II MEF News

Retired Marine Staff Sergeant Vincent Gizzarelli (top left) poses for a photo with his family in their brand new house, Jacksonville, N.C., April 28. The house was built using supplies and donations from local businesses and various veterans' groups. Gizzarelli was medically retired from the Marine Corps after suffering traumatic brain injury and shrapnel wounds from multiple IED blasts that he sustained on his second tour to Iraq. - Retired Marine Staff Sergeant Vincent Gizzarelli (top left) poses for a photo with his family in their brand new house, Jacksonville, N.C., April 28. The house was built using supplies and donations from local businesses and various veterans' groups. Gizzarelli was medically retired from the Marine Corps after suffering traumatic brain injury and shrapnel wounds from multiple IED blasts that he sustained on his second tour to Iraq.

Petty Officer 3rd Class Alexander J. Freeman, a hospital corpsman with Bravo Surgical Company, 2nd Medical Battalion, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, teaches a class on combat life saving at the battalion’s new Combat Casualty Care and Combat Life Saving Simulation Lab aboard Camp Lejeune, N.C., Dec 17, 2009. The new facility integrates CLS training with a realistic urban combat simulation that allows sailors and Marines to feel the pressures of combat while conducting aid on a casualty. - Petty Officer 3rd Class Alexander J. Freeman, a hospital corpsman with Bravo Surgical Company, 2nd Medical Battalion, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, teaches a class on combat life saving at the battalion’s new Combat Casualty Care and Combat Life Saving Simulation Lab aboard Camp Lejeune, N.C., Dec 17, 2009. The new facility integrates CLS training with a realistic urban combat simulation that allows sailors and Marines to feel the pressures of combat while conducting aid on a casualty.