Stories - Mar 2006

Maintenance Center Barstow?s Cost Work Center 729 is repairing a shipment of 51 M198 Howitzers for the Army this year. Chris Benavidez, artillery repairman of CWC 729, attaches a variable recoil rod to the seventh Howitzer MCB personnel have worked on. - Maintenance Center Barstow?s Cost Work Center 729 is repairing a shipment of 51 M198 Howitzers for the Army this year. Chris Benavidez, artillery repairman of CWC 729, attaches a variable recoil rod to the seventh Howitzer MCB personnel have worked on.

Army M198s visit MCB for repair, maintenance

The Army's M198 Howitzers have always been repaired at Anniston Army Depot, Ala.; until now that is. This year, Maintenance Center Barstow is conducting inspections and repairs on 51 of the Army's M198s for the first time. The M198s came to MCB from several active duty units at Fort Bragg, N.C., for Inspection, Repair Only As Necessary, or IROAN,

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Marines run 40-mile race to raise funds for military

Ten Marines and five Sailors participated in the Association of the United States Army's 40-mile relay race from the National Training Center Fort Irwin to the Barstow Veteran's Home Saturday. The 11th annual relay-race event was a grueling race that tested both mental and physical ability. "I'm not gonna lie, but those hills that you have to run

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Mounted Color Guard enlists wild horses

It started nearly 20 years ago, when a palomino horse began his journey from the Black Rock Desert in Nevada to Barstow, Calif., to become a member of the Marine Corps Mounted Color Guard. Okinawa, the first of many horses from the Bureau of Land Management, would start a long relationship between the BLM and the MCMCG when the horse’s disposition

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MCLB XO inspects Lancaster JROTC unit

As the platoons form on an early Tuesday morning, a Marine lieutenant colonel stands up and walks towards the first platoon, time on deck is 9:30 a.m. The Marine comes to attention in front of the first member of the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps; the student salutes and continues on to say his rank and name. Then the Marine starts to

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Pfc. Lance Akimseu, travel clerk for the base adjutant?s office, judges a student?s science project during the Barstow Unified School District Science Fair held at the Barstow Community College gymnasium March 9, which determined the student?s who will go on to regionals. - Pfc. Lance Akimseu, travel clerk for the base adjutant?s office, judges a student?s science project during the Barstow Unified School District Science Fair held at the Barstow Community College gymnasium March 9, which determined the student?s who will go on to regionals.

MCLB personnel judge Barstow science projects

Service members and employees of Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow judged some exceptional science projects for the Barstow Unified School District Science Fair March 9 at Barstow Community College's gymnasium. The fair is an annual event that is participated in by students who attend all schools within the Barstow area, said Danielle King,

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MCLB Barstow first to convert from military to civilian police force

Officer Larry Reliford, Marine Corps Police Department, hands a document back to a passenger in a vehicle attempting to come aboard base while Sgt. Michael Diaz, watch commander, observes Reliford’s job proficiency and conduct. MCLB is in the process of turning over the base security duties to civilian officers of the MCPD who began working here

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MCLB Barstow's Provost Marshal has something to share

In December 1992, a new private first class came to MCLB Barstow for Marine on-the-job-training to learn how to be a supply warehouseman. Now, that private first class, is serving Barstow as an officer and the base Provost Marshal. Capt. Rodrigo Cantu began his career at MCLB Barstow and after 14 years, he is back. The Texas native joined the

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MCB's "Super Blast" facility open for business

In its never ending quest to provide the best service possible to its customers, Maintenance Center Barstow continues to upgrade its facilities to meet its customers' needs in the most efficient and expeditious manner possible.During the past two years, MCB has opened a new paint and coatings facility, a new welding shop and now a new blasting

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Marsha McClaine, heavy mobile equipment repairer, tightens water and air hoses on a Light Armored Vehicle power pack, which is an engine and transmission combined. - Marsha McClaine, heavy mobile equipment repairer, tightens water and air hoses on a Light Armored Vehicle power pack, which is an engine and transmission combined.

CWC 711 keeps the Corps' vehicles running

Whether it is the quiet purr of a high performance million dollar luxury vehicle, the roar of a muscular motorcycle or the rumble of a Light Armored Vehicle, the sound of a finely tuned engine is something that both men and women enjoy hearing. Producing such engines is the job of Maintenance Center Barstow's Cost Work Center 711, the engine shop.

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