MEB-Afghanistan Command Deck

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Brig. Gen. Lawrence D. Nicholson

Commanding General, Marine Expeditionary Brigade-Afghanistan

Brigadier General Lawrence D. Nicholson was promoted to Brigadier General September 2007 and is currently assigned as the Commanding General, 2d Marine Expeditionary Brigade. Brigadier General Nicholson was born in Toronto, Canada, and is a 1979 gra...

[Submitted On: 05/19/2009]->Read More

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Sgt. Maj. Ernest K. Hoopii

Sergeant Major, Marine Expeditionary Brigade-Afghanistan

Sergeant Major Hoopii is a native of Maui, Hawaii. Sergeant Major Hoopii joined the Marine Corps in January 1984 and completed recruit training at MCRD, San Diego, CA. Sergeant Major Hoopii reported for duty at Marine Corps Communications and Ele...

[Submitted On: 02/25/2009]->Read More

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MEB-A Family Newsletter

Family Readiness Staff

Family Newsletter 09/2009...

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OPSEC and the Holiday Season

Materials for your use

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Deployed Unit Address

Rank/Name of Service Member

        2nd MEB
        Unit 73010
        FPO AE 09510-3010

Points of Contact in the United States

To contact the 2nd MEB, please call the II MEF Command Duty in Camp Lejeune, NC

Commercial – (910) 451-9788
DSN – 751-9788
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For Family Readiness information, please contact the MEB-A Family Readiness Officer: (910) 450-8034

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News

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Marine uses Jiu-Jitsu to strengthen combat effectiveness in Afghanistan

Lance Cpl. Walter Marino

After watching Royce Gracie use Brazilian Jiu Jitsu to force wrestlers, boxers and martial artists to tap out, Staff Sgt. Noel B. Min, a utilities chief for Regimental Combat Team 7, was hooked....

[Submitted On: 02/08/2010]->Read More

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Service members save Afghan lives with blood drive

Lance Cpl. Walter Marino

When five injured Afghans needed medical attention, Marines and sailors from 1st Medical Battalion, Regimental Combat 7, came to their rescue...

[Submitted On: 02/07/2010]->Read More

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Fighting a thinking enemy; Marines, Afghan Forces engage Taliban with more than brute force

Lance Cpl. James W. Clark

Beleaguered and tired, with combat boots half filled with water, Marines with Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment and the Afghan National Army soldiers attached to their unit, trudge through flooded canals in the Shorshurak region of Helmand province, Jan. 29....

[Submitted On: 02/04/2010]->Read More

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Marines in Nawa honor two fallen brothers, civilian journalist

Sgt. Brian A. Tuthill

Hundreds of Marines, sailors and civilians of 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, gathered during a memorial service in Nawa to honor two fallen Marines and a civilian journalist. ...

[Submitted On: 01/31/2010]->Read More

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Damaged Garmsir school hosts shura

Lance Cpl. Dwight A. Henderson

The schools white walls were stained black from the fire and smoke that billowed out of its broken windows just a week before. Protestors in Garmsir District, Helmand province, Afghanistan, had set fire to the school, burning approximately 300 Korans inside. ...

[Submitted On: 01/31/2010]->Read More

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Marines prepare for Helmand campaign with shooting drills

Lance Cpl. Tommy Bellegarde

Marines from Headquarters and Service Company of 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, arrived at the makeshift rifle range with large packs and complete sets of personal protective equipment under rain-threatening clouds the afternoon of Jan. 23, 2010, at Camp Dwyer, Helmand province, Afghanistan...

[Submitted On: 01/31/2010]->Read More

In The News

U.S. trying to wean farmers from opium

Richard Tomkins

Opium is king in Afghanistan, and nowhere more so than in volatile Helmand province, where the government is attempting to wean farmers away from winter poppy cultivation by making wheat an attractive alternative crop....

[Submitted On: 12/13/2009]->Read More

Keeping the Convoys

Prof. Andew Lubin

The mission, Marines, is to secure a stretch of road where both we and the Brits have taken IED casualties, said First Lieutenant Stephen Strieby, 1st Platoon commander at Camp Leatherneck, Afghanistan, just prior to jumping off on an Oct. 5 route reconnaissance mission. ...

[Submitted On: 12/13/2009]->Read More

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In Helmand, a model for success?

Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Washington Post

Before a battalion of U.S. Marines swooped into this dusty farming community along the Helmand River in early July, almost every stall in the bazaar had been padlocked, as had the school and the health clinic. Thousands of residents had fled. Government officials and municipal services were nonexistent. Taliban fighters swaggered about with impunity, setting up checkpoints and seeding the roads with bombs. ...

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