Targets [or] robotic targets,” said division gunner CWO5 Joshua Smith in a 2d MARDIV press release. “These types of targets offer a more realistic enemy – one that is not tied to a single point, but can maneuver across the battlefield, which causes friction to the attacking force.”