Stories

A U.S. Marine with Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron (HMM) 774, attached to Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Continuing Promise 2010 (CP10), provides aircrew support aboard a CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter, while transporting leaders to the closing ceremony of humanitarian assistance and subject-matter expert exchanges, in Bluefields, Nicaragua, Sept. 24, 2010. Service members and civilians are deployed in support of CP10 providing medical, dental, veterinary, engineering assistance and subject-matter exchanges to the Caribbean, Central and South America. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Samuel R. Beyers/Released) - A U.S. Marine with Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron (HMM) 774, attached to Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Continuing Promise 2010 (CP10), provides aircrew support aboard a CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter, while transporting leaders to the closing ceremony of humanitarian assistance and subject-matter expert exchanges, in Bluefields, Nicaragua, Sept. 24, 2010. Service members and civilians are deployed in support of CP10 providing medical, dental, veterinary, engineering assistance and subject-matter exchanges to the Caribbean, Central and South America. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Samuel R. Beyers/Released)

Staff Sgt. Leah G. Dorley, native of Hazel Park, Mich., and embarkation chief with Marine Air Control Squadron 2, simulates applying a needle thoracentesis to Sgt. Xavier W. Wethington, a simulated casualty and native of Miami, Fla., during a casualty assessment test of the Combat Life Saver training aboard the USS Iwo Jima, Sept. 24, 2010. Marines with MACS-2, Command Element of Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Continuing Promise 2010 participated in the five-day training while operating off the coast of Bluefields, Nicaragua, during their four-month deployment to the Caribbean, Central and South America. - Staff Sgt. Leah G. Dorley, native of Hazel Park, Mich., and embarkation chief with Marine Air Control Squadron 2, simulates applying a needle thoracentesis to Sgt. Xavier W. Wethington, a simulated casualty and native of Miami, Fla., during a casualty assessment test of the Combat Life Saver training aboard the USS Iwo Jima, Sept. 24, 2010. Marines with MACS-2, Command Element of Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Continuing Promise 2010 participated in the five-day training while operating off the coast of Bluefields, Nicaragua, during their four-month deployment to the Caribbean, Central and South America.

A student body consisting of one junior Nicaraguan lieutenant, a Nicaraguan navy petty officer and six soon-to-be Nicaraguan Marine Corps corporals listen attentively as Marines give them a class on leadership principles at Naval Base El Bluff, near Bluefields, Nicaragua, Sept. 19. Seven Marine non-commissioned officers and one staff NCO participated in a subject-matter expert exchange to give a leadership fundamentals course to eight members of the Nicaraguan navy and Marine Corps. - A student body consisting of one junior Nicaraguan lieutenant, a Nicaraguan navy petty officer and six soon-to-be Nicaraguan Marine Corps corporals listen attentively as Marines give them a class on leadership principles at Naval Base El Bluff, near Bluefields, Nicaragua, Sept. 19. Seven Marine non-commissioned officers and one staff NCO participated in a subject-matter expert exchange to give a leadership fundamentals course to eight members of the Nicaraguan navy and Marine Corps.