Leatherneck—Magazine of the Marines, Since 1917
This Month's Features
Posted on October 15, 2026
By: Kayla Workman
There is a distinct gravity that commands the air around a U.S. Marine Corps memorial.Time seems to slow its heavy march. Voices drop to a murmur, and strangers fall into a kind of synchronized silence. Some stand still before the...
Posted on October 15, 2026
By: LtCol Brad Anderson, USMC (Ret) and Katie Cashwell
While locked at the position of attention, the Crucible completed, standing in formation sweaty, sandy, exhausted and hungry yet beaming with pride, few Marines can forget the first time they sang “The Marines’ Hymn.” After weeks enduring hard training, long...
Posted on October 15, 2026
By: Kyle Watts
In October 2021, brothers Gerry and Rudy Gonzalez stood watching in rapt attention the men surrounding them. Many years younger than the rest, the brothers captured the moment on film as the Vietnam War veterans solemnly performed a ceremony of...
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Posted on October 15, 2025
By: Kyle Watts
In July 2005, the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) put to sea from California with Battalion Landing Team (BLT) 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines, embarked. The...
Posted on October 15, 2025
By: LtCol Brad Anderson, USMC (Ret), and Katie Cashwell
On Nov. 10 across the globe each year, Marines in every clime and place don dress blues with freshly mounted medals and slip on high-gloss...
Posted on October 15, 2025
By: Amy R. Peacock
In March 1942, just months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the Marine Corps Chevron published a short but powerful piece titled “My Rifle: The...
Posted on September 15, 2025
By: Maj Clinton A. Culp, USMC (Ret)
From the Leatherneck Archives: March 2015 Editor’s note: The following article, written by the commander of Weapons Company, pro-vides a firsthand account of 3rd Battalion, 6th...
Posted on September 15, 2025
Team Rubicon has made a name for itself by leading from the front and being on the ground in some of the world’s largest and...
Posted on September 15, 2025
By: Kyle Watts
Author’s note: By the time I left active duty in 2013, I knew the name “Abbate.” Sergeant Matthew Abbate posthumously received the Navy Cross in...
Posted on August 15, 2025
By: Kyle Watts
The Iraq war didn’t go as planned for Jerod Murphy, but it started out the way any Marine might have hoped. He was there at...
Posted on August 15, 2025
By: R. R. Keene
From the Leatherneck Archives: April 1991 It was all but over in 100 hours. Saddam Hussein, in his bunker, still babbled something about his...
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 July 18, 2025
By: Sam Lichtman
The date, April 30, 1967. The place, a few miles northwest of Khe Sanh. The 2nd and 3rd Battalions of the 3rd Marine Division are...
Posted on July 18, 2025
By: Sam Lichtman
Technical Data Weight: 6 lbs. 12 oz. w/ empty magazine Overall Length: 38 ½” Barrel Length: 20” Chambering: 5.56×45 mm M193 Feed System: 20-round detachable...
Posted on July 15, 2025
By: Sam Lichtman
For Colonel Stuart W. Glenn, it’s an opportunity to test his skills in military strategy at the Commandant’s Cup Wargaming Tournament finals. For Lance Corporal...
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