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Training and Education Command

Quantico, Virginia

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Recruit John Kidwell, Platoon 1063, Company D, looks across Edson Range while waiting for his platoon to form up to move to the next obstacle of the Crucible, April 30. Kidwell, from Santee, Calif., comes from a family of Marines. - Recruit John Kidwell, Platoon 1063, Company D, looks across Edson Range while waiting for his platoon to form up to move to the next obstacle of the Crucible, April 30. Kidwell, from Santee, Calif., comes from a family of Marines.

Third-generation Marine finds true brotherhood

From as far back as he can remember he was always treated like a Marine by his family and relatives. Growing up, Recruit John Kidwell, Platoon 1063, was surrounded by family and friends who were Marines, so he was used to the military way of life, said his grandfather, Richard Kidwell, a retired sergeant major. He said he wasn’t surprised when his

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Company L Marine leaves Russia, joins Uncle Sam's Marines

Recruit Yevgeniy Mayba’s earliest memory of his native country of Russia, was standing in a long line for four hours waiting to enter the Lenin Mausoleum and see the body of Vladimir Lenin.Lenin was the first head of the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic and from 1922, the first de facto leader of the Soviet Union. His embalmed body has been on

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