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Training and Education Command

Quantico, Virginia

Archive: February, 2003

NHB urges patients to utilize customer evaluation tool

In October 2003, Naval Hospital Beaufort implemented the Interactive Customer Evaluation system. ICE is an Internet-based customer evaluation system that allows our customers to tell us how we are doing. It also helps the command in addressing both positive and negative feedback in a more efficient and effective manner. Web-based comment cards

Parris Island has a new voice

Staff Sgt. Tyron Downing's voice booms over the Peatross Parade Deck, imprinting on the minds of more than 200,000 visitors each year as he takes his place in what he calls, "the greatest show on Earth" - recruit graduation. "I want to give the audience a show," said Downing. "Many of them have driven for days or flown for hours to see their new

CG awards medal to HQ Marine

Brigadier Gen. Joseph J. McMenamin, commanding general of the Depot and Eastern Recruiting Region, awarded the Navy/Marine Corps Medal for Heroic Peacetime Actions to Lance Cpl. Joseph Carman, admin clerk, Headquarters and Service Bn. S-1, at the morning colors ceremony in front of Barrow Hall Jan. 31. Carman rescued a Beaufort woman and her child

WFTBn. unveils new Combat Endurance Course

"I just can't do it - I can't get over," shouts a recruit from the top of a cargo net. "Yes you can," responds the drill instructor. "You made it over the Stairway to Heaven and the A-Frame - you can do this." Another recruit climbs to the top to aid the stuck recruit, and, after a few minutes, the recruit is finally able to get over the top of the

Rev up cardiac health with proper diet, healthy lifestyle

The number one killer of Americans is not some sneaky assassin with a gun. It is not a haphazard weapon of mass destruction - unless you think the U.N. Security Council should sanction fast food conglomerates. The real number one killer in America is heart disease. The Food and Drug Administration, a government agency charged to ensure foods are

NFCU opens new facility at NHB

Navy Federal Credit Union unveiled a new branch near the Beaufort Naval Hospital on Jan. 30, in a grand opening ceremony. The new branch, located adjacent to the gas station, is open Monday through Thursday from 8 a.m. - 4 p.m., and Friday from 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. "We've gone from 525 square feet to 1,404 square feet. Navy Federal Credit Union is a

1st RTBn. storms Ft. Sumter for Civil War PME

Two hundred and forty six years after the first shot of the Civil War, the city of Charleston, S.C., once again played host to the United States Marine Corps as members of Headquarters Co., 1st RTBn., visited various battlegrounds for a historical professional military education. Approximately 30 Marines from the battalion departed the Depot in the

Yellow Footprints Detachment becomes official with charter

After months of organizational meetings and membership drive socials, the Marine Corps League Yellow Footprints Detachment became official in a chartering ceremony at the Peatross Parade Deck Saturday. The detachment's charter members were sworn in and presented with their official charter by the MCL Department of South Carolina, formally

Hand revisits Ribbon Creek incident for Depot DIs

Retired 1st Lt. Jesse A. Hand, a former Parris Island drill instructor, spoke to RTR personnel at Traditions Jan. 28, about the events surrounding the Ribbon Creek incident and how it changed recruit training. Hand was aboard the Depot primarily to attend his granddaughter's graduation, but, given his history with Parris Island, he was invited to

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