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SUMMERVILLE, S.C. – Outskirts Press has released a third historical fiction novel by journalist and author Alan Ables, one of our affiliate combat correspondents. “My readers told me they wanted more. FLASHBACK, The Confederate’s Lost Templar Treasure, is a sequel to my last time travel adventure, CODE DAY ZERO: USS Read more…

Lt. Gen. Stacy Clardy, a career infantry officer who ran community relations at Headquarters Marine Corps in the late 1990s, is headed for Okinawa to command the Third Marine Expeditionary Force.

Longtime CC George Hijar, Master Gunnery Sergeant, USMC (Ret) told us that his “Share the Legacy” presentation for the graduating new Marines at Parris Island, S.C was a little different this time. “For the first time in the eight years I’ve been doing this, I shared my Marine Corps’ experiences Read more…

Gunnery Sgt. T. T. Parrish, deployed aboard USS BOXER with the 11th MEU, snagged a silhouetted Osprey image in the Philippine Sea last month. The aircraft is part of the Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 262 inventory.

One of Lance Cpl. Rhita Daniels’ photos last month caught 1st Battalion, 1st Marines trudging through a simulated chemical attack at Camp Pendelton.

Cpl Matthew Teutsh grabbed a nice Osprey shot while steaming with the 11th MEU in the Eastern Pacific. The bird belongs to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 163. Teutsh’s work represents just some of the imagery featured on www.usmc.mil.

First lieutenant James Mercure is requesting your personal stories from combat within the legacy 43XX, 46XX Occ field to help train our Marines (and future Marines) for combat and as a forcing function/evidence for an additional formal combat training requirement for Marines in the 45XX field before a deployment. Questionnaire is here.

In the legacy 43XX, 46XX MOSs, there was often a significant disparity between training before a deployment and the expectations of the Marine while deployed i.e. the Marines were not prepared prior to a deployment and some were labeled incompetent because they were not properly trained or integrated with the unit prior to deploying. Some Marines also adapted to their environment and were successful operating under fire based on their own initiative, intuition and instinct.  This is a success story for that Marine, but it should not be on the individual to “figure it out” when lives are on the line.  Also, a firefight should not be the first occasion a Marine thinks about what to grab; their rifle or camera?

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We want to congratulate our Marines for placing in the inaugural Military Visual Awards (MVA) , an independent photography competition for military photographers. It is not affiliated with the Department of Defense. They are: Sgt Holly Pernel (II MEF) won 2nd place News photo category. Cpl Danny Gonzalez (13th MEU) Read more…