Marine Corps

Marine Capt. Robert D. Clark recently deployed with the Marine Corps' Second Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion to Fort Benning, Ga., for a three-month training exercise.The annual gunnery exercise involves light armored vehicles equipped with 25 mm machine guns. Marines will use the Fort Benning firing ranges to practice shooting at moving targets while maneuvering in the field.The Marines also will participate in small arms training and team operation.Captain Clark is the son of James P. and Joyce L. Clark of Berrett.

* Marine Corps Chief Warrant Officer II Joseph R. Eagle recently graduated from the University of Maryland with a bachelor of science degree in business administration.He maintained a 3.5 grade point average. He completed his degree requirements by attending night school at various universities throughout the world, wherever he was assigned for duty.Warrant Officer Eagle and his wife, Diane, live in Eldersburg with their two sons, Brian and Timothy. Diane Eagle is the daughter of Samuel and Kathy Young of Sykesville.

Marine 2nd Lt. Gregory J. Hanville, son of George J. and Margaret A.Hanville, has graduated from The Basic School.While attending The Basic School, at the Marine Corps Combat Development Command in Quantico, Va., Hanville was prepared as a newly commissioned officer forassignment to the Fleet Marine Force.The 26-week course includes instruction land navigation, marksmanship, tactics, military law, personnel administration, Marine Corps history and traditions, communications and techniques of military instruction.

* Marine Pfc. Chad M. Austin, son of Arthur S. and Laura Austin of Manchester, has completed the Basic Assault Amphibian Crewman's Course.The seven-week skill training with Schools Battalion, Marine Corps Base, Camp Pendleton, Calif., prepared him for assignment to a Marine assault amphibian unit. Assault amphibian vehicles are used to transport troops and supplies both from ship to beachhead during subsequent operations ashore.He received instruction on the vehicles capabilities and operating characteristics; participated in land and water driving exercises; and studied operator-level maintenance procedures.

Charles Gillis "Max" Maxwell, a retired Western Electric Corp. machine operator, died of a stroke Friday at a Hanover, Va., hospital. The former Dundalk resident was 62. Mr. Maxwell was born and raised in Baltimore and graduated from Our Lady of Lourdes Parochial School. He served with a Marine Corps infantry unit in Vietnam from 1963 to 1967. He attained the rank of corporal, and his decorations included the Marine Corps Rifle Sharpshooters Badge. After being discharged from the Marine Corps, he joined Western Electric's Point Breeze plant, where he worked as a quality-control inspector until transferring to the Hanover, Va., plant in 1983.

Midshipman William Selby surveyed the options for graduates of the Naval Academy and passed over ship officer, aircraft pilot and submariner for arguably the most dangerous selection of all: a career in the Marine Corps. "An easy choice," the Frederick native said. "I wanted to be where the action is." Selby, 21, is one of 273 first classmen, or "firsties," who will receive commissions in the Marine Corps this year. It is the highest number in recent Naval Academy history, accounting for more than 25 percent of the graduating class of just over 1,000.

Middle school students urged to tune out in Oct. Sixth-graders at North Carroll Middle School in Hampstead are being encouraged to turn off the tube for the month of October."

Marine Pfc. Curtis S. Bradley, son of Harry F. Bradley of Laurel, recently reported for duty with Marine Corps Security Force Company, Keflavik, Iceland.Bradley joined the Marine Corps in January 1991.RUDY REPORTS FOR DUTYMarine 2nd Lt. Donald L. Rudy, son of Pamela Crowe of Columbia, recently reported for duty with the 3rd Marine Division, Okinawa, Japan.The 1986 Howard High School and 1990 University of Maryland graduate joined the Marine Corps in July 1990.ALMQUIST GETS SCHOLARSHIPAir Force Cadet Erik A. Almquist has received a four-year Air Force ROTC scholarship.

Retired Marine Corps Col. George C. Fox, who also was an Anne Arundel County official, died Monday of cancer at Chesapeake Manor Extended Care Center. The Arnold resident was 71.Colonel Fox's final assignment was as post commander at Camp Lejeune, N.C. He retired from the Marine Corps in 1976 and then was the county director of manpower planning for seven years.The Philadelphia native was a 1942 graduate of the Haverford School. In 1943, he left the Virginia Military Institute to enlist in the Marine Corps and was assigned to the V-12 officer candidate program at the University of North Carolina, from which he graduated in 1944.

When Col. Norman Schlaich, a 28-year Marine Corps veteran, drank too much on the eve of his 49th birthday and climbed over a closed Naval Academy gate one night last weekend, he altered the path of what a week ago was a highly regarded, gifted career. Schlaich, known as "Dutch," said yesterday he feels sadness and regret for the pain he has caused his family and the school. "I have been treated more than fairly by the academy and the Marine Corps," he said. "I have told the midshipmen all along that they have to be accountable for their actions, and so must I."