Marine Corp

A troubling dream awoke Hilaria Hannon one night recently and sent her scurrying to put a dollar in her purse. In the dream, she was a cook in a Mexican restaurant, but instead of cooking, she stood frozen, her face twisted with sadness. She interpreted the dream as a bad sign and put the dollar in her purse, planning to give it away to the first needy person she met the next morning to ward away the ill omen. But she still has that dollar.

He sculpted bronze busts for kings and presidents and created monumental sculptures that are displayed around the world. But Felix de Weldon's best-known work is on the edge of Arlington National Cemetery: a 100-ton, 78-foot-tall bronze sculpture that captures one of the defining moments of World War II. De Weldon, who created the U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial depicting the historic raising of the American flag on Mt.

Leonard Earl Fribourg, a retired Marine Corps brigadier general who served in three wars before becoming an executive at an Orange County food services firm, died over the weekend. He was 72. Fribourg's wife, Dottie, said he died Saturday afternoon of complications arising from a staph infection. The funeral will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at the base chapel at El Toro Marine Corps Air Station, with burial at El Toro Memorial Cemetery.

The U.S. Marine Corps on Thursday identified a serviceman from Ohio who was killed and three others, including two from Irvine, who were injured when their Sea Knight helicopter caught fire in flight over Kuwait. All three were with a squadron based at the El Toro Marine Corps Air Station. Killed was Marine Cpl. Matthew J. Michalec, 23, of Mogadore, Ohio. The injured were Capt. Michael S. Jackson, 30, and Cpl. James M. McGuinness, 26, both of Irvine, and Capt. Mathew S.

Growing up in the San Joaquin Valley, where so many dreams are hemmed in by the fields, Jeremiah Baro and Jared Hubbard had the good fortune of being suburban boys. Their fathers weren't farmworkers following the crops, but a loan officer and a cop who expected even more for their sons. But when they graduated from high school three years ago, the standout wrestler and the football star seemed unsure what to do next.

Measures designed to prevent jet fuel and other pollutants that are seeping into ground water at the Marine helicopter station in Tustin from contaminating the Upper Newport Bay watershed will be in place by mid-December, a Marine Corps spokesman said Friday. Capt. Brian Leap, facilities officer for the Marine Corps air stations in Tustin and El Toro, said the Marines "fully agree" and will comply with a state water-quality board's order, issued Friday, that the project be completed by Dec. 15.

Because a recent string of military aircraft accidents can be largely blamed on human error, the commandant of the Marine Corps on Tuesday ordered all Marine pilots to leave their cockpits for a two-day safety refresher course over the next two weeks. Gen. Alfred M. Gray Jr. said in the seven recent accidents, which claimed the lives of 45 Marines, "air crew error predominates and most likely will be a primary cause in all these mishaps." Aircraft and crews based at Tustin and El Toro Marine Corps air stations in Orange County have been involved in three of the fatal helicopter accidents, accounting for 25 of the fatalities.

Officials at the Tustin Marine Corps Helicopter Air Station proposed encircling jet-fuel saturated soil at the base with an impermeable 18-foot-deep clay barrier and continued treatment of contaminated water seeping from the site in a long-awaited cleanup plan submitted Monday.

Lt. Col. Oliver L. North, the National Security Council staffer fired by President Reagan for his role in the Iranian arms affair, reported for duty as ordered today to the headquarters of the Marine Corps. Lt. Col. John Shotwell, a Marine Corps spokesman, said North--whom Reagan on Sunday called "a national hero"--was spending this morning dealing with the paper work surrounding his return to the corps and had not yet received a specific job assignment. "Lt. Col.

The Marine Corps jailed a Marine cook Friday who allegedly deserted in Vietnam 17 years ago and said it may court-martial him on desertion and other charges. Pvt. Douglas Beane, who returned to the United States last week to see his aged parents, was confined to the brig at the Quantico, Va., Marine base on the decision of his commanding officer because of indications that he "might not appear for a pretrial hearing or subsequent possible trial if left free," the Marines said.