Gidget Fuentes Writer-Freelance Journalist Specializing in military and defense issues. Most recently the military affairs reporter with North County Times (Oceanside, CA), senior writer with Marine Corps Times and staff writer with Navy Times, weekly newspapers based in Washington, D.C. that cover the military services. Photo by Sandy Huffaker. You may contact by phone: (760) 613-9519 or by e-mail: gidgetf@earthlink.net

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A grunt's life. Infantrymen with Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, wait for their helo ride at Twentynine Palms. Photo by Gidget Fuentes.	An Avenger attached to the the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit fires a Stinger missile at the Marine Corps' desert air-ground combat center near Twentynine Palms, Calif. Photo by Gidget Fuentes.
Sailors watch as tugs spin the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz in San Diego Bay as the nuclear-powered vessel heads to the Persian Gulf. Photo by Gidget Fuentes.	A Marine humvee cuts through Camp Wilson as the sun sets on another afternoon of live-fire training at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in California's Mojave Desert. Photo by Gidget Fuentes.
Marines step off their helicopters at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center's air field during training exercises in the Mojave Desert ranges. Photo by Gidget Fuentes.	Marine walks through damaged church in Mogadishu, in late December 1992 during Operation Restore Hope. Photo by Rich Mason.

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