Gunnery Sgt. Diego D. Pongo, a critical skills operator from Simi Valley, Calif., and Capt. Moises A. Navas, a special operations officer from Germantown, Md., suffered fatal wounds while accompanying Iraqi Security Forces during a mission to eliminate an ISIS...
By: Robert Malicki The piece on Iwo Jima intrigued me for I have an unusual take on it. My father, who was born on February 23rd, 1923, enlisted days after Pearl Harbor in the Air Corps. The middle of three...
By: Sabrina I remember very well the first day at boot camp, zero dark thirty meeting my new sisters. I also remember not being able to pee for hours and everyone being so mad at me and so tired. When...
By: Robby J. Hookham As a retired Marine who served from 1981 thru 2001, the only ‘service rifle’ I ever knew was the M-16. I started out with the A1 in boot camp, shot high Sharpshooter (1 point out of...
As the Marines stormed the beaches during World War II, Navy hospital corpsmen were alongside them for every battle in the Pacific. During the violent Battle of Iwo Jima, hospital corpsmen’s medical training, dedication to saving lives and fighting spirit...
Marine Corps Trials 2020 began here today with a cheerful opening ceremony. Honoring each country and team—Canada, Columbia, France, Georgia, Italy, United Kingdom, Wounded Warrior Battalion-East and Wounded Warrior Battalion-West—and their participants as they were introduced to the crowd that...
"Gonna run all day "til the running's done." That's just one of dozens of Marine cadence calls you'll hear on Marine Corps bases. These call-and-response Marine Corps running cadences and marching songs include inspiring or funny marine corps cadence lyrics...
By: David Carriker I’ve long known of the eternal discussion of the Springfield, M-1, M-14 and finally the M-16. Depending on the age of the Marine, each of these rifles has its supporters. I qualified Expert on the M-1, M-14,...
By: Paul T. Kuras We aviation guys in the late 1940’s used to fire annual qualification at Camp Mathews as we did not have a range at El Toro. The summer of 1948 I was TADed to Mathews as a...
