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III Marine Expeditionary Force and Marine Corps Bases Japan June 30, 2006 www.okinawa.usmc.mil Late-night shuttle service corresponds with liberty program Lance Cpl. Terence L. Yancey Okinawa Marine Staff CAMP FOSTER — Marine Corps Base Camp Butler’s Garrison Mobile Equip- ment Division has created a new late- night weekend and holiday shuttle ser- vice to accommodate service members based on recent changes to the MCBJ/III Marine Expeditionary Force Off-Base Liberty Card Program, MCBJ/III MEF Order 1050.6A. “Service members shall be considered aboard a military installation while using The Green Line transportation between 2400 and 0500,” according to the new order. The new TGL Red Eye Shuttle service is scheduled to operate on Saturdays, Sundays between midnight and 5 a.m. with limited stops on every Marine Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. Michael W. Hagee visits Marines and sailors at the Camp Hansen Corps base in Okinawa. Theater June 22 to discuss core values. He visited six bases across Okinawa and spoke with more than 6,000 “The shuttle service will have stops service members about duty and honor in their daily actions. Photo by Lance Cpl. Warren Peace closer to the (on-base) clubs,” said Thomas L. Ramer, the GME operations officer. “It’s important for riders to make Hagee: Marines are changing history sure their stop is for the new shuttle ser- vice because it won’t go to all The Green Okinawa Marine Staff you.” Hagee said. “The humanitarian Hagee also reflected on his personal Line stops.” Consolidated Public Affairs Office assistance you provided in places like concern over the recent allegations of The new service will begin July 1 and Indonesia and the Philippines is chang- Marines in combat. will operate on a 60-day trial period. CAMP FOSTER — Commandant of the ing history. You’re going to different “We can’t rush to judgment,” Hagee Each route will start with 60-passenger Marine Corps Gen. Michael W. Hagee countries and showing what the Corps said. “If we find individuals haven’t fol- busses and TGL will adjust the size and recently visited Okinawa and addressed is made of – nothing sells the Marine lowed the rules and regulations, we will number of busses based on usage and Marines and sailors as part of a series of Corps better than Marines performing hold them accountable, like the Marine passenger conduct. briefs on Marine Corps duty and honor. magnificently.” Corps has been doing for 230 years.” “If no one uses the shuttle service or The purpose of the visit was to rein- He added that the one thing that sets Lance Cpl. Brandon J. Ledet, a legal if it gets vandalized, the (new) service force the ideals, values and standards of Marines apart from everyone else is the services specialist with the Marine Corps will be discontinued,” Ramer said. “The the Marine Corps and focus on the core way they strive to live up to the core val- Base Camp Butler Staff Judge Advocate future of this service is entirely in the values that distinguish Marines in their ues of honor, courage and commitment. Office, felt Hagee’s words left a strong hands of the Marines and sailors.” daily actions. The commandant challenged all present impression with the junior Marines For schedules, bus stop locations Hagee engaged more than 6,000 ser- to continue that pursuit everyday on and and sailors. and more information on the Red Eye vice members June 22-23 during seven off the battlefield. “I think it really shows how the Corps Shuttle, call TGL Service Center at DSN briefs, aboard six Marine Corps instal- “How do you balance those three core is a family,” he said. “When the com- 645-3843. You may also visit The Green lations in Okinawa. values with what we have to do on the mandant takes time to speak to junior Line link at http://www.okinawa.usmc. “You’re making a difference and battlefield?” Hagee asked. “We have a Marines on a personal level, I feel like mil or listen to American Forces Network the American people are very proud of guide: the Geneva Convention.” I’m a part of something great.” Okinawa on AM 648 or FM 89.1. HELPING HANDS SCOUTING REPORT OLYMPIC SPIRIT The American Red Cross is seeking Boys Scouts and Girls More than 5,000 medically qualified volunteers to be added to Scouts learn woodcarving, participants and volunteers its newly created registry which is designed rappelling, archery and gather on Kadena Air Base to expedite the validation of volunteers’ other skills during summer for the annual Special camps on Okinawa. Olympics. INSIDE credentials during an emergency. pg. 7 pg. 10 pg. 14 2 OKINAWA MARINE | NEWS | JUNE 30, 2006 Around the BARWANA, Iraq | Marines assigned to the Hawaii-based L Company, 3rd Bat- talion, 3rd Marine Regiment, search a house for insur- gents, weapons caches and explo- sives June 16 during For more Marine Corps stories and photos, a patrol. Photo by Cvisit http://www.usmcorp.mil S Sgt. Roe F. Seigle MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. | Marines with the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit battle a blaze June 7 during the Shipboard Firefighting Course. Instructors divided Marines into teams to battle a tower of fire that soared more than 60 feet into the air. Photo by Lance Cpl. Patrick M. Johnson-Campbell AL ANBAR PROVINCE, Iraq | An Iraqi infant is intrigued by Navy Lt. Leonard Blinder’s stethoscope June 10. Marines and sailors from the Twenty-nine Palms, Calif.-based 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, along with a handful of Iraqi soldiers, provided two days of medical evalua- tions to citizens of the small villages along the Iraqi-Syrian border in the western Al Anbar Province. Blinder is a surgeon with 1st Bat- MARINE CORPS AIR STATION MIRAMAR, Calif. | With its unique tiltrotor blades talion. Photo by Cpl. spinning, an MV-22 Osprey with Marine Tiltrotor Test and Evaluation Squadron Antonio Rosas 22 prepares for take off June 14. Two Ospreys with VMX-22, accompanied by two KC-130J Hercules aerial refueling aircraft, performed the long distance flight of more than 2,000 miles from MCAS New River, S.C., to Miramar, testing the deployment capability of the aircraft. Photo by Cpl. Paul Leicht OKINAWA MARINE | OPINION & EDITORIAL | JUNE 30, 2006 3 Does God test our faith? Navy Lt. Winston Paulk his job and she discovered she had cancer. lieving people. But the author frames the “What kind of teacher springs the test be- Chaplain Within the week, they received the news question by depicting a capricious God fore presenting the lesson?” Not our God. that fire had destroyed his parents’ home, who imposes pain on Job in the course We must protest even as we echo Job’s hy do bad killing his younger brother and sending of making a bet. This is a test to prove statement of trust that God is present in things happen his badly burned father to the hospital. Job’s faithfulness. As Job’s story un- our suffering. Wto good people? The tragedies introduce us to a man folds, the author tells us that Job cannot That conviction brings people to- For years, people have similarly stricken, namely Job. In one understand how God can let so much evil gether to pray and celebrate the suffering relied on a somewhat simplistic answer day, Job loses his family and his fortune. happen to one like himself. and death of Jesus. Like Job, in all trials of the scripture: because they sin. Others Faithful believer that he is, his response is Job’s story raises crucial questions and circumstances, let us not lose our have realized this is not always true. They an expression of trust in God: “The Lord for us. Is this how our God actually faith but instead seek our God and His have seen unquestionably good people gave and the Lord has taken away; blessed works? Many centuries after Job’s story righteousness in everything we do. suffer and notoriously sinful people be the name of the Lord” (Job 1:21). was penned, we hold fast to the vision Paulk is assigned to 3rd Materiel prosper. The Book of Job reflects the human of God’s revelations through scripture. Readiness Battalion and periodical- Not too long ago, a young couple was struggle to find reasons for suffering, Our God is a loving, tender parent and a ly leads worship at the Camp Kinser stricken with a series of tragedies. He lost especially the suffering of good and be- patient teacher. As someone once asked, Chapel Sundays at 9:30 a.m. With leadership comes responsibility Soldier’s Load,” published by the Marine necessary to accomplish the mission. Corps Association, Quantico, Va., and part Lance Cpl. We do this not just because we aren’t given a choice of the commandant’s reading list, touches in the matter, but because we take pride in the belief that “on manyA issues most junior Marines and noncom- Juan D. Alfonso we are the toughest branch of service, and we can do missioned officers would be afraid to speak of in the anything. But in reality, sometimes we can’t accomplish company of superiors. everything we are tasked with. It points out that, until recently, the average soldier Underneath the uniform and the pride is a normal hu- was a young, strong man who came from farming – a must account for these factors when determining what a man being, and every human has his limits. man that spent his entire life working with his hands and soldier can, and should, bring into combat.