Category: Marine Corps

The Marine Corps released a new document containing recruitment strategies that may let some future Marines skip boot camp.

Award-winning author Toby Harnden has written a riveting account of the very first days of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan that followed the September 11th Attacks in 2001. Harnden’s book, “First Casualty: The Untold Story of the CIA to Avenge 9/11,” relies extensively on personal interviews with the particpants of these early battles to overthrow Taliban control of Afghanistan.

A lot has changed since MCRD San Diego was commissioned on December 1, 1921. But the determination of the Marines to defend their country has not.

“We need every single Marine in the unit to be vaccinated. We have to make sure that everybody on the team is ready to go all the time,” the Corps’ commandant said.

The Marines are relentless, loyal, valiant, and never take their eyes off of winning. And these famous Marine quotes exemplify that.

We were doing the one thing every Marine trains for, thinks about, and begs to do. We were celebrating our birthday in the heat of battle.

This is the story of Darrell Cole who would be posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism on the beaches of Iwo Jima.

The unique bond between Marines and their “Doc” is nearly unbreakable.

Semper Fi is the famed motto of the Marine Corps, but did you know that the Marines aren’t the only ones to use Semper?

LTC Stu Scheller had posted a viral video in which he lambasted the military’s senior leadership for the manner of the Afghanistan withdrawal.

The Marine Corps should not look to make an example of Lt. Col. Scheller. It should judge him solely on his actions.

It has been decades since John Basilone served bravely in Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima, but his country hasn’t forgotten him.