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Iwo Jima - Rare Photos, Map And 21st Marine Regiment Action Report
See a collection of rare photos, an original map and action report of the 21st Marines in Iwo Jima.
Samuel Jaskilka-Four-Star Marine General And Once Marines Second-Ranking Officer Dies
Jaskilka joined the Marine Corps reserves as a second lieutenant in 1942 and served as the assistant commandant from 1975 until he retired in 1978. Jaskilka’s awards include the Navy Distinguished Service Medal, two Silver Star Medals, a Legion of Merit, a Bronze Star Medal with a valor device, a World War II Victory Medal, seven Vietnam Service Medals and a United Nations Korea Medal.
2d MLG, II MEF Marines, Sailors To Return After Year-Long Deployment
Approximately 154 Marines and sailors from the 2d Marine Logistics Group, II Marine Expeditionary Force are scheduled to return after a year-long deployment to Afghanistan between Feb. 5-8, 2012.
Statement: Gen Amos On The Latest Defense Budget
Spending priorities in the fiscal 2013 defense budget request call for reductions in the end strength of the Army and Marine Corps, an increase in special operations forces and maintaining the number of big-deck carriers, said Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta during a Pentagon press briefing, Jan. 26, 2012.
Leatherneck Magazine Hosts Northern Virginia Cub Scouts
Members of Northern Virginia's Cub Scout Pack 907, Dens 9 and 10, dropped by Leatherneck on 24 Jan. 2012 to learn about magazine publishing as they worked on their Information Please Achievement.
After a welcome by the editor, retired Marine Colonel Walt Ford, Leatherneck's art director, Jason Monroe, walked the Bear Cub Scouts through designing a magazine.
Commandant Of The Marine Corps’ Combined Awards Program Recognizes Corps’ Finest
“I look at you [Marines] and say to myself, ‘Holy smokes, no wonder we’re successful on the battlefield and everything else we do. What a great looking bunch of Marines,’” said Gen James Amos, commandant of the Marine Corps. “You represent the 175,000 enlisted Marines across the Corps who spend every day slugging it out around the world.”
Inside This Month's Leatherneck
Fifty years ago this month, on the morning of 20 Feb. 1962, millions of people throughout the world were riveted by the televised images and radio accounts of a soon-to-be launched Mercury space capsule from Launch Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral, Fla. The small one-man capsule, Friendship 7, was connected to an Atlas 6 rocket. That rocket and that capsule were poised to put, for the first time, an American astronaut into orbit around the Earth.
Blount Island was not in the original master plan of the universe. Before 1930, it wasn’t even an island, just disjointed marshlands on the St. Johns River near Jacksonville, Fla.
No one could have predicted it would become more than 1,200 acres of terra firma and home to the Marine Corps command that is a cornerstone of the foundation supporting United States maritime forward presence and crisis response: Maritime Prepositioning Force (MPF) and Marine Corps Prepositioning Program-Norway (MCPP-N).
Corps Daily News
DVIDS
ABOARD USS KEARSARGE, At Sea – Marine air ground task forces carry airpower with them wherever they go, be it a full scale Marine Expeditionary Force or a smaller Marine Expeditionary Unit...
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A humorous look at our beloved Corps. Yes, Marines have a funny bone too!
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Events Around The Corps
| “Sands Of Iwo Jima” Showing At National Museum Of The Marine Corps | 17 February 2012 | Triangle, VA |
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| Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation's "Gathering Of Heroes" | 29 February 2012 | Philadelphia, PA |
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| Rappahannock United Way Offers Free Tax Preparation | 16 January 2012 | Fredericksburg, Va |
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| Dakota Meyer, J.R. Martinez To Speak At National Conference | 23 April 2012 | San Diego, CA |
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04 February
1868 - Marines landed at Osaka, Japan, to protect foreign nationals.
Related Article: Marines in Japan By Leatherneck Staff Leatherneck Magazine (Nov 1942)
