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Marine Corps acquisition team gets trigger time October 27, 2014 — On Oct. 24 dozens of acquisition professionals from Marine Corps Systems Command got out from behind their desks and behind the scopes of infantry weapons – the same ones they work hard to deliver to Marines in the fleet.“In a word, awesome,” is how Elizabeth Jansen described her experience. Jansen, a financial analyst for raids and recon, spends MORE

Civilian Marine lends a hand in multi-agency Ebola effort October 22, 2014 — A little acquisition experience can go a long way. In the White House's call for ideas to provide personal protective equipment to those caring for Ebola patients in West Africa, that acquisition experience is coming from Scott Paris, a Marine Corps Systems Command employee. MORE

MCSC holds National Hispanic Heritage Month celebration October 17, 2014 — Marine Corps Systems Command held a celebration culminating the observance of National Hispanic Heritage Month Oct. 15, in Stafford, Virginia. The event, called “Fiesta of Flavors,” was hosted by MCSC’s Marine Air Ground Task Force Command, Control and Communications, or MC3, and featured a food tasting, trivia competition and guest speaker, Donald Calero. MORE

From barrio to Marine Corps, Velazquez succeeded because Father knew best October 10, 2014 — A 16-year-old Luis E. Velazquez woke up in rural Humacao, Puerto Rico, and headed for a bus leaving from the small market in the center of town. He didn’t know which way to go when he got off in Santurce, a barrio of San Juan. He just knew Santurce reminded him of New York—the way it looked and sounded, and made him feel he needed to look like he MORE

Fielding decision made on new civil affairs app October 9, 2014 — After several years in development, the Marine Corps civil affairs community is getting smartphones armed with software that will streamline civil-military assistance operations. Trading pen and paper for smartphone and stylus, the Marine Corps Civil Information Management System, called MARCIMS, will allow civil affairs units to automate their entire process for data collection, planning, and reporting during disaster relief or humanitarian assistance missions. MORE

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