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2003 March 10	Kitty Hawk marks 45 days at sea with steel-beach picnic
Click for article... ABOARD THE USS KITTY HAWK - Instead of aircraft launching off the flight deck Saturday, sailors on the USS Kitty Hawk drove golf balls into the Persian Gulf.
Features: Aircraft in the background, Seaman Belony Omeus outruns Seaman Recruit David Phillips for a touchdown on the USS Kitty Hawk during a steel-beach picnic as the Yokosuka, Japan-based aircraft carrier is underway in the northern Persian Gulf.
2003 March 9	Mail troubles keep Persian Gulf troops, loved ones from staying connected
Click for article... CAMP UDAIRI, Kuwait - The old saying about mail being delivered through rain, sleet and dark of night is conspicuous for the absence of another obstacle: war.
Features: Camp Udairi and Camp New York
2003 March 6	Troops split on issue of embedding journalists
Click for article... CAMP VIRGINIA, Kuwait - Troops in the field are about to get some new comrades. But the newbies will be toting microphones and cameras, not rifles and rocket launchers.
Features: 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines, 130th Engineer Brigade, 8th Engineer Support Battalion
2003 March 5	Mideast notebook: For pilots, it's like old home week at Udairi
Click for article... CAMP UDAIRI, Kuwait - Around Camp Udairi, the Army helicopter hub in Kuwait, there's a lot of handshaking and backslapping going on. Almost everyone is connected with the extended family of Army aviation.
Features: Camp Virginia
2003 March 1	Mideast Notebook: All the finer things - food, films, showers
Click for article... Kuwait - The most popular movie for troops in Kuwait is "Three Kings," about American soldiers whose quest for stolen gold eventually gets them caught up in the politics of the first Gulf War.
Features: 147th Maintenance Company
2003 February 25	Building bridges over troubled times
Click for article... CAMP PELELIEU, Kuwait - As the Marines work, they bark out orders in a language it seems only they understand.
Features: Company A, a unit of regulars out of Camp Lejeune, Company B, 8th Engineer Support Battalion
2003 February 25	Manmade pond in Kuwait helps test boats
Click for article... CAMP PELELIEU, Kuwait - It could be a mirage: a dozen green and tan Marine boats, V-shaped hulls resting on trailer beds in the middle of the desert.
2003 February 22	Hanau engineers equiped for missions great, small
Click for article... CAMP VIRGINIA, Kuwait - After a few weeks of mix-and-match efforts to put together full units, combat engineer battalions based out of Germany are getting all their heavy pieces together.
Features: 11th Aviation Regiment
2003 February 20	Tarawa doubles as backup hospital ship
Click for article... ABOARD THE USS TARAWA - The Navy's first-response medical vessel for Marines in the Persian Gulf just might be one without a giant red cross painted on the hull.
Features: Typically, this ship operates at the tip of the spear, 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit
2003 February 20	Deployment means you can't pack light
Click for article... ABOARD USS TARAWA - Marine Cpl. Jeffery Knipe looked over the list of gear he had to fit into his pack. Sleeping bag, a chemical suit, two pairs of desert uniforms and spare boots were just a sample of the more than two-dozen items that weigh Marines down.
Features: 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit
2003 February 19	Marines turn to battle-tested for advice
Click for article... ABOARD USS TARAWA - Marine Sgt. Erick Jones has spent the last six months thinking about Iraq.
Features: 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit
2003 February 17	Marines run desert decon drills
Click for article... CAMP TARAWA, Kuwait - As the echo of live-fire exercises rumbles across the desert, mobile Marine Corps decontamination units are practicing for a job none of them hopes to do.
Features: 1st FSSG, Command Support Service Battalions 10 and 12, 1st Force Service Support Group, Nuclear, Biological and Chemical weapons decon teams from Camp Pendleton
2003 February 16	Mideast Notebook: Families wait for news
Click for article... KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait - I think I understand why the Pentagon decided Operation Desert Storm was a fearsome enough name for a war.
2003 February 14	Marines of the 15th MEU land in Kuwait
Click for article... ABOARD THE USS TARAWA - Another weapon in the U.S. military's arsenal offloaded Wednesday in Kuwait.
Features: 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit
2003 February 9	USS Kitty Hawk sent to Persian Gulf
Click for article... YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan
2003 February 6	Sandstorms curtail Kuwait exercises
Click for article... UDAIRI RANGE, Kuwait - Fierce, unpredictable sandstorms are beginning to wreak havoc on desert training schedules for U.S. troops.
Features: 1st Tank Battalion, 1st Marine Division, also see photo gallery link to the left
2003 February 4	Marines in Kuwait expect to move on
Click for article... LIVING SUPPORT AREA 7, Kuwaiti desert - Marine Corps tank commander Sgt. Jason Melville knows his new outpost is only a way station. He expects to move to a new neighborhood.
Features: LSA-7 (7th Marines, features photos of 29 Palms' Marines and 3/4 men)

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