FIRE FIGHT Deploy to fi Rst Combat MCBJ fi Refi Ghters Turn up the Heat During Tour Since Vietnam Card Holders Lance Cpl
III Marine Expeditionary Force and Marine Corps Bases Japan January 26, 2007 www.okinawa.usmc.mil Cyber thieves HMM-262 Marines target travel FIRE FIGHT deploy to fi rst combat MCBJ fi refi ghters turn up the heat during tour since Vietnam card holders Lance Cpl. Juan D. Alfonso training exercise at Kadena’s ‘burn house’ OKINAWA MARINE STAFF Lance Cpl. Juan D. Alfonso OKINAWA MARINE STAFF MARINE CORPS AIR STATION FUTENMA — After more than CAMP FOSTER — Service mem- 40 years since its last combat bers should be on the lookout deployment, an Okinawa-based for suspicious e-mails asking for medium helicopter squadron personal account information from 1st Marine Aircraft Wing relating to government travel is answering the call to support charge cards, base officials operations in Iraq. warned recently. Marines with Marine Me- In recent months, an unusual- dium Helicopter Squadron 262, ly high number of service mem- Marine Aircraft Group 36, 1st bers with government cards have MAW, left for Iraq this month. reported receiving the e-mails, The squadron will be based in according to Amanda G. Davis, Anbar province, where it will pro- a government travel charge card vide general air support to ground program coordinator for Marine units. HMM-262 Marines will Corps Bases Japan. deliver supplies and assist rescue “Normally we would only operations and raids in support of receive one or two suspicious e- Operation Iraqi Freedom. mails a year (on Okinawa), but The squadron will work in the last month I’ve received around the clock from the mo- more than 10,” Davis said.
[Show full text]