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Military policemen killed in the line of duty honored at Miramar ceremony

10 Jan 2007 | Lance Cpl. Kaitlyn M. Scarboro Marine Corps Air Station Miramar-EMS

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MARINE CORPS AIR STATION MIRAMAR, Calif. -- Marine Wing Support Squadron 373 held a memorial ceremony at the Bob Hope Theatre Jan. 10, in honor of three MCAS Miramar military policemen who lost their lives Dec. 11, 2006, while deployed to Iraq in support of the Global War on Terrorism.

Corporal Matthew Dillon, a 26 year-old native of Aiken, S.C., Lance Cpl. Clinton J. Miller, a 23 year-old native of Greenfield, Iowa, and Lance Cpl. Budd Cote, a 21 year-old native of Marana, Az., died when an improvised explosive device detonated near the Marines while returning to base after responding to an off-base incident.

Family, friends, co-workers and San Diego policemen attended the somber ceremony, encompassing traditional monuments of overturned rifle, Kevlar helmet, dangling dog tags, a posthumously awarded Purple Heart medal adorning a flak jacket and a clean pair of empty combat boots.

Guest speakers noted this deployment as the first for both Miller and Cote and the second for Dillon, who was first deployed as an Army National Guardsmen.

After the ceremony, each of the three families received a hand-crafted keepsake featuring their Marine’s name tape, military police badge, and Purple Heart medal.

The Marines were scheduled to return in March with MWSS-373. A memorial ceremony was held by their deployed unit Dec. 14 and their funerals were the week before Christmas.

POLICY

The most important starting point for an EMS* is the development of an environmental policy. ISO14001 requires local governments to implement their own environmental policy. The environmental policy acts as a basis for the environmental management system.

PLANNING

ISO14001 requires that an environmental management system is planned properly. It requires the organization to consider the following carefully: Environmental Aspects; Legal and Other Aspects; Objectives and Targets; and an Environmental Management Program.

IMPLEMENTATION

The two requirements for implementation of an EMS is to define, document, and communicate roles, responsibilities and authorities, and to allocate the resources needed to implement and control the EMS.

CHECKING

The key requirement in this EMS step is to regularly monitor and measure key characteristics of activities and operations that could have a significant impact on the environment. Changes to EMS procedures may become necessary in order to deal with nonconformances with the EMS, with mitigating environmental impacts, or corrective and preventive action.

REVIEW

The management review process ensure that information is collected to enable management to carry out proper review. Top management review the need for changes to policy, objectives and targets, and ensure that a commitment to continual improvement is being demonstrated.

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