This Month's Features
By: MSgt Jeff Dacus, USMCR (Ret)
By June 15, 1944, the Central Pacific drive of the United States had inexorably pushed the Japanese back toward their homeland. Throughout the methodical island-hopping campaign, the Japanese had put up stiff resistance, fighting furiously on the sea, on land,...
By: Heather A. Warfield, Ph.D.
A shuttle van rolled to a stop across the street from the Belleau Town Hall. Out of the side door emerged an elderly gentleman, hunched over, his physical frame sharply contrasted by the fierce resolve propelling him forward. Protruding from...
By: Chip Reid
Executive Editor’s note: In 2003, NBC News journalist Chip Reid embedded with 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines during the opening days of OIF. He spent six weeks living with the Marines and telling their stories to TV audiences back home. He...
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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...
By: Kyle Watts
True disciples, spreading the belt-fed gospel with the enemy. (USMC photos) In September of 2017, Adam Krick opened Instagram on...
By: By Geoffrey W. Roecker
Private Marvin Elmer Muehl leaned against the steel bulkhead, feeling a shudder of relief as the metal chilled the sweat running down his back. Creature...
By: Kyle Watts
James Stogner received the Navy Cross on April 5, 2019. The ceremony in Polson, Mont., took place on the 52nd anniversary of his heroic actions...
By: Kyle Watts
A dichotomy of perception resounds today, as true as it has for decades. One group has always viewed tattooed Marines as a stigma, a mark...
Featured image: Stephen Peck, CEO of U.S.VETS, at the opening of Veterans One-Stop Service Centers at Patriotic Hall in Los Angeles, Calif., 2014. Stephen J....
By: F. Gerald Downey
By F. Gerald Downey It was late afternoon Dec. 24, 1970, and I stood on the low ground that was to be our night defensive...
By: Jennifer Castro
By Jennifer Castro William L. Hendricks was a major in the Marine Corps Reserve when he established Toys for Tots in 1947. Hendricks worked in...
By: Joel Searls
Philanthropist, Entrepreneur Bob Parsons Turned the Discipline He Learned in the Marine Corps into High-Tech Success By Joel Searls Bob Parsons’ name is synonymous with...
By: Tom Schueman
By Maj Tom Schueman, USMC And Zainullah Zaki Editor’s note: This excerpt from the book “Always Faithful” by Maj Tom Schueman and his translator, Zainullah...
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