Deadline: OVERSEAS HOLIDAY MAIL 2008
November 2, 2008 at 01:35
by US Military News
The 2008 Christmas holiday mailing deadlines have been announced. If you want your cards, letters, and packages to arrive to a military member overseas, or deployed on a Navy ship by Christmas, be sure to mail them by the following dates:
For military mail addressed to APO/FPO AE zips 090-098 (except 093); AA zips 340; and AP zips 962-966:
* Express Mail: Dec. 18
* First-Class Mail (letters/cards and priority mail): Dec. 11
* Parcel Airlift Mail: Dec. 4
* Parcel Post: Nov. 13
For military mail addressed to APO/FPO AE ZIP 093:
* Express mail Military Service: N/A
* First-Class Letters/Cards/Priority Mail: Dec. 4
* Parcel Airlift Mail: Dec. 1
* Space Available Mail: Nov. 21
* Parcel Post: Nov. 13
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Lance Cpl. Stacy Ann Dryden: Remembered for Her Life and Service
October 31, 2008 at 01:59
by US Military News
Service members with 1st Maintenance Battalion (Reinforced), 1st Marine Logistics Group, joined together to honor one of their fallen Marines during a memorial service on Oct. 27, 2008. Lance Cpl. Stacy Ann Dryden, 22, from North Canton, Ohio, was serving in Iraq as a preservation, packaging and packing specialist when she died, Oct. 19, from a non-combat related incident in al Anbar province, Iraq.
Date Taken: October 27th, 2008
Location: AT-TAQADDUM, Iraq
Photo & Story by: Cpl. Tyler Barstow
1st Marine Logistic Group Public Affairs
Read Full Story Here: Service Members Gather to Honor Fallen
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Combat Logistics Marines Create New View of Fallujah
October 30, 2008 at 09:49
by US Military News
Staff Sgt. Bryan Spencer, Combat Logistics Battalion 5 Engineer Company operations platoon sergeant, briefs heavy equipment operators and combat engineers on the day's mission to level approximately 1,000 meters of berm along Wolverine Way, a road stretching from Camp Baharia to the outskirts of Fallujah, Iraq, Oct. 18, 2008. The Marines demolished five miles of berm along the road during about a week as part of a larger project to demilitarize Fallujah and turn control of the Fallujah area to Iraqi government control.
Date Taken: October 18th, 2008
Location: Fallujah, Iraq
Photo and Story by: Cpl. Daniel Angel
I Marine Expeditionary Force (Fwd)
Read Full Story Here: Combat Logistics Marines Create New View of Fallujah
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Vet Jobs: Experience Onboard
October 30, 2008 at 02:25
by US Military News
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