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The Marines on the Combat Center in Twentynine Palms will hold a non-combatant evacuation operation exercise today (Friday April 16). The exercise will be held at the Lance Corporal Torrey Gray Field on the base from 1 to 10 p.m. Roads around the field will also be closed during that time: Sturgis Road, Fifth and Sixth Streets, and the Del Valle track and field. Areas closed from 4 to 10 p.m. are Third Street between Bourke and Del Valle, and Del Valle Road from First to Fourth Streets. Marines with Combat Logistics Battalion 24 begin to check role-players through their Evacuation Control Cen...

Integrated Training Exercise, or ITX, is a training exercise on the Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms that focuses on the tactical application of combined-arms maneuver warfare. ITX provides service-level assessments of battalion-size units and their associated combat support, combat service support, and aviation assets while conducting live-fire training. The purpose of ITX is to create a challenging, realistic training environment that produces combat-ready forces capable of operating as an integrated Marine Air-Ground Task Force. Marines with 1st Battalion, 5th Mari...

A 49-year-old Yucca Valley man was arrested Thursday, accused of sexting a 17-year-old girl. Detectives at the Morongo Basin Sheriff’s Station learned that Miguel Alsop had been sending inappropriate text messages to the girl. Detectives obtained a search warrant, and about 9 a.m. Tuesday, went to Alsop’s home in the 7100 block of Rubidoux Avenue. During their investigation, detectives discovered that Alsop had sent several sexual-related texts to the girl. An arrest warrant was issued for Alsop’s arrest, and about 6 p.m. Thursday, April 8, Alsop turned himself in. Miguel Alsop was arre...

The Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center has 930 square miles of desert which is used to provide realistic training for troops.  Managing editor Tami Roleff says the Combat Center’s Range 400 is used to train rifle companies in the techniques and procedures for attacking fortified areas, and is one of the most dynamic live-fire ranges in the Marine Corps… Range 400 on the Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center is the only live-fire training range. LCpl Joshua Sechser USMC photo The Combat Center’s Range 400 is the only training ground in the Marine Corps where live fire is authorized,...

The California Highway Patrol has released more information about a crash in Morongo Valley Thursday that injured a woman. About 12:25 p.m., Christina Hilton, 33, of Yucca Valley, was driving a black 2008 Porsche Cayenne westbound on Highway 62. She had pulled into the left turn lane to turn southbound onto Rose Eden Drive and was waiting for traffic to clear. Her view of oncoming traffic was partially blocked by an unrelated truck that was stopped eastbound on the highway, waiting to make a left turn onto northbound Rose Eden Drive. Hilton thought the traffic was cleared and turned. A black ...