On Duty: December 2 – December 8
Marines with 2d Low Altitude Air Defense Battalion cross the flight line to their KC-130J Hercules beginning their trip to Quantico, Va., to visit the National Museum of the Marine Corps, Dec. 2, 2011.
LCpl Glen E. Santy
Maritime raid force Marines fast-rope from a CH-46E Sea Knight onto the amphibious transport dock USS New Orleans (LPD-18), Dec. 2, 2011.
Cpl Ryan Carpenter
LCpl Ewen DeWitt, a machine-gunner with Weapons Company, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, Second Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, mounts an M-2 .50-caliber machine gun on top of an Internally Transportable Vehicle during the Defense of the Amphibious Task Force Naval Qualification Exercise aboard USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7), Dec. 3, 2011.
LCpl Michael Petersheim
GySgt Joshua D. Wallace fires an M-240 machine gun from a CH-46E Sea Knight, Dec. 4, 2011. Wallace serves with the 11th MEU’s aviation combat element, Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 268 (Reinforced).
Cpl Gene A. Ainsworth III
A 5.56 mm shell casing ejects from a Marine's rifle during BLT 3/1's live-fire exercise aboard USS Pearl Harbor (LSD-52), Dec. 5, 2011.
Cpl Tommy Huynh
LCpl Samuel A. Shehata practices bayonet fighting techniques during martial arts training aboard USS Makin Island (LHD-8), Dec. 5, 2011.
Cpl Gene A. Ainsworth III
Marines with Company B, BLT 1/2, 24th MEU conduct rifle movement drills during sustainment training aboard the USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7), Dec. 6, 2011.
LCpl Michael Petersheim
SSgt Dave J. Washington reads the names of sunken ships during a 70th anniversary commemoration ceremony of the attack on Pearl Harbor aboard USS Pearl Harbor (LSD-52), Dec. 7, 2011.
Cpl Tommy Huynh
Marines with the 11th MEU and sailors aboard USS Pearl Harbor (LSD-52) stand in formation during a 70th anniversary commemoration ceremony of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 2011.
Cpl Tommy Huynh
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"On The Land As On The Sea": The "Bon Homme Richard" encounters the "Serapis," September 23, 1779.
"We Fight Our Country's Battles": The fall of Fort Fisher, North Carolina, in 1865.
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“To The Shores Of Tripoli”: Storming the fortifications at Derne, Tripoli, 1805.
"From The Halls Of Montezuma": The assault on Chapultepec Castle--Mexico City, 1847
Marine patrol fired on while fording the Coco River.
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.
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