
TIME FOR BREAK: Lance Cpl. Brett Herman from the 3rd Low Altitude Air Defense Battalion, Camp Pendleton, Calif., break dances during some down time in Djibouti in 2008. (Sgt. Jeremy T. Lock)

TIME FOR BREAK: Lance Cpl. Brett Herman from the 3rd Low Altitude Air Defense Battalion, Camp Pendleton, Calif., break dances during some down time in Djibouti in 2008. (Sgt. Jeremy T. Lock)

Lance Cpl. Brett Herman from the 3rd Low Altitude Air Defense Battalion, Camp Pendleton, Calif. break dances during some down time before moving to the next firing range in the Arta region of Djibouti on January 23, 2008. The Marines will be firing the M203 Grenade Launcher, AT-4 and throwing M67 Fragment Grenades for practice while deployed with the Combined Joint Task Force- Horn of Africa located at Camp Lemonier, Djibouti. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Jeremy T. Lock)

Two U.S. Marine helicopters collided Wednesday over a training site near the California-Arizona border. The crash killed seven Marines in one of the deadliest military training accidents in years. Six of the Marines were from Camp Pendleton. (Associated Press)

Col. Nicholas F. Marano, the commanding officer at Camp Pendleton in California, will be in Simi Valley, Calif., on Feb. 6 for festivities centered around Ronald Reagan's birthday. (Photo courtesy USMC)