Leatherneck—Magazine of the Marines, Since 1917
This Month's Features
Posted on August 14, 2026
By: Kipp Hanley
It was Thanksgiving in 1972, and the Quantico football team was flying back from Cincinnati, Ohio, after trouncing the Xavier Musketeers 34-0.While approaching the runway at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Va., the flight crew of another aircraft in the airspace...
Posted on August 14, 2026
By: Kayla Workman
For some people, Sept. 11, 2001, has become a blur of distant news footage and historical footnotes. But for the Marines who stood in the dust of the Pentagon’s west wing after the attack, it wasn’t history yet, it was...
Posted on August 14, 2026
By: Kyle Watts
INTRODUCTION It’s spring 2026 near Richmond, Va. Everyone sits around the kitchen table. Most of us coming on duty arrived before dawn, swapping our gear on the trucks with the firefighters ending their shift. Now, those coming on and those...
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Posted on August 14, 2026
By: Kipp Hanley
It was Thanksgiving in 1972, and the Quantico football team was flying back from Cincinnati, Ohio, after trouncing the Xavier Musketeers 34-0.While approaching the runway...
Posted on August 15, 2025
By: Kipp Hanley
In the fall of 1972, First Lieutenant Henry N. Pilger was 24 years old, a newly minted Marine Corps aviator, husband and first-time father. Known...
Posted on June 15, 2025
By: Kipp Hanley
Bill Beach could always shoot a rifle. As a Depression-era child, the Kentucky native could light a matchstick from 100 yards out with his .22....
Posted on January 15, 2025
By: Kipp Hanley and Col Chris Tavuchis, USMC (Ret)
With the outbreak of World War II in the Pacific and the growth of the San Francisco Bay area military infrastructure, the United States Marine...
Posted on November 15, 2024
By: Kipp Hanley
Staff Sergeant Harry Harth’s remarkable, pain-filled journey back to being a Reconnaissance Marine has come to a storybook conclusion. On Sept. 25, 2022, Harth fell...
Posted on June 15, 2024
By: Kipp Hanley
In 1961, in the sleepy town of Marshalls Creek, Pa., everybody knew the Huffmans. Unfortunately for Joel Huffman, the town was also familiar with his...
Posted on February 15, 2024
By: Kipp Hanley
By the time Captain Riley Tejcek was 7 years old, her father, John, knew he was raising a tough kid. Tejcek sported a Power Rangers...
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