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Robert "Chip" Schwartz (left), Production Plant Barstow manager, holds the check with Jonathan James (center), supervisory project director, business support branch, quality management center, Marine Corps Logistics Command, as the check is presented to Robert Hartong (right), optics journeyman, for his contributions during the presentation ceremony held on Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow, California, June 30, 2022. Hartong had developed a piece of glass for the LAV-25 and effectively save the government over $400,000 and was estimated by Schwartz to have saved the Marine Corps over a million dollars, with a prediction of several more millions of dollars saved. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Jack J. Adamyk) - Robert "Chip" Schwartz (left), Production Plant Barstow manager, holds the check with Jonathan James (center), supervisory project director, business support branch, quality management center, Marine Corps Logistics Command, as the check is presented to Robert Hartong (right), optics journeyman, for his contributions during the presentation ceremony held on Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow, California, June 30, 2022. Hartong had developed a piece of glass for the LAV-25 and effectively save the government over $400,000 and was estimated by Schwartz to have saved the Marine Corps over a million dollars, with a prediction of several more millions of dollars saved. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Jack J. Adamyk)