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This Week's Marine Corps Times
Issue Date: September 08, 2003
News Breaks
Marine recommended for Silver Star
A Marine from Nevada has been recommended for the Silver Star, the nation’s third-highest medal for valor, for his actions in rescuing wounded comrades while under fire near Nasiriyah, Iraq, on March 23.
Lance Cpl. Donald John Cline Jr., 21, of Sparks, Nev., was one of four Marines killed when their amphibious assault vehicle was hit by enemy fire.
Cline was with 1st Battalion, 2nd Marines, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, from Camp Lejeune, N.C.
Details were not available from the Marine Corps.
“It would be inappropriate for us to comment on a particular award recommendation until the award process has completely run its course,” said Marine spokesman Maj. Douglas Powell.
Cline’s widow, Tina Cline of Sun Valley, Nev., said she had heard numerous stories of her husband’s heroic efforts to save fellow Marines. A letter from Cline’s company commander in May said her husband pulled wounded Marines to safety while under fire just before he was killed by a grenade blast, she said.
Among American military awards for valor, only the Medal of Honor and the Navy Cross rate higher than the Silver Star.
Engineers build border fence
Marine engineers are building a nearly half-mile-long fence to keep people from crossing an area of the U.S.-Mexico border near Naco, Ariz.
The new fence segment will be 12 feet tall and made of steel posts placed about 8 inches apart in a zigzag pattern, said Armando Carrasco, a spokesman for the Defense Department’s Joint Task Force Six headquartered at Fort Bliss, Texas.
The engineers, of Marine Wing Support Squadron 374 based at Twentynine Palms, Calif., also are upgrading a little more than a mile of dirt road east of the Naco port of entry.
Construction will focus on several low-water crossings that turn to slippery muck in the rainy season, making it difficult for Border Patrol vehicles to get to and through the area, Carrasco said.
Several sections of the existing dirt road will be paved with concrete, including one stretch that is more than 800 yards long.
The Marines set up a camp at Bisbee Municipal Airport and are expected to remain in the area for up to a month, working under the auspices of the task force.
The task force coordinates military training missions to support state, local and federal law-enforcement agencies involved in drug enforcement.
The cost of the project is difficult to determine because the cost of labor and equipment is absorbed by the training mission. The cost of materials is covered by the requesting agency, Carrasco said.
Accused midshipmen ask to resign
Two Naval Academy midshipmen accused of sexually assaulting two female classmates in their dorm last year have asked to resign, their lawyer said.
In a written statement, the Naval Academy confirmed Aug. 25 that the academy superintendent forwarded his recommendation to the secretary of the Navy. The statement said that Superintendent Vice Adm. Rodney Rempt made his recommendation after examining the results of an Article 32 evidentiary hearing.
The attorney for Midshipmen 3rd Class Todd Thurston and Eric Bailey said Rempt recommended that Navy officials accept their resignations.
Thurston was accused of raping one female midshipman, Bailey with raping two, during a Commissioning Week party held in the male midshipmen’s dorm last year, officials said. They also were accused of indecent acts, consumption of alcohol and other violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
------------------------------------------------------------ Albert Einstein defined insanity as doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results. ------------------------------------------ 
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