Commanding the Pacific: Marine Corps Generals in World War IIBrown, Russell K.Journal of America's Military Past
At Marine Corps Combat Development Command, a three-star level command aboard Quantico Marine Base, every past and current commanding general is a white male with one exception from the 1980s (Lt. Gen. Frank Emmanuel Petersen Jr., who was also the Marine Corps’ first African American...
“The Marine Corps needs African American generals, and we need more,” Brilakis said. “We’ve got a lot of young kids who look up and they get inspired by the Marine Corps early and they look around for people they can aspire to and it’s necessary that we h...
How the Marine Corps’ barracks got to be so bad, according to 2 generals Years of spending more on weapons systems than on quality of life was one reason, the Marine Corps’ budget chief said. ByIrene Loewenson “We didn’t have the data to say, ‘How are we...
Generals O-7, Brigadier General, BGen O-8, Major General, MajGen O-9, Lieutenant General, LtGen O-10, General, Gen NOTE 4:There has never been an O-11 "five-star" General rank thus far in the Marine Corps, though such a rank could theoretically be created at any time by an act...
MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C.—Secretary of Defense Robert Gates met with Marines from the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, April 23, as thousands of them prepare to deploy to Southern Afghanistan. http://www.iimefpublic.usmc.mil/public/InfolineMarines.nsf/ArticlesListingReadCurrent/59C63...
Lt. Cmdr. Terry O’Brien stated in his 1993 Marine Corps Command and Staff College thesis paper, “‘…From the Sea’ has not discovered a new form of warfare – it has rediscovered the capabilities of the Navy/Marine Corps team.” In an era heavily influenced by the “joint...
Scheller Jr had served 17 years in the Marine Corps. The USMC spokesperson confirmed the report. “Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller Jr. is currently in pre-trial confinement in the Regional Brig for Marine Corps Installations East aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune pending an Article 32 preliminary ...
Smith also noted, in response to a question from King, that a hold on general-officer nominations affects not just would-be generals but also lieutenant colonels. The Marine Corps has a cap on its number of colonels, Smith said, so when a colonel can’t ascend to...