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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.”

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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).

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Photo Gallery Leatherneck Laffs - February 1968
A humorous look at our beloved Corps. Yes, Marines have a funny bone too!
Photo Gallery On Duty: January 27 – February 2
See our weekly recap of the Corps through photos. We publish a new gallery each week.
Media Gallery Facebook Crazy Caption: January 24 Winner
Every week Leatherneck Magazine selects a photo for our followers on Facebook to caption. This photo of Cpl Nathan Davidson searching a suspicious hole in a wall while on patrol during Operation Double Check, was this week's challenge, and the following is this week's best captions and their creators.
Photo Gallery On Duty: January 20 - January 26
See our weekly recap of the Corps through photos. We publish a new gallery each week.
Video Tet '68 and the Siege At Khe Sanh
Scenes from this video are from the siege at Khe Sanh, Hue City fighting and fighting around the American Embassy in Saigon.

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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)