| 18 Jun 2013 - 1:52pm | U.S. To Join Direct Peace Talks With Taliban Over Afghanistan’s Future | The Guardian | The US is to open direct talks with Taliban leaders within days, it was revealed on Tuesday, after Washington agreed to drop a series of preconditions that have previously held back negotiations over the future of Afghanistan... |
| 18 Jun 2013 - 1:50pm | “Day Of Honor” Afghans Take Over National Security From U.S.-Led Forces | NBC News | KABUL, Afghanistan – U.S.-led troops handed complete control of security to Afghanistan authorities Tuesday – an act of faith in country’s fledgling police and army in the face of near-constant insurgent attacks... |
| 18 Jun 2013 - 1:48pm | Jordan-Led Exercise Poses Unique Challenges To U.S. Marines | Stars and Stripes | AL QUWEIRA, Jordan — It’s hot, barren and isolated, and the living conditions for the 2,400 Marines here assigned to the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, are spartan... |
| 18 Jun 2013 - 1:41pm | Asia-Pacific Nations Welcome Official Start To ASEAN Exercise | Marines.mil | MUARA, Brunei Darussalam -- The commander of the Royal Brunei Armed Forces addressed military leaders announcing the official start to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Humanitarian Assistance/Disaster Relief and Military Medicine Exercise (AHMX) at the Multinational Coordination Centre in Muara, Brunei Darussalam, June 17... |
| 18 Jun 2013 - 1:40pm | Navy And Marine Corps Beefs Up Legal Team For Sex Assaults | San Diego Union-Tribune | With the Pentagon under intense public scrutiny over sexual assault, the Department of the Navy is making changes to a military justice system now swimming in cases... |
| 18 Jun 2013 - 1:38pm | (Video) Charges Possible In Navy Football Sex Assault Claim | CNN | Up to three U.S. Naval Academy football players could in coming days face charges relating to an alleged sex assault of a fellow midshipman, a Navy official told CNN... |
| 18 Jun 2013 - 1:37pm | Marine Corps’ Bagpipes Boycott Drives New Legislation | Marine Corps Times | Having military bands perform at community events would become easier under an amendment passed Friday by the House of Representatives. The legislation is a direct result of the Marine Corps declining an invitation to perform during this summer’s 148th Scottish Gathering and Games at the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton, Calif. New military rules, put in place earlier this year because of budget cuts activated by sequestration, restrict bands from traveling very far for performances... |
| 18 Jun 2013 - 1:35pm | U.S. Arms Companies See Rising Foreign Demand | Reuters | U.S. arms makers see rising foreign demand for fighter jets, missile defense systems and other weapons as countries modernize their forces and U.S. officials, facing tighter budgets, encourage allies to invest more in intelligence gathering and aerial refueling equipment... |
| 18 Jun 2013 - 1:32pm | A Marine’s 200-Mile Ride The Hard Way | myfoxhouston.com | HOUSTON (FOX 26) - When he opens the back of his SUV Iraq veteran Sgt Jeff Chaffin undergoes an amazing transformation. That's where he keeps this. It's not a tricycle.It's a handcycle, a hand operated tricycle and it's darn near a miracle... |
| 18 Jun 2013 - 1:29pm | Marine Veterans Build A Business Around Their Fellow Vets | The Patriot Ledger | PLYMOUTH —When ex-Marine Matt Mastroianni returned from Iraq in 2003 with an injury and more medals than he could count, finding work wasn’t as easy as he thought it would be. “Our service didn’t really help us to get jobs,” Mastroianni said. “Most people would say, ‘Hey, thanks for your service,’ and that was it... |
| 18 Jun 2013 - 8:28am | Elite Units In U.S. Military To Admit Women | New York Times | WASHINGTON — Women will be permitted to serve in the most intense and physically hazardous combat positions in the military, including the Navy SEALs, the Army Rangers and the Marine infantry, senior defense officials said Monday... |
| 18 Jun 2013 - 8:23am | Afghan President’s Forces Taking Security Lead | Associated Press | KABUL -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced at a ceremony on Tuesday that his country's armed forces are taking over the lead for security nationwide from the U.S.-led NATO coalition. The handover of responsibility is a significant milestone in the nearly 12-year war and marks a turning point for American and NATO military forces, which will now move entirely into a supporting role... |
| 18 Jun 2013 - 8:22am | Afghan Forces Struggle As U.S. Weans Them Off Support | New York Times | KABUL, Afghanistan — When the American-led NATO coalition officially transferred security responsibility for all of Afghanistan to government forces in a ceremony on Tuesday, it was in part a formality. Already this year, Afghan forces have been in the lead in fighting the Taliban in more than three-quarters of the country — and they have been killed and wounded at a record pace, accordingly... |
| 18 Jun 2013 - 8:21am | U.S. Says It Will Buy Russian Helicopters For Afghan Military | Reuters | The Pentagon said on Monday it will spend $572 million to buy 30 Russian-built military helicopters that will be used by Afghan security forces... |
| 18 Jun 2013 - 8:19am | U.S. Lays Groundwork For Arming Syrian Rebels | McClatchey | AMMAN, Jordan - The U.S. military began laying the groundwork to arm and support Syrian rebels more than a week ago, using a military exercise currently being held in Jordan as a cover for bringing in personnel and equipment. Despite official statements by the Obama administration that a decision to arm the rebels was made on June 13, preparations were seen by McClatchy on the ground days earlier... |
| 18 Jun 2013 - 8:18am | Dawn Blitz: Marines And Japanese Storm Island | San Diego Union-Tribune | SAN CLEMENTE ISLAND — A joint force of U.S. and Japanese infantry secured the airfield on a remote training range off the coast of San Diego Monday during the Dawn Blitz military exercise. The 1st Marine Expeditionary Force and the Navy’s Third Fleet are frequent visitors at San Clemente Island, where they practice the complex coordination required of ship-to-shore operations and live fire exercises... |
| 18 Jun 2013 - 8:17am | Pratt & Whitney To Pay For F-35B’s Grounding, Executive Says | Businessweek | United Technologies Corp. (UTX)’s Pratt & Whitney unit and its subcontractors will pay the entire cost of grounding the Pentagon’s F-35B fighters in January because of a propulsion-system flaw, the unit’s top official said... |
| 18 Jun 2013 - 8:15am | Marine One-Star: Counterinsurgency Skills Learned In Iraq, Afghanistan Relevant In Pacific | Marine Corps Times | The cultural know-how Marines developed as part of the counterinsurgency strategy used in Iraq and Afghanistan will be applicable to new missions in the Asia-Pacific region, according to a general who oversees operations there... |
| 18 Jun 2013 - 8:14am | NASA Picks 8 New Astronauts, 4 Of Them Female, Including 1 Marine | Associated Press | CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA has eight new astronauts — its first new batch in four years. Among the lucky candidates: the first female fighter pilot to become an astronaut in nearly two decades. A female helicopter pilot also is in the group... |
| 18 Jun 2013 - 8:13am | First Prototypes Of U.S. Marine Corps CH-53K To Fly Soon | ainonline.com | The first four flying versions of the U.S. Marine Corps’ next generation CH-53K helicopter were advancing through assembly at Sikorsky Aircraft’s West Palm Beach, Florida, facility earlier this year... |
| 17 Jun 2013 - 1:56pm | The Future Of The Marine Corps | U.S. Naval Institute | After ten years of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. Marine Corps is retooling and repositioning itself back into its traditional role as a medium-weight maritime force that can operate with agility from the sea. Instead of training almost exclusively to fight insurgents deep inland... |
| 17 Jun 2013 - 1:50pm | Injured Marine Awarded The Bronze Star With Combat “V” | turnto23.com | DELANO, Calif. - A marine from Delano is being honored for his bravery while on a mission in Afghanistan. Corporal Jose Salazar of Delano is proud to be part of combat v and would do anything for his military brothers and sisters... |
| 17 Jun 2013 - 1:48pm | Osprey Crash Responders Awarded Medals | Marine Corps Times | GySgt Joseph Alvarez was watching an MV-22B Osprey rise from a training site in Morocco last year when everything went wrong. The aircraft lost balance, pitched forward and crashed nose-first with a sickening crunch on the landing zone... |
| 17 Jun 2013 - 1:47pm | Marines Resume Live Fire Exercise On Japan’s Hokkaido Island Amid Protest | Japan Daily Press | The United States Marines, whose live fire exercise was stopped on Tuesday last week because of one misaligned howitzer shell landing out of the exercise area in Hokkaido, have restarted their live ammunition drills amidst protests from residents of the area. Before the US forces – originally based in Okinawa – resumed their drills in the afternoon, the governments of Hokkaido and four other towns affected by the drill made their protests known to the Defense Ministry’s Hokkaido bureau... |
| 17 Jun 2013 - 1:46pm | Marine Platoon Works With Jordanian Armed Forces | U.S. Department of Defense | AL QUWEIRA, Jordan, June 14, 2013 – Marines of the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit’s amphibious assault vehicle platoon had its first bilateral training event of Exercise Eager Lion 2013 here June 12, conducting a live-fire shoot in their AAVs with members of the Jordanian armed forces in their own light armored mechanized vehicles... |
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1888 – Marines landed in Korea and marched 25 miles to protect the Seoul Legation.
Related Articles: The March From Chemulpo To Seoul, Korea By H.C. Reisinger Marine Corps Gazette (June 1929)
Historic Leatherneck Magazine Covers
Leatherneck Staff Artist, Technical Sergeant Robert Fleischauer, felt that our July cover should be commemorative of the Fourth of July. Since the members of the missile units are probably the Corps' best rocketeers, he picked them to perform a standard Fourth of July action. Whether or not the "Honest Johnny" is useful as a combat piece is a matter for debate, but you can't beat it for morale." [July 1957.]
“The Join Up on the Nick” by Major Alex Durr, USMCR, a member of the History Division, Marine Corps University, Quantico, Va.
Hospitalman Daniel T. Bobic, assigned to Headquarters and Service Company, 3d Battalion, Second Marine Regiment, rappelled at the Jungle Warfare Training Center in Okinawa, Japan, in late April, 2002.
The oldest post of the Marine Corps, Washington, DC, is celebrating 200 years of excellence. Posed near the Barracks main gate were members of the official Color Guard of the United States Marine Corps (left to right): LCpl Joseph N. Keough, rifleman; Sgt Blake L. Richardson, Color Sergeant of the Marine Corps; Cpl Gerardo A. Guajardo, organizational color bearer; and LCpl Gregory A. Serwo, rifleman.
GySgt Verlando Frazier, East Coast Food Service Management Team, looked ready to dig into some of the new items included in MREs.
This photo by Sgt Earnie Grafton of Marines from Fox Co., 2/4 shows varied emotions as they greeted the coalition forces outside Kuwait city.
A fleet of trucks was needed to transport Dr. Felix de Weldon’s original model of the Iwo Jima flag-raising statue from the sculptor’s home in Newport, R.I., to the grounds of the Marine Military Academy at Harlingen, Texas. After the statue’s arrival, a nearly around-the-clock effort by skilled workmen was required in order to have the memorial reassembled and ready for dedication ceremonies on April 16, 1982.
In April this year (1981), two squadrons of AV-8A “Harriers” sailed for the Mediterranean aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Nassau. Purpose of the cruise was to demonstrate the Navy/Marine Corps team’s capability to augment naval forces in any area of the World on short notice and to provide at-sea training for Marine Harrier pilots.
The cover of Leatherneck’s Bicentennial issue is an oil painting by the late Colonel Donald L. Dickson, USMCR. The painting depicts General George Washington’s Colonial troops at Gadsby’s Tavern in Alexandria, Va., during the French and Indian War.
Sightseeing tours for the men of the Marine Barracks, San Juan, Puerto Rico, include a trip to the El Morro Fortress. San Juan is now retired as a Post of the Corps.
The Marines in Vietnam have found that the programs which work best are those which operate close to the people. Our July cover is a mixed media (acrylic and charcoal) by Art Editor James L. Hopewell. It catches the spirit of Marines who enjoy their relationship with the Vietnamese around them.
In Naples, Italy, Marines are responsible for the internal security of the Headquarters of NATO’s Southern European Command, while the elite Carabinieri Corpa provides external security. PFC Robert M. Mallard’s NATO shield was admired by a Carabiniere as the two men prepared to take up their side-by-side posts at the entrance of the imposing NATO Headquarters, which appears in the background of this cover.
"We've Fought In Every Clime And Place": Stamping out the Caco Insurrection in the Republic d' Haiti.
Marine patrol fired on while fording the Coco River.
FROM OUR ARCHIVES: U.S. Marines And Miskito Indians: The Rio Coco Patrol Of 1928, published in the Marine Corps Gazette, November 1996.
Marine patrol fired on while fording the Coco River.
FROM OUR ARCHIVES: U.S. Marines And Miskito Indians: The Rio Coco Patrol Of 1928, published in the Marine Corps Gazette, November 1996.
January 2002: The Marines engraved another mark in the rich history of the Corps when they came from more than 400 miles offshore to establish a forward operating base south of Kandahar in the war on terrorism. The Marine CH-46 helicopter on the cover, photographed by PH1(AW/SW) Greg Messier, USN, fought in the desert sand to land and resupply Marines such as the ones (inset) photographed by Sgt Joseph R. Chenelly.
January 2001: This firefight during the Frozen Chosin Reservoir Campaign of 1950 was painted by “Chosin Few” veteran Jack Cannon, who served with Company B, 1st Battalion, Seventh Marine Regiment and resides in the warmer climes of New Mexico. The cover was part of Leatherneck’s 50th anniversary salute to the Korean War veterans.
January 1992: This cover photograph of runners during Marine Corps Marathon XVI in Washington, D.C., was photographed by Sgt Deirdre Hallett.
January 1991: This month’s cover by Ross Simpson captures the Marines’ waiting-but-ready posture in the Middle East.
January 1982: Participants in the Sixth Annual Marine Corps Marathon presented a colorful spectacle as they began the 26-mile, 385-yard run in Washington, D.C., November 1, 1981. The cover photo, by Tom Bartlett, was taken from a bridge overlooking Highway 50 about a half-mile from the starting line.
January 1981: Nearly 7,800 runners participated in the Fifth Annual Marine Corps Marathon held in northern Virginia and Washington, D.C. The oldest finisher was 78; the youngest was 10. Leatherneck staffer Ron Lunn pre-positioned himself near the Nation’s Capitol to photograph runners during their 14th mile of the 26-mile, 385-yard course.
January 1972: This month’s cover, by Marine Combat Artist Peter Gish, shows members of the New Corps sightseeing in the Old World. While on liberty in Athens, Greece, the 3d Bn, Eighth Marines, were able to tour the Erektheon Porch and Cariatides. The water color is from the U.S. Marine Corps Combat Art collection.
Originally Published December 1983 -- Something tells us that we could date the cover without knowing when it was published.
Originally Published December 1972 -- We're not sure what's more interesting, Santa or the old style gas pump.
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