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Cpl. Rene PonceAvalos, a 22-year-old engineer equipment operator from Beaverton, Ore., went missing Sunday afternoon while surfing near Okinawa’s Ikei Island, according to a statement Monday from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit.
By MATTHEW M. BURKE | STARS AND STRIPES Published: March 2, 2021 CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — A Marine who went missing while surfing over the weekend, and was later pronounced dead at an Okinawa hospital, was remembered Tuesday as a beloved member of Combat Logistics Battalion 31 whose spirit “represented the best the Marine Corps has to offer.” Cpl. Rene PonceAvalos, a 22-year-old engineer equipment operator from Beaverton, Ore., went missing Sunday afternoon while surfing near Okinawa’s Ikei Island, according to a statement Monday from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit. PonceAvalos w...
PLYMOUTH – An administrative oversight initially prevented Jesse James Jackson from receiving trailblazing national recognition as one of the first African American Marines. But correcting the mistake only added to the glory and allowed the longtime White Cliffs resident to celebrate what he called “the best day in my whole life” at a spry 92, when he was honored with a Congressional Gold Medal as a Montford Point Marine. A Georgia native who would have turned 100 next June, Jackson cut as fine a figure in the business world as he did in uniform. From his origins as a young entrepreneur...