The Officers’ Club hosted a dedication ceremony for a new sculpture at their establishment Jan. 9, 2018. The sculpture was gifted by Claudio D’Augustino, a sculptor who has created many Marine Corps-related pieces for the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, Calif.
Author: SgtGrit
IDAHO FALLS FUTURE MARINE SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF, INSPIRE COMMUNITY
Born in Fort Washakie, Wyoming, a trouble maker and full of attitude, Devin Nagitsy moved from a reservation to his great grandmothers in Idaho in 2006. Today, he is a Future Marine recruited out of Pocatello, ready to leave for recruit training and earn the title of United States Marine.
MARINE OF THE WEEK // SELFLESS SACRIFICE:
MARINE OF THE WEEK // SELFLESS SACRIFICE:
Sgt. Rafael Peralta
1st Battalion, 3rd Marines, Regimental Combat Team 7, 1st Marine Division
Fallujah, Iraq, November 15 2004
Award: Navy Cross (Posthumously)
Clearing scores of houses in the previous three days, Sergeant Peralta asked to join an under-strength squad and volunteered to stand post the night of 14 November, allowing fellow Marines more time to rest. The following morning, during search and attack operations, while clearing the seventh house of the day, the point man opened a door to a back room and immediately came under intense, close-range automatic weapons fire from multiple insurgents. The squad returned fire, wounding one insurgent. While attempting to maneuver out of the line of fire, Sergeant Peralta was shot and fell mortally wounded. After the initial exchange of gunfire, the insurgents broke contact, throwing a fragmentation grenade as they fled the building. The grenade came to rest near Sergeant Peralta’s head. Without hesitation and with complete disregard for his own personal safety, Sergeant Peralta reached out and pulled the grenade to his body, absorbing the brunt of the blast and shielding fellow Marines only feet away. Sergeant Peralta succumbed to his wounds. By his undaunted courage, intrepid fighting spirit, and unwavering devotion to duty, Sergeant Peralta reflected great credit upon himself and upheld the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and the United States Naval Service.
COORDINATING TOGETHER GUARANTEES MISSION SUCCESS
U.S. Marines with Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 12, Marine All-Weather Fighter Attack Squadron 242 and Marine Wing Support Squadron 171, all based out of Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, conducted hot-pit refueling and hot-reload training on U.S. Marine Corps F/A-18D Hornets at Naval Air Station Pohang, Republic of Korea, Dec. 12-13, 2017.
MARINE OF THE WEEK.
MARINE OF THE WEEK // “And in a second all my training took over…”
Corporal Cecil D. Burkes
Avionics technician, Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 161, MCAS Miramar and 3rd MAW
Operation Enduring Freedom
Sept. 14, 2012
Award: Bronze Star w/ Combat “V”
MARINE AWARDED FOR RESCUING FOUR OKINAWANS FROM RIP TIDE
A Marine was awarded the nation’s highest medal for non-combat heroism during a ceremony on Camp Schwab, Okinawa, Japan, January 8, 2018, for courageous actions off duty.
1st Lt. Aaron Cranford, a supply officer with Headquarters and Service Company, 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, 3rd Marine Division, was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for saving three divers and a local Okinawan who were caught in a rip current during a recreational dive at Onna Point, Okinawa, Japan on April 23, 2017.
No more infantry assault Marines, commandant says
The Marine Corps is phasing out the assault section of rifle companies and abolishing the infantry assault Marine military occupational specialty altogether.
By doing so, the Corps expects to free up about 500 Marines for other jobs deemed essential to defeating future adversaries, such as cyber operations, electronic warfare and intelligence, Military.com reported on Wednesday.
At home and abroad, Marines are always faithful.
Early afternoon on Sunday, Dec. 18, a man veered off the road crossing lanes of oncoming traffic crashing his pickup truck to a lake between Virginia and Pingree roads in Lake in the Hills, Ill.
Gunnery Sgt. Michael Wulf, a U.S. Marine, witnessed the event from just a short distance behind the vehicle. Without hesitation, Wulf and Scott Gesicki, another witness, immediately stopped their vehicles and took action. Wulf and the other witness jumped into the lake helping the 62-year-old driver and his dog escape the truck before it was fully submerged in the lake.
BATTLE SKILLS TEST: THE FUTURE OF WELL-TRAINED MARINES
Several Marines from Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia participated in a mock Battle Skills Test November 21, 2017. The test, which is still under development by Marine Corps Training and Education Command, will be an annual requirement for Marines to “get back to basics.”
3RD MARDIV STAFF NCO BARRACKS RENAMED AFTER VIETNAM WAR HERO
Colonel Giles R. Boyce, the commanding officer for Headquarters Battalion, 3rd Marine Division, renamed the staff non-commissioned officer barracks on Camp Courtney, Okinawa, Japan, Dec. 22, 2017. The barracks were named after Vietnam war hero, Staff Sgt. Claude H. Dorris, a former squad leader and advisor for Combined Action Platoon H-6, 3rd Combined Action Group, III Marine Amphibious Force, in the Republic of Vietnam.