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Camp Pendleton begins 75th Anniversary Celebration with Battle Color Ceremony

CAMP PENDLETON – Camp Pendleton hosted the annual Marine Corps Battle Color Detachment Ceremony at the Paige Field House football field, March 9.

The public ceremony was the first of many events this year aboard Camp Pendleton in celebration of Camp Pendleton's 75th anniversary.

"Camp Pendleton is a historic place," said Sgt. Kenneth Newton, the 37th Color Sergeant of the Marine Corps. "I trained here as a young Marine. I've trained Marines here. It's an honor to bring the Battle Colors of the Marine Corps, which represents everything we've done, to Pendleton and commemorate that. I know 75 ye...

 

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