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26th MEU(SOC) completes first phase of Destined Glory

Marines and Sailors from the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) completed the first phase of NATO's Exercise Destined Glory 2000 Oct. 18, after conducting several amphibious assaults and training evolutions throughout Turkey. Destined Glory, a multi-national exercise involving eight countries, is designed to improve joint

USS Saipan displays Navy/Marine Corps teamwork

Since the establishment of the Continental Navy and Continental Marines during the Revolutionary War, the two services have worked and fought together as a team.Their spirit of commitment to "sacrifice for country" is still alive today, especially aboard the Norfolk-based amphibious assault ship USS SAIPAN (LHA 2).Currently deployed in the

Boatswain's Mates grunts of the sea

Given the salary of his current rank, BM3 Scott Wold would have to work well over 1,000 years to pay off the ship he is sometimes responsible for driving. Wold is one of 70 Boatswain's Mates aboard USS Saipan, and like aboard most Naval ships, this group of Sailors are responsible for not just steering the vessel, but ensuring its overall upkeep,

A look at the 26th MEU(SOC)''s Navy/Marine Corps Team

USS Saipan is not the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable)'s only partner in the nation's premiere Navy/Marine Corps Team.The ship is one of three Naval vessels within Amphibious Squadron (PHIBRON) Four, the unit that maintains tactical control of those Navy counterparts that work alongside the 26th MEU(SOC).The smallest ship

MSSG-26 conducts first major training evolution during deployment

It could mean performing oral surgery in the middle of a weapons range, or purifying enough water to fill 50 bathtubs a day. When it comes to keeping one of America's most deployed forces equipped, fed, housed and healthy, the jobs of Marines and Sailors from Marine Expeditionary Unit Service Support Group 26 can mean having to do anything. "Like

I'm not in Elgin, S.C. anymore

In the dozen or so years I spent as a child exploring the woods of my small Southern town of Elgin, S.C., I never had to worry about finding a mine that could sever my legs, blind my eyes or steal my life. Maybe that explains my personal apathy when the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) sent me to a class before our

26th MEU(SOC), USS Austin conduct historic training with Croatian military

One of the oldest amphibious warships in the U.S. Navy and the unit that made history last year when they became the first U.S. peacekeeping force to move into Kosovo, completed the first ever U.S./Croatian bilateral military training exercise Sept. 29. The four-day exercise gave members of the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations

International training teaches service members 'a soldier is a soldier'

Croatia's Peruca Dam says a lot about the country where a once nonexistent military, armed with inadequate hunting rifles, battled their way to independence through Europe's 4th largest military. Even before the war began in 1991, the Yugoslav Army warned that any aggressive action by Croatia would prompt the superior force to destroy the dam,

Mechanized Marines as strong as elephants

When Captain Darrel Benfield and his Marines come to a fight, they come with weapons weighing more than a high school football stadium full of elephants. The Marines looked like those elephants Sept. 15, when Benfield commanded a mechanized raid that charged against the Tunisian Military's mechanical assets. The raid was a training package for both

Atlas Hinge uses friendly competition to teach valuable combat lessons

The 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) introduced themselves to their Tunisian allies in Marine Corps fashion: they attacked them. However, the attack was more than welcomed by the Tunisian Military; it was invited. An amphibious assault against the Tunisian forces marked the beginning of Exercise Atlas Hinge, a bilateral

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