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10703891. Website. camplejeuneglobe .com. The Globe is a weekly newspaper published for the Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune - (pronounced LUH JERN by some) community. In addition to its military staff and correspondents, The Globe carries a civilian bureau, employed by Fayetteville Publishing. The Globe has been the official publication of ...
Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune [1] ( / ləˈʒɜːrn / lə-ZHURN or / ləˈʒuːn / lə-ZHOON) [2] [3] is a 246-square-mile (640 km 2) [4] United States military training facility in Jacksonville, North Carolina. Its 14 miles (23 km) of beaches make the base a major area for amphibious assault training, and its location between two deep-water ...
The Camp Lejeune water contamination problem occurred at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, North Carolina, from 1953 to 1987. [ 1 ] During that time, United States Marine Corps (USMC) personnel and families at the base — as well as many international, particularly British, [ 2 ] assignees — bathed in and ingested tap water ...
Military personnel stationed at Camp Lejeune from 1975 to 1985 had at least a 20% higher risk for a number of cancers than those stationed elsewhere, federal health officials said Wednesday in a ...
McClure had served at Camp Lejeune, a sprawling Marine Corps training facility in North Carolina, where up to 1 million people may have been exposed to a drinking water supply contaminated with ...
Ensminger, a former Marine, spends hours every day researching the contamination of drinking water at Camp Lejeune. Needing answers For years, Ensminger didn’t know what caused Janey’s death.
Jerry Ensminger has now spent more time fighting for people sickened by contaminated water at Camp Lejeune than he spent in the U.S. Marine Corps.. Ensminger’s daughter Janey, who had lived at ...
The ground combat element (GCE) consists of those combat and combat support units whose primary mission is to, (1) engage with and destroy the enemy by fire and/or maneuver, and/or shock effect, performed by infantry, field artillery, and tank units, (2) provide close battlefield support to other GCE units by assault amphibian, combat assault, light armored reconnaissance, reconnaissance, and ...