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- FEATURE: Telling Stories Of War — War Letters Expert To Tour Germany Bases (stripes.com)
He was an ignorant civilian, by his own account. He called Marines "soldiers," for example. He didn’t know what the troops were like, how funny they could be, or how modest or stoic. He didn’t have a clue what they endured, the physical suffering, the emotional sacrifices....
- FEATURE: Marine By Day; R&B Singer By Night (marines.mil)
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...In the music industry he is known by his stage name, which signifies the hard work to excel as an artist while balancing his military career....
- FEATURE: Iwo Jima Veteran Remembers Horror Of Battle, Joy Of Victory (rep-am.com)
"The beach was so crowded with dead and wounded, we had to go back," Pelosi, 83, recalled Wednesday. A private first class in the Third Marine Division, he survived the invasion of the remote Pacific Island, which claimed the lives of 99 Connecticut men....
- FEATURE: A Hard Knock Life: The Marine Corps And Teaching (marconews.com)
Not many people call the White House in the middle of the night, but when that happens, and when someone unexpected answers, an episode can unfold that will change the history books. Such are the adventures, exploits and life lessons learned by Marco Islander William C. Howey. His new book reads like a novel and hits home with a reality that keeps the pages turning....
- VETERANS: In Place of Fatigues, Business Suits (nytimes.com)
...The program was created last year at the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University and has been adopted this year by U.C.L.A, Texas A&M and Florida State to teach disabled soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines the skills needed to start and expand small businesses and help them find financing for their ideas....
- REPORT: Mystery Surrounds Medal Of Honor Winner (lcsun-news.com)
...Like many Vietnam veterans, LCpl Kenneth Worley was not honored with a parade or celebration upon the return of his body to the United States. It even took the U.S. military two years before awarding the medal to Worley, presenting it to his son and foster family....
- REPORT: Using PTSD As A Defense (stripes.com)
...More and more, post-traumatic stress disorder is being introduced as a factor in the defense and sentencing of military members during courts-martial, military attorneys and civilian legal experts say....
- COLUMN: USMC Wannabe Blues (strategypage.com)
All this is the result of long-standing "uniform envy" soldiers have had for Marines. The USMC has always sported the most impressive dress uniform, and young enlisted Marines were glad to spend at least $300 to buy themselves one....
- COLUMN (JAMES BRADY) : Marines In Media (forbes.com)
...They have the most gripping advertising ("The Few, The Proud"); the most effective PR for their multimedia recruiting and retention effort; and they even employ their own war correspondents, about 400 men and women, officers and noncommissioned officers covering today's wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, or wherever America fights....
- LETTERS HOME : I'm Almost Out Of A Job — And That's Good (gjfreepress.com)
...Over the past eight months that I have been here, I have seen this area take huge strides in security, essential services and governance. And I can confidently say that no matter who we choose as the next president, that a drawdown of troops, especially here in Al Anbar, is inevitable. Not because of the person in office, but because of the people of Iraq...
- OPINION: Contractors Help Out The Military (havenews.com)
...The report says in the beginning of 2008, 190,000 civilian contractors — equal to the number of uniformed personnel — were performing jobs in the Iraq theater. One civilian contractor has been hired for every uniformed member of the Department of Defense performing duty in Iraq....
- OPINION: The Secret Struggle For The Most Important American War Memorial Ever Built (foxnews.com)
...So, where are the Afghanistan and Iraq memorials—the memorials we need to commemorate past sacrifice and incentivize future volunteers? It might seem that the slowness to get going on these memorials is simply a matter of inertia or incompetence. But, in fact, the absence of a decision to go forward is, in fact, a decision. The powers-that-be have decided not to do anything right now....
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