Search results
Results from the Health.Zone Content Network
The Marine Corps Installations Command ( MCICOM) was created on October 1, 2011 to oversee U.S. Marine Corps installations (including the installations' regional commanders) through direct oversight, policy creation and coordination, and resource prioritization. MCICOM is currently commanded by Major General David W. Maxwell.
Evergreen Marine Corporation ( Chinese: 長榮海運; pinyin: Chángróng Hǎiyùn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tióng-êng Hái-ūn) is a Taiwanese container transportation and shipping company that is headquartered in Luzhu District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan. [5] With over 150 container ships, it is part of the Evergreen Group conglomerate of transportation ...
Oscar Palmer Austin (January 15, 1948 – February 23, 1969) was a United States Marine who posthumously received his nation's highest military honor — the Medal of Honor — for heroism and sacrifice of his own life in Vietnam in February 1969. On February 12, 1969, Austin's observation post near Da Nang was attacked by a large North ...
Frank E. Petersen Jr. USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG-121) is an Arleigh Burke -class Flight IIA guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy, the 71st overall for the class. The ship was named for United States Marine Corps Lieutenant General Frank E. Petersen Jr. [6] the first African-American Marine Corps aviator [7] and the first ...
USS Ponce (AFSB(I)-15) (formerly LPD-15) (/ ˈ p ɒ n s eɪ / PON-say), was an Austin-class amphibious transport dock, formerly in service with the United States Navy.She has been the only ship of the Navy named for Ponce in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, which in turn was named after the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León, the first governor of Puerto Rico and the European discoverer of ...
Current. commander. Captain S.M. Hussey, MC, USN. 1st Medical Battalion is a unit of the United States Marine Corps operated by the United States Navy that provides expeditionary Health Service Support to Marine Corps forces forward deployed to operations or humanitarian missions. The unit is based out of Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton and ...
Sasebo was a popular liberty port for navy personnel. In September 1945, the U.S. Marine Corps ' Fifth Division landed at Sasebo, and in June 1946, U.S. Fleet Activities Sasebo was established. When war broke out in Korea three years later, Sasebo became the main launching point for the United Nations and the U.S. Forces.
2 × CH-53E Super Stallions. or 4 × UH-1Y Venoms/AH-1J SeaCobras. or 4 × CH-46 Sea Knights. or 2 × MV-22 Ospreys. or 1 × AV-8B Harrier. USS Anchorage (LPD-23) is a San Antonio -class amphibious transport dock and the second ship of the United States Navy to be namesake of the U.S. city of Anchorage, Alaska .