Submitted: Feb 06, 2009

By 1st Lt. Patrick Boyce --- DoD
MCB QUANTICO, Va. (Jan. 28) -- Marine Corps Combat Development Command presented a Period of Military Education at Little Hall on Jan. 28 for Marines anticipating potential future deployments away from the desert flats of Iraq to the lofty jagged peaks of Afghanistan. The PME consisted of a panel discussion concerning the strategic challenges of...
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Submitted: Feb 06, 2009

By 1st Lt. Patrick Boyce --- DoD
MCB QUANTICO, Va. (Jan. 28) -- Marine Corps Combat Development Command presented a Period of Military Education at Little Hall on Jan. 28 for Marines anticipating potential future deployments away from the desert flats of Iraq to the lofty jagged peaks of Afghanistan. The PME consisted of a panel discussion concerning the strategic challenges of...
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Submitted: Feb 06, 2009

By 1st Lt. Patrick Boyce --- Personality
MCB QUANTICO, Va. -- His eyes are reduced to narrow black slits, his voice crackles like he’s been smoking a pack of Marlboro Reds since being in utero. Slowly he extends his empty hand and points his finger like the barrel of a gun and assorted punks recoil. ‘‘Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn’t have messed...
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Submitted: Feb 06, 2009

By 1st Lt. Patrick Boyce --- Personality
MCB QUANTICO, Va. -- His eyes are reduced to narrow black slits, his voice crackles like he’s been smoking a pack of Marlboro Reds since being in utero. Slowly he extends his empty hand and points his finger like the barrel of a gun and assorted punks recoil. ‘‘Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn’t have messed...
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Submitted: Nov 07, 2008

By 1st Lt. Patrick Boyce --- Environment
MCB QUANTICO, Va. (Nov. 3) -- It does not take a set of eagle eyes to see that the 95 square miles of Marine Corps Base Quantico is fairly flush with native wildlife, whether it be the foxes, the bald eagles, the deer or the Copperheads. However, one non-native species has more recently taken to calling Quantico its home — feral cats. ‘‘We do not...
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Submitted: Nov 01, 2008

By 1st Lt. Patrick Boyce --- Marine Corps
MCB QUANTICO, Va. -- All Marines are unified, no matter their personal background or military occupational specialty, by the uniform they wear. That uniform is instantly recognizable worldwide and remains the most prominent visual indicator of Marine Corps history and tradition. To help celebrate the long and honored history of the Marine Corps...
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Submitted: Oct 31, 2008

By 1st Lt. Patrick Boyce --- Personality
ARLINGTON, Va. (Oct. 26) -- While the purpose of 33rd Marine Corps Marathon may have been to promote a healthy and active lifestyle, adrenaline and speed alone were not the only things making hearts pound during the wheelchair and hand-cycle portion of the race. For one special couple, the race will always signify a bit more than the simple love...
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Submitted: Oct 17, 2008

By 1st Lt. Patrick Boyce --- Marine Corps
MCB QUANTICO, Va. (Oct 14) -- Marines from Delta Company, 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, a reserve unit based at Camp Upshur here, reunited with their loved ones at a special homecoming reception at Barnett Field here Tuesday, October 14. The Marines deployed to western Al Anbar Province in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from...
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Submitted: Oct 11, 2008

By 1st Lt. Patrick Boyce --- Marine Corps
MCB QUANTICO, Va. -- Concerning robots, as one of the taglines of the 2007 movie ‘‘Transformers” stated, ‘‘Some will come to defend us, most will come to destroy us,” so unless there was actually a prototype of Megatron or the Terminator robot hidden in some off-limits tent, most of the robots displayed at the Modern Day Marines Exposition, held...
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Submitted: Sep 28, 2008

By 1st Lt. Patrick Boyce --- Environment
MCB QUANTICO, Va. -- In both my personal and professional military life I have always considered myself a fairly laid-back guy.; however, there is one item in particular that I take as seriously as a heart attack, and it never fails to make me click off safe when I see others demonstrate the lack thereof; namely being environmentally conscious. ...
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Submitted: Sep 06, 2008

By 1st Lt. Patrick Boyce --- Quantico
MCB QUANTICO, Va. (Aug. 28) -- Safety for Marines operating motor vehicles is no laughing matter, but at the Marine Corps Combat Development Command Auditorium Aug. 28-29, Cajun stand-up comedian and traffic safety expert Steve Verret, who runs the Improv Comedy Traffic School in Carlsbad, Calif., had Marines and civilians laughing and applauding...
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Submitted: Aug 15, 2008

By 1st Lt. Patrick Boyce --- Personality
MCB QUANTICO, Va. (Aug. 8) -- It’s not just called the Marine Corps; it’s also called the Marine Corps family. Marines are supposed to watch each other’s backs like family, so what better feeling than to know that it actually is your own brother or sister providing that security? They say good things come in threes, so now, representing a third...
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Submitted: Aug 13, 2008

By 1st Lt. Patrick Boyce --- Training and Education
MCB QUANTICO, Va. (Aug 1) -- Pre-dawn thunderheads rumbled with forks of lighting and fast sheets of rain before giving way to blazing sunshine over Liberia’s capital city of Monrovia ... well, the notional capital anyway, as much as Marine Corps Base Quantico’s own Military Operations on Urban Terrain facility can replicate the conditions of a...
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Submitted: Aug 08, 2008

By 1st Lt. Patrick Boyce --- Marine Corps
MCB QUANTICO, Va. (Aug. 5) -- Fewer than 00.000008 percent of all active-duty Marines ever attain the three-star rank of lieutenant general, said Gen. James F. Amos, assistant commandant of the Marine Corps, but that’s exactly what Lt. Gen. George J. Flynn achieved August 5th at Harry Lee Hall here, officially assuming the position as the...
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Submitted: Jul 30, 2008

By 1st Lt. Patrick Boyce --- Marine Corps
MCB QUANTICO, Va. -- As the first decade of the 21st Century draws to a close, the United States faces a new myriad of threats and challenges in which both the landscape and operating environment of the world continues to undergo dynamic and dramatic upheavals, claims Marine Corps Vision and Strategy 2025. How the Marine Corps can best be employed...
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Submitted: Jul 19, 2008

By 1st Lt. Patrick Boyce --- Training and Education
MCB QUANTICO, Va. (July 9) -- The dog-days of summer vacation held little respite for the Manassas Young Marines, who journeyed down to Camp Barrett here July 9 for a challenging crash-course instruction in basic military training, including physical fitness, weapons familiarization, land navigation, and swim training, which was hosted by the...
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Submitted: Jul 14, 2008

By 1st Lt. Patrick Boyce --- Quantico
MCB QUANTICO, Va. (July 1) -- Early morning sunshine poured into the open bay doors of Shuck Hall here, home of Facilities and Logistics Support Services, and glinted off the rows of folding metal chairs as more than a hundred civilian government workers gathered to hear details concerning and ask questions about the implementation of a High...
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Submitted: Jul 14, 2008

By 1st Lt. Patrick Boyce --- Marine Corps
MCB QUANTICO, Va. -- The Fourth of July found me with a juice-dribbling burger in one hand and an ice-cold beer in the other, reclining in the soft shade underneath a leafy tree surrounded by the laughter of friends and family. As the evening shadows lengthened, I peacefully dozed, fully safe now in my ‘‘Freedom from Fear,’ one of the four basic...
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