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 Marine Corps News: Devil Doc receives Silver Star with Valor
 Petty Officer 3rd Class Todd Angell, USN a native of Bethel, CT received the Silver Star; one of the nation’s highest military awards for valor. For his heroism in Afghanistan as a FMF Corpsman with Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division from Camp Lejeune, NC. Corporal Brandon Rumbaugh, USMC a close friend of Todd Angell’s and a Marine and now double amputee whose life was saved in Afghanistan by Doc Angell; pinned PO3 Todd Angell with the Silver Star Medal on 27 APRIL during the awards ceremony.
PO3 Todd Angell, USN said; “One of the hardest casualties I worked on was Rumbaugh; he was one of the most unstable casualties I had. He was actually less stable than a kid I treated with a gunshot wound to the head.” “I did everything I could, but I didn’t know if it was enough. Having him pin me meant the world to me. Just to have Rumbaugh alive to pin me, that’s worth more than any Silver Star or any medal.”
Doc Angell risked his life on many occasions to save others because he said, “If that means being hurt on the way, so be it.”
Oct. 12, 2010, Angell took a Marine fire team and unknowingly ran more than 500 meters through an IED hotspot to provide immediate care for Marines injured by IEDs, rather than wait for vehicles to navigate the difficult terrain in the area. Doc Angell said; “I just grabbed my gear and just ran. It was a long run, probably the longest run of my life. I was broke off by the time I got up there.”
Nov. 8, 2010, involved the treatment of an Afghan National Army soldier who stepped on an IED. Doc Angell was following a Marine handling a minesweeper to get to the wounded soldier when the Marine struck an IED. Doc Angell assessed the Marine’s injury before moving toward the soldier. Doc then applied tourniquets to both amputated legs, administered intravenous fluids and stabilized the Afghan Soldier. While treating the Afghan Soldier an explosive ordnance disposal Marine working on site also struck an IED; who receiving minor injuries.
If that were not enough; a firefight broke out and a local resident was shot in the head. Doc Angell treated the civilian promptly and saved his life.
Dec. 20, 2010, During a firefight PO3 Todd Angell proved his Marine Combat skills; by killing two insurgents at distances up to 400 meters. As the firefight continued Doc Angell also acted as the assistant mortar gunner. By the end of the day, he had fired 17 mortar rounds at enemy positions. |
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Posted by SwitzerG on Saturday, May 19, 2012 @ 02:02:32 Eastern Daylight Time (2 reads)
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Marine Corps News: Navajo Code Talker Samuel Tso
 Samuel Tso 89, of Lukachukai, Arizona, passed away Wednesday 10 May 2012 in the evening with family members beside him at San Juan Regional Medical Center in Farmington, New Mexico.
Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly has ordered the Navajo Nation flag to be flown at half staff beginning May 10th, through sundown May 14th, in honor Marine Code Talker Samuel Tso for his service in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II and to the Navajo Nation.
Code Talker Marine Tso was born on June 22, 1922, at Black Mountain near Many Farms, Arizona, However, he frequently told stories about how he made up his birth date to get a job.
Samuel Tso served in the U.S. Marine Corps with the 5th Marine Division from February 13, 1943 to March 29, 1946. Samuel Tso was one of the Marines who captured Iwo Jima. PFC Tso highly decorated Marine, was awarded the Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal, the Victory Medal of World War II, the USMC Good Conduct Medal and the National Defense Service Medal.
Code Talker Tso was Zuni Tachiinii and born for Nakai Dine'e.
Family members are quick to point out that Marine Tso was not one of the original 29 Navajo Code Talkers. Marine Tso worked hard to establish the yet to be completed Navajo Code Talkers Museum and Veterans' Project so that Navajo people and all Americans will remember forever the vast contributions the Code Talkers made during World War II.
Semper Fidelis Marine Tso, Code Talker
Funeral services are pending with Desert View Funeral Home in Shiprock, New Mexico. |
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Posted by SwitzerG on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 @ 04:41:12 Eastern Daylight Time (6 reads)
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Marine Corps News: Marine Infantry Officers Course for Women
The Marine Corps will soon allow Marine Women to attend its School of Infantry, as part of an effort to determine how to expand the role of Marine Women in the Corps.
 Gen. Joseph Dunford, Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps, said that Marine Woman Officers volunteers are being sau out to attend the Infantry Officer Course at Marine Corps Base Quantico.
Gen. Dunford said the Marine Corps is expected to release a Corps wide message soon about expanding careers and training opportunities for Marine Women. The message will include information about Marine Women Officers attending the Infantry Officers Course. Marine Infantry Officers typically attend the 10-week course after completing The Basic School.
The Marine Corps requested that Congress approve an exception to policy that would allow female company-grade officers and female staff noncommissioned officers who already hold certain military occupational specialties, such as communications, to be assigned to about 400 corresponding jobs with ground combat element units at the battalion level. The units include Artillery, Tanks, Amphibious Trac, Low Altitude Air Defense, Combat Assault and Combat Engineers, but not Infantry.
 Marine Women will be considered for those positions starting in May. The Infantry Officer Course should include those Marine Women Officers who command Female Engagement Teams (FET).
Gen. Dunford included there is a plan to evaluate Male and Female Marines against new physical fitness standards that are currently being developed. The information from all the new initiatives will be in his fiscal report later this year. |
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Posted by SwitzerG on Friday, May 11, 2012 @ 20:03:48 Eastern Daylight Time (4 reads)
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Marine Corps News: The Break Down of Military Might
 16 APRIL 2012 during the Armforces Committee Hearing; the Chiefs of Marine and Naval Services gave a bleak outlook about continued global strife and the services ability to respond with smaller, older forces; however, they said they will do their best.
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert said “The maritime forces are the first responders and that’s the bottom line,” “When underway, we’re prepared to do whatever it will take to make things happen and make the outcome correct.”
Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Amos, said that in spite of the Marine Corps down sizing 20,000 troops over the next six years, a shrinking, aging Navy and Coast Guard fleets, and a world “that doesn’t seem to be getting any nicer or more peaceful.”
 Gen. Amos predicted the coming two decades would bring resource wars, population growth and threats from terror groups with access to advanced weapons. The potential threat from an expanding Chinese military went unmentioned, but both Gen. Amos and Adm. Greenert; but reaffirmed the importance of the Obama administration’s strategic pivot to the Western Pacific.
Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Robert Papp, with an even more pessimistic outlook said his service now must leave important missions untended for a lack of ships. With the increased oil exploration in the Arctic this summer means the Coast Guard must send a new National Security Cutter to patrol off Alaska’s north slope, and that means it won’t be able to intercept smugglers transporting drugs in the Eastern Pacific.
The Coast Guard and the other services “are behind the power curve” in getting ready to operate in a warmer, more crowded Arctic. Adm. Papp warned, Our services must catch up with developments that are happening whether the government is ready or not: Oil giant Shell plans to send 33 ships and about 600 people to drill for oil this summer in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas.
The grim outlook argued by the Cheifs of Marine and Naval Services reflected the large defense destabilization, which will surrender $487 billion in projected budget in the next decade, and another $500 billion in reductions this coming January.
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Posted by SwitzerG on Friday, May 11, 2012 @ 11:47:51 Eastern Daylight Time (10 reads)
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