Code Talker Peter MacDonald, visiting MCAS Yuma in March 2012, talks about an incident in WWII when he translated a request for support in Navajo code.
A look around the training facility known as the 'K-9 Village' at Yuma Proving Ground. The facility got its name as it is often used to train K-9 units to sniff out bombs.
Helicopters will take to the skies and Marines will train in parks around Yuma and Brawley the during biannual Weapons and Tactics Instructors (WTI) course. Video by James Gilbert/Sun File Footage
Take a flight on a CH-53 Super Stallion helicopter, with reporter James Gilbert and other members of the media and community leaders during Weapons and Tactics Instructor (WTI) course taught by MAWTS-1, based at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma.
