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Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow

Barstow, California

Archive: February, 2004

Legends: Corps celebrates 59th anniversary of landing at Iwo Jima

Seventy-two days of naval gunfire. Eight hundred ships. Seventy-two thousand Marines of which 6,821 died. Twenty-seven Medals of Honor. One Island.On a map, Iwo Jima is nary a speck of volcanic dirt floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. For the Marines and sailors who fought the Japanese in the dawn of the year 1945, it was a 25-day hellish

MCLB Barstow's Marine of the Year awarded Lucas Sword

Winning the Marine of the Quarter or NCO of the Quarter titles establishes a Marine to be upholding the standards of the Marine Corps in such a way that peers and superiors have recognized them. Winning the Marine of the year is a step beyond. Holding the title of the Marine of the Year is putting a face on the commonly used term, "the best of the

FSD Barstow 'gets some' NBC training

It may seem that without "operational" units, albeit infantry or artillery, MCLB Barstow doesn't see much action. Marines from MCLB's Fleet Support Division are changing that. At about 7 a.m. Feb. 13, 13 motivated leathernecks at the MCLB Barstow Yermo Annex gathered in the brisk morning breeze at Building 551 in little more than "green on green."

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Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow