Marines
Marine Nominated to Head USNA
LtGen Michael Borgschulte Marine 3-Star to Lead Naval Academy, Davids Heading to OPNAV Staff Mallory Shelbourne A Marine Corps officer is in line to lead the U.S. Naval Academy for the first time in its 180-year history, USNI News has learned. Lt. Gen. Michael Borgschulte, who is currently the Marine Corps deputy commandant for manpower […]
Marine Recognized By Airline CEO
Japanese airline CEO thanks Marine for subduing unruly passenger on flight to Texas By JUAN KING The CEO of All Nippon Airways recently visited Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni — south of Hiroshima, Japan — to thank a U.S. Marine for intervening during an in-flight disturbance. Shinichi Inoue, the airline’s chief executive, presented a certificate […]
Sgt Maj of the USMC shoves his foot square in his mouth
There are few photos of soldiers that are as instantly recognizable as Audie Murphy wearing the coat full of medals he earned for his legendary service during World War II. Murphy’s exploits in earning ours and allied nations’ highest honors were so over the top that they made a movie about it. Of course, the […]
Better late than never
A former Marine Raider who lied about his age to get into WWII wants a birthday card for his 100th. Frank S. Wright has lived a life. At 16, as World War II raged, he lied about his age and joined the Marine Corps, entering into the ranks of legends as a Marine Raider […]
CEO and Marine Fred Smith, 80, died Saturday
Classic bit of urban legend: student submits a thesis with a business plan to set up package delivery on a hub-and-spoke system with guaranteed fast delivery – and the professor rejects the concept as unworkable and fails the student’s paper. The student founds FedEx and becomes a billionaire. We, actually Fred Smith DID submit his […]
Monday Shorts
A raft of little ones today: Remember the CIA analyst, Asif Rahman, who was indicted last November for sending Israeli plans and other classified stuff out on Telegram t0 unauthorized recipients? Asif William Rahman, 34, will be spending more than three years in jail for giving Top Secret national defense information to unauthorized viewers, according […]
Marine scores first combined win in Marine competition since 1959
Marine Staff Sgt. Payton Garcia (a fuel specialist!) matched a 66-year-old Marine Corps marksmanship record by taking the overall first prize in the Marine Corps Championships – in Pistol, Rifle, and Multi-Gun events with the highest overall score.. “We were curious about that during the actual conduct of the match, and we dug through all of […]
Hegseth’s body man’s qualifications questioned
SECDEF Hegseth’s office is in the midst of a couple of scandals. We talked recently about his troubles with using the app Signal for potentially sensitive information, but there’s also an IG investigation in leaks to the media. This has led to a few people in Hegseth’s inner circle being fired or reassigned. Of those […]
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