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MarineParents.com Newsletter

In This Issue

Great Gear for Marines and Families
Learning Center: Homecoming
Challenge Coin History
Deployment Information
Unit Information Pages
We'll Promote Your Event
Marine Needs Your Help

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Learning Center:

Operational Security

When communicating online, your Marine's privacy is as important as Operational
Security. Please respect YOUR Marine's privacy!

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Gunny Pop's
New Book!

The Ultimate Marine Recruit Training Guidebook was written by a Marine and former
drill instructor for young men and women who want to become one of the few and
the proud. No one should undertake Marine recruit training without having read
this book.
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MarineParents.com
Never Goes
Door-to-Door

If someone comes to your door asking for donations for MarineParents.com, Inc.,
it's a scam. We never solicit donations by going door-to-door -- ever. We only ask
for donations via our websites or through fliers included in shipments from the
EGA Shop.

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EGA Shop

Gear for Marines and Family Members at the EGA Shop:
All proceeds benefit MarineParents.com outreach programs.
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We Support
the Following

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Learning Center:
About Deployment

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From your Marine, with the USMC, and with other families

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Bills, taxes, legal issues, injuries, notification from the Marine Corps

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Learning Center:
About Homecoming

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Veterans Crisis Hotline

1-800-272-8255

The Veterans Crisis Hotline is a great resource for veterans, active duty military,
and their families, and is backed by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Qualified
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August 22, 2012
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Greetings!
If this is the first edition of the Marine Parents newsletter you have received,
WELCOME! If you are a returning reader we are glad you have joined us and are thankful
for your support.
In This Issue
As we continue to overhaul our look, we're also changing the name of one of our
outreach programs. The Purple Heart Family Support program has been renamed Purple
Heart Hero Support, which we believe better reflects what we do for our wounded
and ill heroes and their families.
So far, we've redesigned and rewritten four brochures: Marine Parents, Recruit Parents,
Care Package Project and now Purple Heart Hero Support. Read more about this latest
change and take a look at our new brochure below.
Also, it's never too late to take an OPSEC refresher course that helps keep our
troops safe.
Today: Dr. Bridget Cantrell is interviewed on New York radio station WHPC about
the effects of combat operational stress, traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic
stress disorder (PTSD). See the link below for information on the streaming audio.
Check out these stories and more in this edition of the MarineParents.com newsletter.
God bless and Semper Fi!

Tracy Della Vecchia

Founder and Executive Director
MarineParents.com, Inc.
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Outreach Program Has New Name

Introducing Purple Heart Hero Support
Know your target audience. Who are your most important customers, clients or
prospects, and why? Know what is important to them and address their needs in your
newsletter each month. Include a photo to make your newsletter even more appealing.

Insert a "read on" link at the bottom of your article to drive traffic to your website.
Links are tracked, allowing you to see which articles create the most interest for
your readers. More stuff goes right here, man.
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Challenge Coin has WWI history

Medallion saved American pilot's life

Among the Marine Corps' many traditions is the carrying of the challenge coin, and
it is rooted in history dating to World War I.

The most common story of the first challenge coins tells of a wealthy lieutenant
in the United States Army Air Corps, the predecessor of the Air Force. He had given
the men in his unit bronze medallions, and one young pilot wore his medallion in
a leather pouch around his neck.

One day, following an emergency landing of his aircraft behind enemy lines, the
pilot was captured by the Germans, and his personal identification was confiscated.
The pilot managed to escape the Germans by donning civilian attire, and he found
his way to a French outpost. But the French had seen many enemies masquerading
as civilians, and because they didn't recognize his American accent, they planned
to execute him.

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Dr. Cantrell Talks on Radio Station

Interview streaming online
On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 at 11:30 a.m., WHPC/Your Family's Health host professor
Joan Buckley interviews Dr. Bridget C. Cantrell about the life-long effects of
combat operational stress, traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder
(PTSD) on military service members and their families. The effect on a community's
first responders -- including law enforcement, fire fighters, EMT personnel and
medical practitioners -- also will be discussed.

Broadcast times: Wednesday, August 22, 11:30 a.m. and Sunday, August 26, 11 p.m.
Times are Eastern Standard.

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Here's an OPSEC Refresher Course

Keeping troops safe is everyone's business

As a family member of the military community, you are a vital player in our success,
and we could not do our job without your support. You may not know it, but you also
play a crucial role in ensuring your loved one's safety just by what you know of
the military's day-to-day operations. You can protect your loved ones by protecting
the information that you know. This is known in the military as "Operations Security,"
or OPSEC.

What is OPSEC?

OPSEC is keeping potential adversaries from discovering critical Department of Defense
information. As the name suggests, it protects U.S. operations -- planned, in progress
and those completed. Success depends on secrecy and surprise so the military can
accomplish the mission more quickly and with less risk. Enemies of freedom want
this information, and they are not just after the military member to get it. They
want you, the family member.

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Note: Text on this page has been adapted from the USMC II MHG website.
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Float: It's a Verb ... and a Noun

Learn about Corps deployment terminology

Do you know what a float is? How about COP?

When a Marine is deployed, family and friends who know what SOI and MOS mean must
learn a whole new set of terminology to keep up with what their loved one is doing.

Our goal is to provide you with information and tools so you can empower yourself
to understand what will happen before, during and after your Marine's deployment.
In preparation for deployment, we strongly recommend you read through the entire
Deployment section on the MarineParents.com website. We are in the process of updating
the Deployment section, so check back often for the latest information available.

By reading, you'll be empowered with knowledge and thereby be better prepared to
support your Marine during the deployment -- and just as important, be better prepared
to take care of yourself.

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Unit Information is Close at Hand

Marine Parents helps you make connection

On the main MarineParent.com website, there's a link that helps you get information
about your Marine's specific unit.

Under the "Duty Stations/Units" header, click on "Unit Information Pages (UIP)."
The pages include unit history and location, USMC contact information and websites
for each unit.

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We'll Shout It From the Rooftops

Marine Parents can promote your event

Are you holding an event in your community to honor Marines or support Marine families?
Or perhaps you're staging a memorial event to remember one of your fallen heroes
who gave everything in the fight for freedom.

You want to build awareness, to promote your event beyond your immediate community.
And that's where MarineParents.com can help.

Right now, among other events, we're promoting the Boot Camp Challenge in September
in San Diego. We promote events such as this one on our Marine Family Network website,
which has thousands of members who log on each day at "a place to connect and share."(TM)

If you would like help promoting your event, contact us, and MarineParents.com will
lend a hand.

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Retired Marine Needs Your Help

Cancer diagnosis brings financial burden

Mike Emmons was recently diagnosed with Glioblastoma Multiforme - Stage 4 Brain
Cancer. He has already undergone surgery to remove the tumor and is currently in
the process of learning about and choosing a treatment plan best suited for him.

Mike is a retired Marine veteran with more than 20 years of service to our country.
He and his wife, Shauna, live in Virginia with their three children ages 12, 11,
and 3.

To relieve some of the financial burden, the family is trying to raise $10,000 by
October 12, 2012.

Click here [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001Im5MVsr8zypp52YdZ8v6Nugul6M7s48PypOJIk1x2AJ1YXSXgqHF3LyBrtncaDPxH-zI1RjQgTHpQV4-eMxGKs4CHZXOpmrzR6f2-rara_UxbJYJfYvgv7yMD6UTrMJHHZ-fyS5n32vHGXoY5dyouquq6dgMhQgOTuFQULi7QTsGrbK5n8e6TFUJdFdkPhn_]
to see our Marine Family Network page about Mike and his family, with links to donate
and read their blog.
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