Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune News Archives

Family, friends, and fellow military members said their final goodbyes Monday as Lance Cpl.

Jacksonville is now home to one of only eight sites in the nation to host a new psychiatric program specifically designed to assist active-duty troops and their families struggling with mental and behavioral health issues.

Active-duty and reserve Marines should receive H1N1 influenza vaccinations no later than March 1, Marine officials say.

At a long table covered in a white tablecloth and set with fine china, the Shattucks, their children, grandchildren and four Marines from Camp Lejeune sat holding hands with their heads bowed in prayer while 12-year-old Erin McCarthy asked God to watch over America's troops.

The local community has helped Marines in Camp Lejeune Wounded Warrior Barracks get home for Christmas for three of the past four years and its help is needed again.

Grunts everywhere, prepare to face the Crips of Kabul. The same techniques used by inner-city cops to fight street gangs in the U.S. are headed to Afghanistan - this time to root out insurgents, collect intelligence on improvised explosive device networks and build sources in Afghan villages.

A Marine, who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom, has died, according to a release from the Department of Defense.

A Marine Corps captain, wounded in Fallujah, has a new best friend. This yellow lab is named Titus and he now belongs to Captain Chris Ayres.

It's easy to look around this base and find buildings that date to the early 1940s.

A former Spanish military officer who recently retired as a police commissioner traveled across the Atlantic Ocean last week to tour Camp Lejeune and meet Onslow County Sheriff Ed Brown.

The Marine Corps special operations unit is getting a new commander and a new headquarters.

US MARINES MENTAL HEALTH Dr. Kernan Manion poses for a photograph in his officer in Hampstead, N.C., Friday, Nov.

Marines both active and retired, and their families, now have another place to shop in Albany for the holidays.

We're gathering details on a Camp Lejeune Marine who pleaded guilty to soliciting sex with a minor.

Following the Marine Corps' 234th birthday uniform pageant and cake cutting ceremony on the station parade field Nov.

Fifty-three men with ties to the Marine Corps' Camp Lejeune have been diagnosed with a rare form of breast cancer.

Cpl. Joshua Hartzell, 22, of Hamilton, is pictured at the Marine Ball on Nov. 1. AP This undated photo provided by the USMC public affairs office at Camp Lejeune shows Marine Pvt.

The Department of Defense is investigating the death of a Camp Lejeune Marine in Iraq.

The Marine Corps has identified a 22-year-old Marine from Central Texas killed in hostile action in Afghanistan.

Last April, two Marines at Camp Lejeune predicted to a psychiatrist that some Marine back from war was going to "lose it." Concerned, the psychiatrist asked what that meant.

The body of Marine Cpl. Joshua Hartzell was escorted by about 40 motorcycles and scores of other vehicles to its final resting place at Venice Cemetery on Layhigh Road.

A group of veterans who once lived aboard Camp Lejeune believe a $600,000 contract between the military and the National Academy of Science may be an indicator of tainted research.

Four hundred more Michiganders have added their names to a national registry of about 150,000 people who believe they were exposed to contaminated water at the Camp Lejeune military base in North Carolina, bringing Michigan's count to 3,700. One of them is Kathleen Armstrong, 50, a Detroit native now in Redford Township.

A steady flow of mourners paid their respects to Marine Cpl. Joshua Hartzell on Saturday afternoon, Nov.

The National Research Council released a controversial report in June that said science could not link polluted water at Camp Lejeune to illnesses suffered by thousands of residents who lived on the Marine Corps base.

A North Carolina Marine whose body was found near his barracks died from blows to the head.

Marines looking to wear some bling this year have a new option. In conjunction with the Marine Corps Birthday on Tuesday, an Atlanta-based jeweler is selling Marine Corps-themed Faberge-style eggs, with all proceeds benefiting Marine charities.

After spending a few years at The University of Southern California, in 1944 Margaret "Midge" McWhirter decided to leave the West Coast for Washington, D.C., where her father had recently joined Congress.

Published: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 9:02 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 9:02 p.m. Around the world, U.S. Marines are celebrating the 234th anniversary of their beloved Corps, established Nov.

Family and friends say a Marine beat to death aboard Camp Lejeune early Friday was an outdoorsman who loved being in the Corps.

A Clark County Marine faces homicide charges out of North Carolina. Pvt. Jonathan Law was taken into custody by military authorities Friday morning.

A Marine killed at Camp Lejeune, N.C., has been identified as a Hamilton, Ohio, native.

A Florida newspaper is reporting that a study conducted on water contamination at Camp Lejeune could be a conflict of interest.

In 1985, Anthony Sowell left the Marine Corps as a corporal after a seven-year career as an electrician that took him to Marine bases across the world.

Many cities the size of Jacksonville have Christmas parades, but Michigan resident Jack Bell said he has never seen a Veteran's Day Parade.

A Marine private accused of killing another Marine at Camp Lejeune, N.C., was taken into custody Friday, base officials said.

Following a deadly shooting attack at a Texas Army post and a homicide Friday morning aboard Camp Lejeune, officials on base say they will monitor the incidents and assess what they mean for security procedures.

Updated at 1:27 p.m. Pvt. Jonathan Law is being treated at Pitt Memorial Hospital in Greenville, said Capt.

Base officials are offering their condolences to those impacted at Fort Hood and monitoring the situation for possible security changes in the wake of the shooting.

Marine Corps officials confirmed today that accused serial killer Anthony Sowell was stationed once at Camp Lejuene and twice at Cherry Point during his military career.

Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker will visit North Carolina-based Marines to promote a treatment program for mental health and chemical dependency.

Share + Nov 3, 2009 9:36 am US/Eastern JACKSONVILLE, N.C. An autopsy report shows a former Camp Lejeune Marine's slain wife was strangled with a belt.

Cpl. Andrew Conte was given a job that is easy for no Marine. A squad leader with 3rd Battalion, 8th Marines, based at Camp Lejeune, N.C., Conte deployed to Afghanistan from November 2008 to June 2009, pushing his Marines in 1st Platoon, Lima Company, as they handled the company's Quick Reaction Force operations, in which Marines are frequently ...

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