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When Sheepdogs Come Home: Veterans Helping Veterans Heal and Thrive

By: Abigail Grysban

Executive Editor’s note: June 27 is PTSD awareness day. We bring you this article to reinforce the importance of speaking openly about PTSD and other...

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Nicaragua 1928: The Rio Coco Patrol

By: Maj Allan C. Bevilacqua, USMC (Ret)

Editor's note: This article was originally published in the September 2016 issue of Leatherneck Magazine. “Due to all the rains, the river is so high...

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Gone But Not Forgotten: Scout Snipers Memorialize a Century of Service

Since 1998, the USMC Scout Sniper Association (SSA) has fervently supported the proud brotherhood of Marine Corps scout snipers. Tom Ferran, a scout sniper and...

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Cheating Death in Vietnam

By: Michael Dan Kellum

Editor’s note: The following is a Leatherneck archives story from May of 2018. We are re-publishing it in recognition of Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage...

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Warbird Review: A List of Legendary Marine Aircraft

By: Barrett Tillman

Executive Editor’s note: We fully realize that it’s a risky maneuver to create a list of the “best of” anything. Not every­thing could make the...

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Alfred A. Cunningham: Father of Marine Corps Aviation

By: Dr. Laurence M. Burke II

Alfred Austell Cunningham is rightly celebrated as the “Father of Marine Corps Aviation.” His arrival at the Navy’s aviation training camp is the birth date...

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Ambush in Haditha: A Footnote from Iraq, 20 Years Later

By: Kyle Watts

Author’s note: To the Marines of MAP 7, thank you for entrusting me with your experiences and allowing me to share them. I hope what...

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U.S. Marines at Guantanamo Bay, 1898: Reconsidering the Birth of the Modern Marine Corps

By: Edward T. Nevgloski, Ph.D.

The month-long battle for Belleau Wood in June 1918 during World War I rightly commands a prom­inent place in Marine Corps history. After all, the...

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Bright Lights, Small City: A Marine's Memory of Vietnam

By: Robert Roth

Executive Editor’s note: I was contacted by Robert Roth, a Marine who served in Vietnam. He sent me an essay he wrote about how he...

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Marine Mindset: The Warfighter Behind the Recruiter

By: Kyle Watts

When I think of a Marine recruiter, I am immediately transported to an unfamiliar couch in a flawless office. Motivational posters adorn the walls in...

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On to Richmond

By: Frank H. Rentfrow

Editor's note: This story originally appeared in the January 1939 issue of Leatherneck Magazine. It was a hot July day in 1862. Aboard the battle-wrecked...

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Rushing Like Tigers: The Marines at Harpers Ferry

By: Mac Caltrider

Executive Editor’s note: This article exemplifies the bravery of a small band of Marines as the U.S. was entering its most turbulent time as a...

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