COMMUNICATIONS PROFESSIONAL
JEREMY BEALE
Quantico Sentry
Fightin’ Sixth visits to celebrate centennial
For the first time in nearly a century the Marines and sailors of the Ready Battalion—2nd Battalion, 6th Regiment‒ returned to their founding grounds, Marine Corps Base Quantico (MCBQ), Independence Day weekend on a Professional Military Education (PME)exercise.
More than 570 service members of 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment traveled from Camp Lejeune, North Carolina in celebration of their 100 year anniversary and to learn about their lineage at the Marine Corps University (MCU), Historical Division.
Marines from the Fightin’ 2/6 celebrate the tribe at Spartan Games
The 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment came to Marine Corps Base Quantico recently to celebrate their 100th anniversary at the base where the unit was born. In addition to participating in Professional Military Education training to learn about the history of the 2/6, they traveled to Camp Upshur aboard Marine Corps Base Quantico to partake in their annual Spartan Games.
The 2/6 competed in the games in honor of Cpl. Albert Gettings, a team leader for Company F, 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, who sacrificed his life in the line of duty. Lt. Col. Marcus Mainz, commanding officer of the 2/6, told of Gettings’ heroism and the importance of a tribe coming together to celebrate Marines past, present and future.
As iron sharpens iron, Marine instructors are the crucible of the Corps
Most can recognize the integral role drill instructors play in the lives of Marine Corps recruits once their feet hit the yellow footprints aboard Marine Corps Recruit Depots (MCRD) Parris Island, South Carolina and San Diego, California.
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As the drill instructors wait to welcome the approximately 90 recruits for a 13-week crucible of rigorous physical and mental basic training, these eager, often fearful souls are reminded of the blood, sweat and tears shed by the millions of Marines who walked the ground before them.
Quantico honored with first ever award for suicide prevention efforts
Marine Corps Base Quantico (MCBQ) received its first ever Outreach Recognition Award from the Defense Suicide Prevention Office (DSPO) Feb. 22 for the Quantico Marine Corps Community Service (MCCS) Community Counseling Program’s campaign during September, which is observed as Suicide Prevention Month each year.
Security Battalion welcomes Lt. Col. Schnakenberg as the new commander
Marine Corps Base Quantico Security Battalion held their change of command ceremony June 21 in which Commander Lt. Col. Robert Cato II passed command on to Lt. Col. Mark Schnakenberg.
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As Cato and Schnakenberg stood tall among their command—the Keepers of the Crossroad—members of the Security Battalion, Provost Marshal Office, Quantico Fire and Emergency Services (QF&ES) and Quantico Marine Band stood alongside them sharing in the momentous occasion.
Seven continents, seven days, seven marathons, one Marine
Forty-seven year old, retired Marine Maj. Shalisa Davis, returned to Quantico Marine Corps Information Operations Center (MCIOC) where she works after becoming the first African American woman to finish seven marathons in seven days across seven continents.
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​Pushing through sleep-depravation, physical exhaustion and illness, Davis ran over 183 miles, thus completing a seven part marathon series.
Embrace the grit: Quantico hosts ultimate warrior athlete preliminaries
For the third year in a row, the High-Intensity Tactical Training program (HITT) will answer the question, “Who among the few and proud are the toughest tactical warrior athletes within the Marine Corps?” as instillations across the world host preliminary competitions for a chance to travel to Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, August 28-31 to compete in the HITT finals to prove who is the best of the best.
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Marine Corps Base Quantico’s HITT program will host its final preliminary June 30 from 8–10:30 a.m. at Butler Stadium.
HITT program heightens warrior mentality
The results are in! After the Marine Corps Base Quantico (MCBQ) High-Intensity Tactical Training (HITT) preliminaries two Marines, Sgt. Justin Odom, Marine Corps Systems Command and Maj. Kerry Hogan, Manpower and Reserve Affairs, will go to the national HITT competition at Camp Pendleton, Calif. The event is scheduled to take place Aug. 28-31 and will give the Marines a chance to be recognized as the ultimate tactical warrior athlete.
The HITT competition was created to help the HITT program grow in popularity as the physical fitness program is still in its infancy.
Marines travel to Fort McHenry, get inspired by The Star-Spangled Banner
More than 20 Quantico Marines learned about the significance of our nation’s flag and its symbolism during the War of 1812 by traveling to Fort McHenry National Park recently, the location of the famous naval battle that took place there during the War of 1812. The training was part of Headquarters and Service Battalion’s (H&S Bn) Revolutionary War Professional Military Education (PME) Series.
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Each Marine walked the damp battlegrounds of Fort McHenry where they were asked if they would have gone to war with a British enemy, which out-manned them five-to-one on that rainy day on Sept. 13, 1814.
Runners celebrate 100 years of Marines at Quantico
Over 350 runners pushed themselves trough extreme 90-degree heat, April 29 as the Marine Corps Marathon (MCM) hosted the Quantico 100 event in commemoration of 100 years of Marines at Quantico.
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As runners took on the 2.62-mile course–one-tenth the size of the actual MCM marathon scheduled for Oct. 22 —their stamina, endurance, and agility were tested.