This Month's Features
By: Kyle Watts
Marine Air Traffic Controllers (ATCs) represent a small slice of the active-duty component. Less than 1,000 of these Marines exist in the service today, with even fewer operating in capacities actually controlling aircraft. Though small in number, these Marines perform...
By: Briesa Koch
As a tradition, aircraft art in the Armed Forces has been encouraged by some branches while being heavily regulated in others. And though there is currently a massive resurgence of interest in aircraft art, which has become more widespread within...
By: Ed Nevgloski
Executive Editor’s note: This article explores the origins and inception of the Marine gunner and is the cornerstone of an upcoming series in Leatherneck tracing its often-mistaken evolution. Written using official Marine Corps history, it draws extensively from the documents...
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By: Dr. Edward T. Nevgloski, Ph.D.
On Oct. 14, 1962, photographic evidence produced by an American U-2 high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft revealed the construction of Soviet medium-range nuclear ballistic missile sites in...
By: Kyle Watts
By Kyle Watts The U.S. Air Force C-17 began its final descent in preparation for landing. Corporal Von Straight sat packed in among the 25...
By: Col Mary H. Reinwald, USMC (Ret)
Most Marines know that the fabric of our Corps is woven from throughout the nation. Marines join from every state and even from foreign countries,...
By: Sam Lichtman
“My predecessor told me … ‘we don’t have lightsabers and hover tanks in the basement here, but it’s right down the road.’ ” —Colonel Frederick...
By: Kyle Watts
This year marks several significant milestones in the legacy of “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band. July 11 marks the band’s 225th anniversary, and...
By: SSgt Norman Miller, USMC
From the Leatherneck Archives: Feb. 15, 1945, Pacific Edition A shrieking Marine-piloted Corsair dived on its Marshall Island target. Its bombs released, smoke and dust shrouding the atoll....
By: Kyle Watts
In late September 1968, Bob Skeels stepped off a plane at Quang Tri Combat Base. The aircraft delivered three of Bob’s friends to Vietnam alongside...
By: Kyle Watts
Revealing the Lasting Impact of Corporal Jason Dunham In 2003, film producer and director David Kniess caught a red-eye flight from California, bound for the...
By: Nancy S. Lichtman
Marines Walk from East Coast to West Coast To Raise Awareness, Money for MIA Recovery Early in 2020, Sergeant Major Justin LeHew, USMC (Ret) had...
By: Kyle Watts
On Saturday, Oct. 21, 1967, David Jensen was working at a caterer’s office in Hales Corners, Wis. As the 18-year-old prepared orders for the coming...
By: Sam Lichtman
Capt Jeremy Nelson fires the Beretta M9 during a weapons marksmanship course at Camp Leatherneck, Afghanistan, Oct. 4, 2013. (Photo by Sgt Bobby J. Yarbrough,...
By: By Lt Weldon James, USMC
Somewhere out in the Pacific is a young Marine who need not be there. He could have been home for Christmas, the next, and the...
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