CAMP LEATHERNECK, Helmand Province, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan —U.S. Marines and Afghan soldiers and police launched a major operation in central Helmand Province today as forces from Marine Expeditionary Brigade-Afghanistan (Task Force Leatherneck) and Afghan national security forces moved into towns and villages along the Helmand River valley in an effort to secure the local population from the threat of Taliban and other insurgent intimidation and violence.
Nearly 4,000 Marines and sailors from Regimental Combat... [Read More]
CAMP AL TAQADDUM, Iraq —On May 2, 2009, then Staff Sgt. Jason Eckman was combat-meritoriously promoted to the rank of gunnery sergeant, becoming one of the few Marines that are ever bestowed with the rare honor of being combat-meritoriously promoted to such a prestigious rank.
A meritorious promotion in the Marine Corps is an irregular promotion that allows particular Marines who stand out above their peers to compete against each other on a board of more senior Marines for a small number of predetermined slots to their next rank.... [Read More]
HILO, Hawaii —There are few times in our lives that we meet someone who truly inspires us to be better. They’re the different ones. Men and women who live their lives on their own terms; brash and stubborn, but wise and interesting. On June 11, I walked through the house of such a man. I met his wife, met his friends, saw how he lived. I felt changed and inspired to be better, not just as a Marine but on a much deeper and rarer level, as a man. My only regret was…. It was too late to meet him.
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