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Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow

Barstow, California

Archive: August, 2003

Weapons section gives explosive support

Some Marines and MCLB Barstow base employees may have never realized before that Maintenance Center Barstow's Cost Work Centers 686, 687, 688 even existed. The shop is not difficult to miss. Located in the west end of Warehouse 404 at the Yermo annex, CWC's 686, 687, 688 is away from the toils of the massive MCB building. However, you can almost

MCLB Barstow: proven value - Past, present show base's worth as it prepares for future

Located in the Mojave Desert, approximately 145 miles north of Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton and 147 miles west of Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center 29 Palms sits another one of the Corps' major players on the West Coast, Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow, Calif.Presently the second largest employer in the Barstow area, MCLB Barstow was

Air Defense system shop one of a kind

If an enemy fighter plane is traveling from point A toward point B at 400 miles per hour, and a Patriot Missile is traveling toward an enemy plane, locked on target utilizing heat-seeking technology, which will arrive at its destination first? Answer: Patriot Missile. It's these kind of modern warfare dilemmas the crew of Maintenance Center Barstow

CWC 729 keep M198s fully mission capable

Throughout Operation Iraqi Freedom, hailstorms of fire from 155mm M198 Howitzer cannons lit up the Iraqi horizon, dealing death and destruction to enemy combatants who still had the will to fight. As the enemy faced certain defeat before the eerily glorious explosions of 155mm ammunition, what few may have known was that many of the 72 Marine Corps

CWC 725 rebuilds, restores, reutilizes M1A1 Abrams Tanks

Restoring a classic automobile to its original showroom condition is no easy task, but when compared to restoring or rebuilding a battle-torn M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tank it's like a Sunday drive. Just ask the folks at Cost Work Center 725, Maintenance Center Barstow, who perform this enormous task daily. When purchasing a classic automobile the

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