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Abraham Whipple

From February 17 to April 8, 1776, he commanded the ship during the first Continental Navy-Marine Corps amphibious expedition—the cruise to New Providence, in the Bahamas, to seize essential military supplies from the British garrison at Nassau.

Alberto Díaz, Jr.

Then he was sent to the Naval Medical Regional Clinic, Marine Corps Development and Education Command, Quantico, Virginia, where he served as staff psychiatrist and Clinical Director of the Alcohol Rehabilitation Service.

Boise Airport

Gowen Field Air National Guard Base primarily refers to the military facilities on the south side of the runways, which includes Air National Guard, Army National Guard, and reserve units of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps.

Clandestine HUMINT asset recruiting

Clayton J. Lonetree, a U.S. Marine Sergeant embassy guard in Moscow, was entrapped by a female Soviet officer in 1987.

Cobra II

Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq is a 2006 book written by Michael R. Gordon, chief military correspondent for The New York Times, and Bernard E. Trainor, a retired Marine Corps lieutenant general, which details the behind-the-scenes decision-making leading to the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Defender M

TenCate Defender M is a flame-resistant fabric used by both the United States Army and Marine Corps as the uniform material for ground troops in Iraq and Afghanistan because of new war threats like improvised explosive devices (IEDs).

Gates of Fire

It is taught at West Point, the United States Naval Academy, and at the Marine Corps Basic School at Quantico.

Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign

In the Pacific Theater of World War II, the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, from November 1943 through February 1944, were key strategic operations of the United States Pacific Fleet and Marine Corps in the Central Pacific.

GOC Army Headquarters

The meaning of the reform was to subordinate the ground forces to one ground commander, who is a part of the Joint Staff, by the example of the Israeli Air Force and Navy; and unlike the United States Armed Forces, where operational Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps units and other support units are subordinated to Unified Combatant Commands.

Individual augmentee

Examples include members of the Navy who are temporarily assigned to NASA for astronaut duty, or Navy Hospital Corpsmen who are assigned to Marine Corps units (which do not furnish their own medical personnel).

Joint base

It is a government owned contractor operated (GOCO) site that changed its name from Lima Army Tank Plant to reflect the “jointness” of the facility in working for the Army, Marine Corps and the Navy.

Lieutenant commander

On service khakis and all working uniforms, lieutenant commanders wear a gold oak leaf collar device, similar to the ones worn by a majors in the USAF and Army, and identical to that worn by majors in the Marine Corps.

Marine Corps–Law Enforcement Foundation

Other beneficiaries have included the children of those who died as a result of the bombing of the USS Cole, of the Air Force personnel killed at Khobar Towers, and of the passengers on the Space Shuttle Columbia.

Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center

The organization is centered around a primary customer: the United States federal government, specifically branches of the Department of Defense, the Navy, and the Marine Corps, although it does conduct business with a variety of other government and private organizations.

Operation Steel Pike

Operation Steel Pike was the largest peacetime amphibious landing exercise in history, conducted by the United States Navy and Marine Corps and taking place on the coast of Spain in October to November 1964.

PNS Qasim

In 1974, Marine Corps were disbanded from the services of Pakistan Armed Forces by President, later elected Prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto as the Service branch was were completely failed to achieve any minor or major objectives in the both 1971 Winter War and the Bangladesh Liberation War.

Raising Kaine

During the 2006 US election cycle, RK helped found the "Draft James Webb" movement, an effort to draft Marine Corps veteran Jim Webb to run for US Senate against George Allen.

Robin L. Higgins

Higgins is a 20-year veteran of the Marine Corps, retiring as a lieutenant colonel.

Skate or Die!

Two characters were featured in Skate or Die!: Rodney Recloose, a wild man with a purple mohawk and a Marine Corps tattoo (and a facial resemblance to comedian Rodney Dangerfield) who runs a skateshop in the game, and his son Bionic Lester, an even wilder kid with a green flattop, who you were able to take on in the joust and the downhill jam.

The Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School

In addition, each academic department has at least one faculty member who is a Judge Advocate in the Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps.

United States Armed Forces School of Music

The school's mission is to provide specialized musical training to musicians of the Navy and Marine Corps military bands.

United States Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Airland

The Airland Subcommittee has primary jurisdiction over all issues related to the U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, and U.S. Navy and Marine Corps tactical aviation programs; however, it does not include strategic forces, strategic airlift issues, and special operations programs.

Wallace H. Robinson

He attended Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Virginia, graduating in 1940, with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering, and was commissioned a Marine Corps second lieutenant in June 1940.

Western Museum of Flight

Also on display is a Northrop YF-17 Cobra, a lightweight fighter which was the basis for the heavier Boeing (originally McDonnell-Douglas) F/A-18 Hornet currently used by the United States Navy and Marine Corps.

William H. Lebeau

As a congregational rabbi, he served three communities over a period of 24 years, beginning with two years as a chaplain in the United States Navy and Marine Corps.


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43rd Sustainment Brigade

Operation Restore Hope was declared a success in May 1993 and President Clinton celebrated on the White House lawn with Marine Corps Lieutenant General Robert B. Johnston and other Somalia veterans.

Alfredo Gonzalez

Alfredo Cantu Gonzalez (1946–1968), United States Marine Corps sergeant, posthumous Medal of Honor

ARMA 2: Operation Arrowhead

The U.S. Marine Corps that featured prominently in ARMA 2 are not included in ARMA 2: Operation Arrowhead, instead being replaced with U.S. Army soldiers, wearing the Army Combat Uniform in the Universal Camouflage Pattern.

Barcott

Rye Barcott (born 1979), American writer and United States Marine Corps officer

Craig E. Steidle

His oldest son, Brian Steidle, former Captain in the US Marine Corps, served as a peace monitor in Darfur during the Darfur Conflict and wrote a book with his sister about his experiences, The Devil Came on Horseback, which was turned into a documentary film of the same name that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2007.

Dave Karnes

Having spent 23 years in the Marine Corps infantry, he got a regulation hair cut, put on his Marine Corps camouflage utility uniform and obtained equipment that included rappelling gear.

Davis Filfred

Davis Filfred is also a United States Marine Corps Veteran of the Persian Gulf War (1990–1991).

Dewitt Peck

Peck was born May 29, 1894 in Bakersfield, California and after joining the Marine Corps participated in numerous conflicts, rising to the position of Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps.

Dragon Runner

The original project was funded by the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab in conjunction with Carnegie Mellon University.

Evelyn Farkas

Prior to assuming that position she served for four years on the faculty of the U.S. Marine Corps Command and Staff College, Marine Corps University as assistant professor and then associate professor of international relations.

General Greene

Wallace M. Greene (1907–2003), United States Marine Corps general, Commandant of the Marine Corps

Gyrocam Systems

In addition to Mr. Egner, Gyrocam System’s Board includes two retired Army General Officers, General Leon E. Salomon and General Peter Schoomaker; along with the Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps, General William L. Nyland; former Under Secretary of Defense, Dr. Jacques Gansler; and strategy and investment experts, Peter Rudaizky and Barry Brott.

Halls of Montezuma

"Marines' Hymn", the official hymn of the United States Marine Corps, which starts "From the halls of Montezuma"

Howard V. Lee

In September 1955, he entered the 14th Officer Candidates' Course, Marine Corps Schools, Quantico, Virginia, and upon completing the course the following December, was commissioned a Marine Corps Reserve second lieutenant.

IAI Kfir

The 13 aircraft leased to the U.S. Marine Corps were operated by VMFT-401 at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma.

Jack W. Hill

The issuance of the one millionth Marine Corps service number was a sensation in the media and was reported by several major newspapers, including The New York Times.

Jan C. Huly

After graduating from the Marine Corps Command and Staff College in 1985, Major Huly reported to 2nd Marine Division at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, where he made deployments overseas as an executive officer for battalion and regimental landing teams; and subsequently as Commanding Officer for Battalion Landing Team 1/8.

Jeremiah Halpern

In 1951 Halpern proposed to David Ben-Gurion to re-organise the Israeli commercial and military Marine Corps and to establish a research programme to explore the natural resources of the Red Sea.

Jerzy Wołkowicki

He belonged to higher nobility of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, in 1901 he graduated from a high school in Grodno, and soon afterwards joined the Marine Corps school in Saint Petersburg.

John Estrada

For the 15th Sergeant Major of the United States Marine Corps, see John L. Estrada.

Joint Task Force Lebanon

Task Force 59 personnel, led by Marine Corps Brigadier General Carl Jensen, were the first to arrive in the “joint operation area” (JOA) region on July 16 where DoD assets evacuated 21 American citizens out of Beirut by helicopter on the first day.

José Santiago

José L. Santiago (b. 1960), Puerto Rican sergeant major in the United States Marine Corps

Kenneth Walsh

Kenneth A. Walsh (1916–1998), United States Marine Corps fighter ace in World War II

Lewis C. Lucas

Lewis Clark Lucas (Marietta, Ohio, November 3, 1867 -1939) was an American officer serving in the United States Marine Corps during the Spanish-American War who was one of 23 Marine Corps officers approved to receive the Marine Corps Brevet Medal for bravery.

Marine Corps Air Station Camp Pendleton

The airfield is also known as Munn Field in honor of Lieutenant General John C. "Toby" Munn, the first Marine Aviator to serve as the Commanding General of Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton.

Marine Corps Air-Ground Museum

It housed a wide variety of historic Marine Corps vehicles/tanks (both wheeled and tracked), equipment, artillery pieces and aircraft (both fixed wing (airplanes) and rotary wing (helicopters)) to trace the evolution and significance of the Marine Air-Ground Team.

Marine Doom

In 1996, General Charles C. Krulak, Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps issued a directive to use wargames for improving "Military Thinking and Decision Making Exercises".

Maryland Route 435

MD 435 curves to the east as it passes along the east side of Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium, the home stadium of the Navy Midshipmen football team.

Merrill B. Twining

He had retired from active duty with the Marine Corps on October 31, 1959 and died May 11, 1996 in Fallbrook, California.

Michael J. Williams

He was promoted to major on August 1, 1977 and in July 1978, he was selected to attend the Marine Corps Command and Staff College, Quantico.

National Intelligence Medal for Valor

The medal was first awarded on 14 November 2008, to Marine Corps Lance Corporal James E. Swain, who died 15 November 2004, of wounds received while serving as a Marine Corps intelligence analyst during the Battle of Fallujah in Iraq.

Newt H. Hall

Newt Hamill Hall (Marshville, Texas, January 2, 1873 - Tennessee, May 24, 1939) was an American officer serving in the United States Marine Corps during the Boxer Rebellion who was one of 23 Marine Corps officers approved to receive the Marine Corps Brevet Medal for bravery.

Ocean View

Ocean View, Viet Nam, the northernmost U.S. Marine Corps observation post in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War

Paul Van Riper

Paul K. Van Riper (born 1938), retired Lieutenant General of the United States Marine Corps

Peter Connor

Peter S. Connor, United States Marine Corps staff sergeant posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor

Primary Marksmanship Instructor

A Primary Marksmanship Instructor is a United States Marine Corps specialty (MOS 0931) and acts as an instructor to other Marines on how to precisely fire the M16 rifle used as the standard weapon in the Marine Corps.

Priority Material Office

PMO is dedicated to perform assigned material control and supply support responsibilities for the TRIDENT submarine operating forces assigned to Commander, Submarine Forces (COMSUBFOR), and act as the focal point for logistics support of deployable Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and Military Sealift Command units.

Ray Edwards

Ray K. Edwards, 1923–1942, United States Marine Corps corporal, received a posthumous Silver Star

Robert Dunlap

Robert Hugo Dunlap (1920–2000), United States Marine Corps, World War II Medal of Honor recipient

Robert S. Kapito

Kapito serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Joseph H. Lookstein Ramaz School, is the recipient of 2009 Joseph Wharton Leadership Award and the 2010 Semper Fidelis Award from the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation.

Ronald D. Castille

Following graduation was commissioned an officer in the United States Marine Corps in Vietnam where he served as a platoon commander in 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines.

Stanley G. Benner

After training at the Marine Corps' recruit depot at Parris Island, S.C., he arrived at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on January 21, 1941.

Tarzi

Amin Tarzi: Director of Middle East Studies at Marine Corps University.

The 'Nam

Marine Corps veteran and former Newsweek editor William Broyles, Jr., praised the comic for having "a certain gritty reality," but Jan Scruggs, President of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, questioned if the Vietnam War should be the subject of a comic book and if it might trivialize it.

Van Riper

Paul K. Van Riper, retired Lieutenant General of the United States Marine Corps

Vance DeGeneres

After a two-year stint in the Marine Corps, during which he reached the rank of corporal, DeGeneres hosted a radio program called New Wave New Orleans in the late 1970s, broadcast on WRNO-FM.

William B. Baugh

Born July 7, 1930, in McKinney, Kentucky, William Bernard Baugh was employed by Harrison Shoe Corporation before his enlistment in the Marine Corps on January 23, 1948, at the age of 17.

William Bush

William Sharp Bush, United States Marine Corps officer who was killed on the USS Constitution during the War of 1812

William Ward Burrows

William Ward Burrows I (Marine Lieutenant Colonel) (1768–1805), second Commandant of the Marine Corps