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CAMP KOREAN VILLAGE, IRAQ (22 August 2006) — LCpl. Hollye K. Meeks (left) searches Cpl. Roxanne Cox, after receiving a class on the proper procedures from members of a police transition team. Eight female Marines from different units within 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing volunteered for the Lioness Program to conduct security searches of women crossing into Iraq. Meeks is a motor transport vehicle operator, Marine Wing Support Squadron 374, Marine Wing Support Group 37 (Reinforced), 3rd MAW, and a Houston, Texas native. Cox, native of Cincinnati, Ohio, is a maintenance management specialist, with Marine Aircraft Group 16 (Reinforced), 3rd MAW.
AL QAIM, IRAQ (13 June 2005) — Cpl. Kelly Rohrer, an electrician assigned to Marine Wing Support Squadron 271, Detachment Al Qaim removes an oil filter from a diesel generator while conducting preventive maintenance. Rohrer, a native of Austin, Texas, learned from the other Marines in her section and is proficient in their military occupational specialties. All the Marines in the utilities section cross-trained to learn each other’s jobs. She is one of the four Marines in the detachment’s utilities section.
AL ASAD, Iraq (6 June 2005) — LCpl. Heather L. Moulton, a welder and native of Parma, Ohio, with the machinist and welding shop, Combat Logistics Battalion 2, 2nd Force Service Support Group (Forward), uses a plasma torch to cut metal beams for use as supports as the four-Marine shop builds a custom designed cable trailer. The shop creates, repairs and fabricates metal items to suit the needs of Marines throughout Western Iraq.
AL ASAD, IRAQ (20 January 2005) — LCpl. Nicole Harden, 21, provides security for her fellow Marines with Combat Service Support Battalion’s Company C during a vehicle-mounted, .50-caliber heavy machine gun, live-fire exercise at a range north of Al Asad, Iraq, designed to improve their defenses against roadside attacks and keep their knowledge of the weapon sharp. When she’s not teaching ballet classes in Illinois, Harden serves as an electrician with the 6th Engineer Support Battalion, a reserve unit out of Peoria, Illinois.
FALLUJAH, IRAQ (20 January 2005) — Cpl. Cassandra L. Holbrook, 20, a native of Grays Harbor, Washington, and assistant team leader with the Female Searching Force, conducts a routine search of a female Iraqi at one of Fallujah’s humanitarian aid sites.
AL TAQADDUM, IRAQ (13 JULY 2007) — Sgt. Tasha Monz, field radio operator for Combat Logistics Battalion 13, 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit, conducts maintenance on the Blue Force Tracking system inside a High Mobility Multi-Purpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV). Monz is currently serving her fifth tour in Iraq.
AL ASAD AIR BASE, IRAQ (25 April 2007) — LCpl. Blythe Jones prepares to install a global positioning system in an F/A-18D Hornet aircraft. Jones is assigned as an aviation electrician with Marine All Weather Fighter Attack Squadron 121.
AL TAQADDUM, IRAQ (14 April 2007) — 2ndLt. Nicole Penn, a native of Chicago, Illinois, and a platoon commander with Engineer Support Company, 8th Engineer Support Battalion, gears up for a convoy out to the Amariyah-Ferris region of Iraq on 18 April. In the largest engineering operation since 2nd Marine Logistics Group (Forward) arrived in January, the 8th Engineer Support Battalion began construction of a number of combat outposts in the Amariyah-Ferris region of Al Anbar Province.
CAMP RIPPER, AL ASAD, IRAQ (1 February 2007) — Sgt. Samantha S. Shepard, a logistics vehicle system operator with Combat Logistics Company 111, Combat Logistics Battalion 1, demonstrates proper searching techniques to the group during an impromptu class. As a former military policeman, Shepard was familiar with the basics prior to participating in the lioness program.
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