On Duty: January 20 - January 26
A Marine with Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 16 performs pull-ups to warm up before physical training aboard Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, Jan. 20, 2012. Ten sergeants with MALS-16 took part in a weekly PT session with SgtMaj Jean-Paul Courville, the squadron sergeant major.
PFC Christopher Johns
SgtMaj Jean-Paul Courville, the squadron sergeant major with Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 16, demonstrates plyometric push-ups aboard Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, Jan. 20, 2012.
PFC Christopher Johns
Japanese soldiers with the Western Army Infantry Regiment, Japanese Ground Self Defense Force, conduct amphibious training at Naval Amphibious Base Coronado, Jan. 22, 2012.
Cpl John Robbart III
Marines with Company F, 2d Battalion, Fourth Marine Regiment, patrol through the desert during the opening phase of Operation Double Check, Musa Qal'eh district, Helmand province, Afghanistan.
Cpl Tommy Bellegarde
Marines from 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, I Marine Expeditionary Force, salute during the national anthem at the opening ceremony of Exercise Iron Fist 2012 aboard Camp Pendleton, Calif., Jan. 23, 2012. The opening ceremony begins the bilateral training exercise with the Japanese Ground Self Defense Force.
LCpl Timothy Childers
Commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen James Amos, presented 12 Marines with the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal at the 2011 Commandant of the Marine Corps Combined Awards Program at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Va., Jan. 24, 2012.
Sgt Christopher Zahn
Cpl Nathan Davidson, a fire team leader with Co F, 2/4, patrols through an alleyway in a residential area during the opening phase of Operation Double Check, Musa Qal'eh district, Helmand province, Afghanistan.
Cpl Tommy Bellegarde
LCpl Adam Ridgeway, a Chicago native and an infantryman with Echo Co, 2/4, provides security for his fellow Marines as the sun begins to set during Operation Double Check, Musa Qal'eh district, Helmand province, Afghanistan.
Sgt Earnest J. Barnes
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"From Dawn To Setting Sun": Marine Occupation in Defense of Shanghai, March, 1927.
"Our Flag's Unfurled To Every Breeze": Punitive Expedition against Qhallah Battoo, February, 1832.
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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.
"First To Fight For Right And Freedom": The Marine expedition in Cuba in June, 1898.
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Marine patrol fired on while fording the Coco River.
“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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