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November 2009

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    FEATURES

  • 16 The Commandant’s Birthday Message
    Happy 234th Birthday to all Marines, everywhere.
    Read the message and watch the video.
  • 18 Vietnam: Last Full Measure of Devotion: Extraction of Team “Box Score,” 16 February 1968
    By Dick Camp
    Caught in the middle of the devastating fire of two NVA units, Marine recon team Box Score could not escape.

  • 24 The United States Marine Corps Historical Company: Celebrating the Corps
    By the United States Marine Corps Historical Company
    Preserving and presenting the Corps’ history, this active group “takes history from behind glass.”

  • 30 The War on Terror
    Edited by R. R. Keene
    The 2d MEB marks 100 days in Afghanistan, while the “Wolfpack” of 3d LAR Bn roam the Iraqi desert building security for the emerging government of Iraq.

  • 40 With Special Operations Marines in Afghanistan
    By Stewart Nusbaumer
    Leathernecks of Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command are “smack in the middle” of some of the nastiest regions of Afghanistan, teaching, training and treating.

  • 46 How Do You Rate?
    Compiled by R. R. Keene
    Test your Corps knowledge and see how you “shoot” on the trivia range.

  • 52 “Semper Fidelis”: Witness to Its Meaning
    By Col W. Hays Parks, USMCR (Ret)
    The Corps goes all out to honor the memory of a Vietnam War casualty whose remains have yet to come home.

  • 54 Winning Hearts and Minds With the Spirit of America
    By Karen Karl
    One man and his organization are making a difference in the war on terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  • 58 Elite-to-Elite Makes Higher Education Easier
    By Cpl Katie Densmore
    North Carolina veterans get “a leg up,” making transition to college much easier.

  • 60 Corps Album
    Edited by Nancy Lee White Hoffman
    Photos from the bottom of readers’ footlockers offer a look into the Corps’ history.

INSIDE ISSUE

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Marines stationed in Peking and Tient­sin, China, and Iceland wore the “Mongolian p***-cutter” made of lamb’s wool or, reputedly, cat’s fur.(Courtesy of the National Museum of the Marine Corps)

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Petty Officer First Class Adrian Trollip, a Seabee builder assigned to NMCB-5, home-based at Port Hueneme, Calif., helps construct the MEB-Afghani­stan combat operations center at Camp Leatherneck.
(Photo by Cpl Aaron Rooks)

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Marine veteran Wesley I. Slagle sent us this 1922 photograph of his father, John W. Slagle, taken while he was serving in the Dominican Republic with the Marine Corps Expeditionary Force during the “Banana Wars.” John Slagle also served in USS Utah and USS St. Louis.
(Photo courtesy of Marine Veteran Wesley I. Slagle)

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