1st Marine Division Combat Camera developed a number of posters to promote the Protect What You Earned campaign as championed by Gen. Robert Neller, commandant of the Marine Corps, to get Marines talking about thoughtful decision-making. The commandant’s vision is to preserve the Corps’ combat readiness by ensuring individual Marines succeed in their careers and personal lives. - 1st Marine Division Combat Camera developed a number of posters to promote the Protect What You Earned campaign as championed by Gen. Robert Neller, commandant of the Marine Corps, to get Marines talking about thoughtful decision-making. The commandant’s vision is to preserve the Corps’ combat readiness by ensuring individual Marines succeed in their careers and personal lives.
Sergeant Edwin Lopez, a rifleman with 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, poses for a portrait aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., April 7, 2016. Lopez said the Marine Corps provided the 25-year-old, San Marcos native to become a successful leader within the infantry community, deploying four separate times to places such as Okinawa and Afghanistan. - Sergeant Edwin Lopez, a rifleman with 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, poses for a portrait aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., April 7, 2016. Lopez said the Marine Corps provided the 25-year-old, San Marcos native to become a successful leader within the infantry community, deploying four separate times to places such as Okinawa and Afghanistan.
Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Robert Park, a combat trauma management instructor with the 1st Marine Division Surgeon’s Office, poses for a portrait aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., April 7, 2016. Park teaches Sailors and Marines combat lifesaving skills and was recently selected as the I Marine Expeditionary Force Junior Sailor of the Year. - Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Robert Park, a combat trauma management instructor with the 1st Marine Division Surgeon’s Office, poses for a portrait aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., April 7, 2016. Park teaches Sailors and Marines combat lifesaving skills and was recently selected as the I Marine Expeditionary Force Junior Sailor of the Year.
Corporal Stephen Karavolos, a motor transport operator, is currently deployed to Afghanistan with the Georgian Liaison Team for Regimental Combat Team 7, Regional Command Southwest. Karavolos currently holds many different billets. He is the unit's convoy commander, motor transport chief and operations chief, all billets typically held by officers or staff noncommissioned officer. - Corporal Stephen Karavolos, a motor transport operator, is currently deployed to Afghanistan with the Georgian Liaison Team for Regimental Combat Team 7, Regional Command Southwest. Karavolos currently holds many different billets. He is the unit's convoy commander, motor transport chief and operations chief, all billets typically held by officers or staff noncommissioned officer.
Corporal Kenneth Nageotte, a chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear specialist with Regimental Combat Team 7 and native of Redlands, Calif., served on Marine Security Guard duty in Latvia and Egypt, and now plans to exit the Marine Corps to get his degree and go back to Latvia as a civilian security expert. “He embodies our core values and truly lives his life as Marines should,†said Chief Warrant Officer 3 William Orr, the chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear defense officer with RCT-7. "He is aware of what the title he's earned represents, and he approaches every day as if he were trying to earn that title, over and over again. Nageotte will likely transition back to the civilian sector after his obligation is complete, but he will continue to represent our Corps well into the future, regardless of where he may find himself." - Corporal Kenneth Nageotte, a chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear specialist with Regimental Combat Team 7 and native of Redlands, Calif., served on Marine Security Guard duty in Latvia and Egypt, and now plans to exit the Marine Corps to get his degree and go back to Latvia as a civilian security expert. “He embodies our core values and truly lives his life as Marines should,†said Chief Warrant Officer 3 William Orr, the chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear defense officer with RCT-7. "He is aware of what the title he's earned represents, and he approaches every day as if he were trying to earn that title, over and over again. Nageotte will likely transition back to the civilian sector after his obligation is complete, but he will continue to represent our Corps well into the future, regardless of where he may find himself."
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Petty Officer 1st Class Nathan Hardin, an independent duty corpsman serving with 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, reunites with his family after returning home Sept. 17, 2012, from a deployment to Afghanistan. Hardin, an Escondido, Calif., native, treated Marines at the battalion aid station, a medical component within 2nd Bn., 5th Marines’ Headquarters and Service Company. More than 1,100 Marines and sailors serving with the battalion returned from a seven-month deployment to northern Helmand province, Afghanistan - Petty Officer 1st Class Nathan Hardin, an independent duty corpsman serving with 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, reunites with his family after returning home Sept. 17, 2012, from a deployment to Afghanistan. Hardin, an Escondido, Calif., native, treated Marines at the battalion aid station, a medical component within 2nd Bn., 5th Marines’ Headquarters and Service Company. More than 1,100 Marines and sailors serving with the battalion returned from a seven-month deployment to northern Helmand province, Afghanistan
Maj. Gen. Ronald Bailey, the commanding general of 1st Marine Division, presents an award to 1st Lt. Scott A. Whipple, a platoon commander with Hotel Company, 3rd Assault Amphibious Battalion, and wife Meera Whipple, July 18. Whipple received the award for saving an officer when he swam more than 400 meters in rough water from the shoreline to pull a drowning officer to safety. (U.S. Marines Corps photo by Pfc. Timothy J. Lenzo) - Maj. Gen. Ronald Bailey, the commanding general of 1st Marine Division, presents an award to 1st Lt. Scott A. Whipple, a platoon commander with Hotel Company, 3rd Assault Amphibious Battalion, and wife Meera Whipple, July 18. Whipple received the award for saving an officer when he swam more than 400 meters in rough water from the shoreline to pull a drowning officer to safety. (U.S. Marines Corps photo by Pfc. Timothy J. Lenzo)