DEDEDO, Guam – U.S. Marines and civilian volunteers from Marine Corps Base (MCB) Camp Blaz partnered with the Dededo Mayor’s Office to revitalize a bus stop across from Naval Computer and Telecommunications Station (NCTS) Guam as one of its island beautification projects, Sept. 27 - Oct. 20, 2021.
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SANTA RITA, Guam – The Navy Exchange (NEX) on Naval Communications Telecom Station (NCTS) Guam was awarded the 2020 Bingham Award at Clipper Landing on Naval Base Guam (NBG), Oct. 14, 2021. The award was established in 1979 to recognize outstanding performance in operations, customer service, and community support.The Bingham Award is broken down into nine categories. NEX NCTS Guam won the award for Sales Category 5, which recognizes stores that generated $4 - $12 million in profits for the fiscal year. The award was also presented to Col. Christopher Bopp, the Marine Corps Base (MCB) Camp Blaz commanding officer.
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SANTA RITA, Guam – On July 6, 2021, five locally-hired police officers completed a four-week Navy Security Guard Training Course (NSGTC) held on Naval Base Guam and took their first steps into federal law enforcement. The course introduced the officers to military law enforcement, evidence handling, risk management, unarmed self-defense, and Mechanical Advantage Control Holds (MACH). Additionally, each officer qualified with the M9 pistol, M500 shotgun, and M4 carbine during training.
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DEDEDO, Guam – Participants of the Marianas Terrestrial Conservation Conference (MTCC) visited Marine Corps Base (MCB) Camp Blaz’s North Finegayan Forest Enhancement Site (FES) June 17, 2021. The visit allowed participants to learn more about the innovative conservation efforts being researched at the FES. The site is part of a 1,000-acre forest enhancement program identified in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Biological Opinion for the Marines’ relocation to Guam, the largest limestone forest restoration effort in Guam’s recorded history.
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Joining the Marine Corps was a longtime dream for Nicohlas Benjamin D. Ooka. He first became interested in military service during his sophomore year of high school, enamored with the idea of becoming the first commissioned officer in his family. Originally from Yona, Nicohlas Benjamin comes from a family of veterans.
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Marine Corps Base (MCB) Camp Blaz and the University of Guam (UoG) are collaborating to restore and enhance more than 400 acres of Guam’s forests at the North Finegayan Forest Enhancement Site (FES). This is part of the largest forest restoration effort in the island’s recorded history, eventually covering 1,000 acres of Guam’s forests. MCB Camp Blaz and experts from the UoG began working together in July of 2019 to remove invasive species and restore the native habitat. Enhancement efforts include the planting of culturally important species like the Intsia bijuga, Artocarpus mariannensis, and Elaeocarpus joga, more commonly known as ifit, dokdok, and yoga, respectively.
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Since the establishment of Marine Barracks Guam in 1899 and the liberation of the island during WWII, the U.S. Marine Corps is proud to be a part of Guam’s unique story and seeks to honor the island’s past, present and its future. As the Marine Corps continues to make progress with the building of Marine Corps Base (MCB) Camp Blaz, Guam, numerous steps are taken to respectfully manage cultural and historical sites and artifacts encountered, and to care for them in line with modern preservation law and accepted practices.
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Marine Corps Base (MCB) Camp Blaz officially began the Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots campaign in Guam and the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands. Now starting the campaign’s eleventh year on Guam and sixth year in the CNMI, this week Marines from MCB Camp Blaz delivered toy collection boxes to participating organizations and businesses.
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Marine Corps Base Camp Blaz (MCB) Camp Blaz will be activated on October 1, 2020. The activation is an administrative action that officially marks the initial operational capability (IOC) of the base. This will be the first new Marine Corps base activated since March 1, 1952, with the commissioning of what is presently Marine Corps Logistics Base, Albany, Georgia. The Marine Corps plans to hold an activation ceremony for its newest base in spring 2021.
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Wood carving has been practiced in the Pacific for millennia. Here on Guam there are a few Master Carvers still practicing this cultural art form. In its small part, the Marine Corps, in conjunction with the Department of Chamorro Affairs, have identified the wood from areas where the new Marine Corps base in Guam is being built, and staged it, so cultural carving practitioners can select pieces they want to use for their craft.
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Marine Corps Activity Guam Forest Enhancement Project begins to take shape on Naval Base Guam Telecommunications Station with the arrival of containers and equipment to be part of the new Native Plant Nursery set to open this year.
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