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Archive: 2004

Systems Command releases educational video

Marine Corps Systems Command recently released a video highlighting the latest equipment headed to the operating forces. Coinciding with the Marine Corps Birthday season, the 16-minute program, produced by SysCom and Braun Film and Video, sheds light on the various product groups within the command, and shows off several of their newest products.

Assault Breaching Vehicle in testing at Aberdeen

A group of Marines were at the Army Test Center, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. on 22 September taking part in a Limited Users Evaluation as well as conducting tests and making improvements to the Marine Corps’ latest innovation in mechanized engineering capability, the Assault Breaching Vehicle, before it makes its way to the Fleet Marine Force

Young Marines have big impact on assault breaching vehicle design

A team of young Marines from around the Corps is putting the Assault Breaching Vehicle (ABV) through final stages of limited user evaluations at the Army Test Center, Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Aberdeen, MD, and helping to make final improvements to the vehicle before it is fielded next year. The ABV is a tracked, armored combat engineer vehicle

Female Cammies To Arrive in January

With the scheduled fielding of additional sizes of combat utility uniforms in Jan. 2005, female Marines will be able to buy uniforms specifically designed with the woman warrior in mind. The Marine Corps has adopted six female-specific sized blouses and seven specific sized trousers. It’s expected that the new sizes will improve uniform fit and

SECNAV PRESENTS MARCORSYSCOM WITH NAVY UNIT COMMENDATION

Secretary of the Navy Gordon R. England visited Marine Corps Base Quantico Thursday, 29 July 2004 to present Marine Corps Systems Command with the Navy Unit Commendation for meritorious achievement in the performance of planning, acquisition and fielding of essential warfighting equipment and assets for Marine Corps Operating Forces in support of

Marines on the ground will have an eye in the sky

Hot-air balloons were used to increase intelligence during the Civil War and 150 years later satellite imagery can do extraordinary things, but during that time very little has improved to help the situational awareness of the company commander on the ground. With the introduction of the Dragoneye Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, officially called the

PM ICE product improvements recognize female Marines

Since 1918, when Pvt. Opha Mae Johnson officially became the first woman to enlist in the Marine Corps Reserve, females have proudly answered the call to serve in the United States Marine Corps. From Colonel Ruth Cheney Streeter's appointment as the first Director of Women Marine Reservists in 1943 to Colonel Katherine A. Towle's appointment as

the official podcast of Marine Corps Systems Command

Conversations about Marine Corps acquisition, innovation, and gear with host Tripp Elliott, MCSC Head of Command Safety.

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