Marine Corps
Back to Business
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Marine drill instructor Charles “Chuck” Taliano Jr. appeared in the Marine Corps’ iconic 1970 recruiting poster. The new Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, Troy Black, is in town. And you still do not get a rose garden. Nor can you run around with your hands in your pockets. From the article: Black told Marine Corps […]
Happy Birthday, Jarheads!
Today is the US Marine Corps’ real (and official) birthday, established on July 11, 1798. https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2019/07/10/lt-gen-david-h-berger-will-become-commandant-thursday-during-the-corps-other-birthday/ The Marines’ new commandant is LtGen David Berger. So Happy Birthday, GIrines, and many, many more to come.
Trump outmaneuvers the media on the 4th
Our own Poetrooper is back, this time with some thoughts about the 4 July festivities and the reception it received. Its as if there were two 4ths, one Americans saw and another, those ‘nattering nabobs of negativity’ claim to have witnessed. Time to step back and give Poe the podium. Poetrooper I got an email […]
Marines in the Pacific
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Marines with Charlie Company, Battalion Landing Team, 1st Battalion, 4th Marines, run toward security positions during a live-fire range as part of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit’s simulated Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations, Camp Schwab, Okinawa, Japan, March 13, 2019. (Gunnery Sgt. T. T. Parish/Marine Corps) The Marine Corps has put in a request for funding […]
Marine who pissed on dead Taliban wins in court
Just in case some of our readers need a “refreshing” course in how to best win the hearts and minds of our enemy: A military court has dismissed charges against a former Marine scout sniper who pleaded guilty to urinating on Taliban corpses, finding that former Commandant Gen. James Amos had illegally interfered […]
Marine War Veteran Sucker-Punched
Several news outlets carried this story yesterday and today, although it happened on April 24, 2019. Veteran Speaks Out After Being Sucker Punched (WSVN Channel 7) Marine Veteran Attacked by Drunken Men (KTUU Channel 2) A Marine, who they only identified as “Mitch,” was out dining at a restaurant when a group of rowdy […]
Marine Corps News
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The Marine Corps recently selected the Nightforce Advanced Tactical Riflescope for its newest sniper rifle the Mk 17 Mod 3. (Photo: Kristen Murphy/Marine Corps) In the world of shoot-shoot-bang-bang, upgrading equipment may be a constant process. The Marines have requested, and are getting, a new rifle with upgraded field optical equipment as well as iron […]
Gender-Integrated Training at Parris Island
The gender-integrated approach to recruit training for Marines is not having the numbers of candidates that had previously been hoped for. https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2019/05/03/incoming-commandant-open-another-gender-integrated-boot-camp-class-in-2020/ Per the article: The first ever gender-integrated Marine boot camp class graduated on March 29, aboard the Parris Island, South Carolina recruit depot. However, Marine officials have been murky about a re-occurrence of […]
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