http://fromafghanistan.encblogs.com Fri, 08 May 2009 14:52:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hello all. Just wanted to let you know today is my last day at The Daily News. My husband has orders and we are moving to Annapolis, Maryland. All the content on this blog will stay, but from now on all information about Lejeune-based units in Afghanistan and Iraq information will ... http://fromafghanistan.encblogs.com/?p=835 Story by Lance Cpl. Brian Jones NOW ZAD, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan – Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force – Afghanistan conducted a major combat operation against insurgent forces in Now Zad, Helmand province, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, April 3. The Marines of Company L, 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment (Reinforced), ... http://fromafghanistan.encblogs.com/?p=831 More sad news from 3/8. Lance Cpl. Blaise A. Oleski, 22, of Holland Patent, NY, died April 8, while supporting combat operations in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. He was assigned to 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force. Oleski joined the Marine Corps May 16, 2006, and was ... http://fromafghanistan.encblogs.com/?p=830 Click here to read more on the 2/7 Marine who received the Navy Cross. Cpl. Brady Gustafson Also, I just started a new blog, called Lejeune deployed. The plan is to post the information from the units deployed to Iraq and elsewhere, so those families have a place to ... http://fromafghanistan.encblogs.com/?p=829 Military Police Company is training for their upcoming deployment with the MEB, and I was able to go out and see some of their training yesterday. They were working with Afghan role players, simulating a "meet and greet" with tribal leaders, as well as practicing what to do in an ... http://fromafghanistan.encblogs.com/?p=827 ASSOCIATED PRESS STORY A Marine will receive the Navy Cross on Friday for helping his comrades fight their way out of an ambush in Afghanistan despite sustaining a traumatic injury to his right leg, officials said Tuesday. Lance Cpl. Brady A. Gustafson, a machine gunner from Eagan, Minn., “enabled his fellow Marines ... http://fromafghanistan.encblogs.com/?p=826 Story and photos by Sgt. Juan Alfonso KANDAHAR AIR FIELD, Afghanistan – Despite having zero experience with fixed-wing aircraft, a team of helicopter mechanics diffused what could have been a potentially deadly situation involving an F/A-18E Super Hornet on Kandahar Air Field, Afghanistan, March 18, 2009. According to Staff Sgt. Jorge Minjares, ... http://fromafghanistan.encblogs.com/?p=822 I am a little late with this... I just saw it, but it was posted on March 22. Story and photos by Lance Cpl. Brian Jones GOLESTAN, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan – U.S. Marines are diligently working to create conditions for host nation security forces to take over while building the ... http://fromafghanistan.encblogs.com/?p=813 I was out at one of Camp Lejeune's Military Operations in Urban Terrain facilities today, talking to some Marines from Delta Company, 2nd Assault Amphibian Battalion who will deploy with 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade this spring to Afghanistan. If you'd like to read the story, click here. Watch the video ... http://fromafghanistan.encblogs.com/?p=812 Two Camp Lejeune Marine corporals were killed Sunday in combat in Afghanistan, according to a Marine Corps press release. Anthony L. Williams, 21, of Oxford, Pa., and Michael W. Ouellette, 28, of Manchester, N.H., died while supporting combat operations in Helmand province, according to the release. The Marines were assigned to ... http://fromafghanistan.encblogs.com/?p=811