VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - Long time Durham, N.C., native Michael A. Tabb was promoted to the rank of staff sergeant in the United States Marine Corps during a ceremony with fellow Marines aboard Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek – Fort Story, April 2.
Tabb, who received his high school diploma from the Durham School of the Arts in 2002, is currently serving as an administration chief at Marine Corps Security Cooperation Group in Virginia Beach, Va.
Since enlisting in May 2002, he has provided clerical and logistical support to more than 5,500 Marines and sailors around the globe to include military engagements in Haiti, Costa Rica, Panama, Bahamas, Barbados, Mexico, Honduras and Peru.
He also deployed with Eighth Communications Battalion, Camp Lejeune, N.C., to Fallujah, Iraq from August 2005 until February 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Tabb lives in the Virginia Beach area of Virginia.
His parents Turner Tabb currently resides in Richmond, Va., and his mother Evelyn Elaine Gunter still resides in the Durham, N.C., area.
Marine Corps Security Cooperation Group is a unit in the Marine Corps that coordinates, manages, executes, and evaluates United States Marine Corps Security Cooperation programs and activities, to include assessment, planning, military related education and training, and advisor support to ensure unity of effort in building Partner Nation Security Forces capacity and capability in order to facilitate USMC and regional Marine Forces component support to combatant commanders security cooperation objectives.
Date Taken: | 04.02.2012 |
Date Posted: | 04.03.2012 09:12 |
Story ID: | 86162 |
Location: | VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA, US |
Hometown: | DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, US |
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