Leatherneck - Magazine of the Marines

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.

“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.”

Since Marine Lieutenant Alfred A. Cunningham reported to Naval Aviation Camp in May 1912, the ability to attack from the sky has played an invaluable role in the war fighting capabilities of the of the capabilities of the Marine Corps. Cpl Nick Neighbors shows us a new exhibit aimed at memorializing Marine Corps Aviation.

The area on the outskirts of Garmsir district, Helmand Province, Afghanistan, has been, until now, nearly untouched by Afghan and coalition forces and the Afghan government.   During Operation Tageer Shamal (Shifting Winds) Afghan forces and Marines with 3d Battalion, Third Marine Regiment cleared the area of insurgent activity, weapons and improvised explosive device-making materials, here, Jan. 4-8, 2012.

GARMSIR DISTRICT, Helmand province, Afghanistan — When U.S. Marines with Company K, 3d Battalion, Third Marine Regiment, arrived here in early November, they met an Afghan National Police force primed for development. Their Afghan National Army counterparts were proficient and ready for transition, but the ANP were ready to grow.

Marine Corps Commandant Gen James F. Amos has appointed a three-star general to investigate and take any required administrative or disciplinary action stemming from a video circulated on the Internet that appears to show four Marines urinating on the corpses of enemy fighters in Afghanistan. Marine Corps LtGen Thomas D. Waldhauser, commander of Marine Corps Forces Central Command, is officially designated as the “consolidated disposition authority” for the allegations surrounding the video.