MARINE CORPS LOGISTICS BASE BARSTOW, Calif. -- It may seem that without "operational" units, albeit infantry or artillery, MCLB Barstow doesn't see much action.
Marines from MCLB's Fleet Support Division are changing that.
Staff Sgt. Travis Snyder, maintenance chief with Fleet Support Division, began his class on Nuclear, Biological and Chemical war fighting defense and tactics, including a short lesson in "selective de-masking," performed on an unsuspecting lance corporal.
...Marines went from no NBC protection all the way to Mission Oriented Protective Postures level four...
Marines from MCLB's Fleet Support Division are changing that.
Staff Sgt. Travis Snyder, maintenance chief with Fleet Support Division, began his class on Nuclear, Biological and Chemical war fighting defense and tactics, including a short lesson in "selective de-masking," performed on an unsuspecting lance corporal.
...Marines went from no NBC protection all the way to Mission Oriented Protective Postures level four...
...Preparing Marines to survive and operate in a world plagued by chemical warfare and terrorism..
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Peace through readiness, PING!