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Count off: Base officials to decide on 2010 census impact
Lance Cpl. Austin Hazard
Station officials will meet with U.S. Census Bureau officials in February, 2010, to determine how the upcoming census will be held here. Every decade, the bureau takes inventory of the country's population in order to adjust the number of representatives each state rates in Congress and determine aspects of state and city budgets, among other things.
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Corps clears up tattoo policy
Gunnery Sgt. Bill Lisbon
The Marine Corps released additional rules to its tattoo policy last month, banning more places on the body where Marines cannot get them and setting tougher rules for officers. In addition to the already prohibited head and neck, Marines cannot get tattoos or brands on their hands, fingers, wrists or inside their mouths, according to Marine Administrative Message 29/10 released Jan. 15.
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New fence curbs 100+ parking spaces near station flight line
Lance Cpl. Aaron Diamant
With the new security fence construction near the flight line here, 116 parking spaces near the hangars have been lost. Planning experts are working to remedy the problem, and a plan is in the works to convert unused and lightly used land near the flight line into extra parking to make up for the lost spaces.
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IPAC Marines prepare for Bataan hike
Lance Cpl. Sean Dennison
Marines from the station's Installation Personnel Administration Center began training with a predawn 5-mile hike around base Jan. 28, 2010, for the 21st annual Bataan Memorial Death March. The annual 26.2-mile march, to be held at the White Sands Missile Range, N.M., on March 21, 2010, commemorates the nearly 75,000 Americans and Filipinos forced across the hellacious terrain of the Bataan Peninsula to internment camps by the Japanese during World War II.
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