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...
All Feature Articles
Posted on March 15, 2025
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...
Posted on March 15, 2025
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...
Posted on March 15, 2025
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...
Posted on February 15, 2025
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...
Posted on February 15, 2025
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...
Posted on February 15, 2025
By: Col Dwight Sullivan, USMCR (Ret)
Two men lay prone in the Maryland countryside, shouldering Springfield rifles. Each fired a spotting round at a target 200 yards away. The younger man,...
Posted on February 7, 2025
By: Cyril J. O'Brien
Editor's note: This article originally appeared in the April 2005 issue of Leatherneck Magazine. In recognition of Black History Month, Leatherneck is re-publishing the story....
Posted on January 20, 2025
By: Kyle Watts
Editor's note: This story originally ran in the April 2017 issue of Leatherneck Magazine. On Jan. 20, 2017, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts administered...
Posted on January 15, 2025
By: Sgt Lindley S. Allen, USMC
A secret agent can’t win a war all by himself but Archibald Gillespie tried to do it. He was a Marine. The horseman knew he...
Posted on January 15, 2025
Executive Editor’s note: We bring you this article to mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima, considered one of the Marine Corps’...
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 December 15, 2024
By: Karl Schuon and Tom Bartlett
Executive Editor’s note: Fifty years ago, Leatherneck began looking ahead to the Marine Corps’ 200th Birthday, and started a series in the magazine called Giants...
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