Foreword

Dear Editor,
Let me applaud you for launching an ezine. You are embarking on yet another fine aspect to your site - one which already provides a wealth of interesting content to the Marine community worldwide.

I can assure your readers that this publication will require a tremendous amount of your time and attention but will be well worth the labor in what it provides to them.

News about Marines, especially credible and positive news, is critical to the moral and motivation of Marines and their loved ones. It allows the facts of life in and around the Corps to be shared in real time, an asset those far from home appreciate dearly.

So congratulations again and I wish you the best of luck and am sending my prayers for its success,

Meriwether Ball, President/CEO/Editor
Corps Stories, Inc.
Ordinary Marines. Extraordinary Lives. 

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Dear Jane

Just a few thoughts in passing:

As a Christian, will you still, today, proudly stand up and tell the world that, not only are you a Socialist, but that..."you would pray on your knees, that we would someday become Communist"? If not, why?

You established that U.S. servicemen are war criminals. Was Henry Fonda a war criminal? Was John Kennedy?

By his own testimony, John Kerry participated in war crimes and atrocities. Why did you give him and his supporters millions of dollars during the presidential campaign?... Read More

Traditional horns reinstated for bugle calls at 'Oldest Post of the Corps'

Morning colors started the day on a historical note here at Marine Barracks Washington, Jan. 19. Sgt. Clint Owens of Arlington, Texas rang the bell and sounded the familiar tune using a valveless bugle - the first time the United States Marine Drum and Bugle Corps has used this traditional type of horn since after the Korean War... Read More

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3rd Light Armor Reconnaissance Battalion is closing in on a year of training comprised of hundreds of field ops, classroom hours, PT, and spectacular live fire quals. It is finally our time.

For 3rd LAR, this will be the third trip to the sandbox. The rub? This time around the Wolf Pack has a boot-to-veteran ratio of about 3 to 1. In other words, we’re comprised of mostly all new guys; myself included... Read More

From The World To OZ

From the time I graduated boot camp, my MOS. was a "supply man”. My training however in the warehouses of 22 area of Camp Pendleton was sweeping floor's picking up butts, and other trash. Eight hours a day, excluding the physical fitness training that we had each morning... Read More

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Tammy's Bracelet

A Combined Action Platoon was a squad of Marines who were assigned to defend a group of small South Vietnamese villages. Under ideal circumstances, a squad consisted of 14 Marines and a Navy corpsman. Often, though, CAPs operated short-handed... Read More

The POW/MIA Corner

Welcome to the first installment of the POW/MIA Corner here at Leatherneck EZine. To date, there are still approximately 78,800 unaccounted for from WW II; 8,100 from the Korean War and 1800 are still unaccounted for from the Vietnam War. Not to mention Commander Scott Speicher, USN from Gulf War I and Sgt. Keith “Matthew” Maupin, USA (son of a Vietnam Era US Marine) captured April 9, 2004 in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Additionally, of the 58,100 + names on the Vietnam Wall, 14, 837 are US Marines and some 300 of them are still MIA... Read More

Marine Wife Shares Experience and Sage Advice

My husband served as a section leader for a TOW Section 2nd Battalion 23rd Marine Corps Reserve Regiment. He is now a Staff Sergeant serving as a Platoon Commander with the 24th Marines.

Now I had been a former Active Duty Army wife, from my previous marriage, during Desert Storm, I have more than a little experience in what to expect with a spouse being deployed. In addition I am a lot older than most the wives in my Marine husband’s unit... Read More

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