Just ahead of me, across the canal, three Marines have begun darting heroically up to the canal's bank at intervals, shooting, then dropping back again as the enemy targets them. Constant, unrelenting ferocity is the primary tactic of the Marine Corps infantryman, and my comrades' methodical,...
December 7, 1941, in Marine Corps history. Click for more information. Published on 12/7/2024 On December 7, 1941, Japanese forces launched a surprise attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The attack began just before 8:00 am local time, and in the...
One of the towns patrolled by the artillery battalion from Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., is Al Madinah as Siyahiyah, known to the Marines as “Tourist Town.” Corporal David B. Santy, an infantryman turned intelligence data specialist with Battery C, 1st Bn., 11th Marines, said...
December 7, 1941, in Marine Corps history. 12/7/2024 On December 7, 1941, Japanese forces launched a surprise attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The attack began just before 8:00 am local time, and in the two hours it lasted, nearly 20 American...
Several of my former commanders in the Navy and Marine Corps have been there for me every step of the way as I struggled, and those I served returned kindness and support to me when I was hurting. A few other Chaplains who had been crushed by the system were also there for me. Howev...
aIn some situations, the Marine Corps and Army can greatly contribute to obtaining sea control through occupying a strait or some important island or part of the coast or enemy naval or air base 在有些情况,海军陆战队和军队能对获得海控制很大地贡献通过占领海峡或某一重要海岛或者一部分的海岸或...
The first I’ve chosen to save isMarine Girls’Beach Party. There was plenty punk, metal, post-punk or pop that I could have selected to remind me of my youth in a small fishing community, but this probably sums it up as well as anything for me. When some around me were desperately...
Marine Corps Forces, Pacific, a statement said. Rudder relieved Bronzi “due to a loss of trust and confidence in his ability to command,” the statement said. San Clemente Island, lying about 70 miles (112.6 kilometers) northwest of San Diego, is a training ground for the Marine Corps ...
106. “We were the marines the other Marines avoided. The pariahs, the bad-luck charms. The ones no one wanted to risk being near. As if we didn’t just process death. As if we brought it.”― Barbara Nickless 107. “The Marine Corps is the Navy’s police force and as long as...
Wright, Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune The Globe Alfred M. Gray, Jr., 29th commandant of the Marine Corps, created the one ethos that would last throughout the following history pages of Marine Corps heritage - “Every Marine a rifleman.” To exemplify this, he was the only commandant to...