KUWAIT CITY — I really didn't know what to expect. The sky was black. Bombs had pitted and scarred the highway that led into liberated Kuwait City. What was ahead? More importantly would I be able to handle what I found? How would the Kuwaitis — who days earlier had been given back their country — react to the hundreds of us reporters and photographers creating a second invasion?
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Pictures from Vietnam
Dozens of pictures from Vietnam.
Best Western scene for ‘old’ men ever filmed
How many times in your life would you have liked to have done this? Especially lately.
A Marine, as seen by…
A Marine, as seen by…
Himself:
A handsome, buff, highly trained professional killer and female idol who carries a finely honed K-Bar, wears a crisp 8-point cammie cover (hat to all you civilians) and is always on time due to the absolute reliability of his Seiko digital watch.
New Helmet Blocks Rifle Shots
The Army and Marine Corps may soon field a lighter combat helmet with nearly double the bullet and blast protection of the current Advanced Combat Helmet.
Army officials said that recent tests of the so-called “Enhanced Combat Helmet” showed the helmets were so strong that engineers didn't have equipment powerful enough to penetrate them with simulated IED fragments.
MEU commander fired in wake of theft arrest
Col. Robert G. Petit, commander of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit at Camp Lejeune, N.C., was relieved of command Saturday following his arrest a week ago in connection with a theft at Walmart in Jacksonville.
The decision by II Marine Expeditionary Force commander Lt. Gen. John M. Paxton to fire Petit “followed a Marine Corps inquiry into the facts relating to Petit’s Jan. 29, 2011 arrest by the Jacksonville Police Department for misdemeanor larceny,” according to a Saturday evening press release from Paxton’s office.
Dating a Marines Daughter…
Dating a Marines Daughter…
Rule One: If you pull into my driveway and honk you'd better be delivering a package, because you're sure not picking anything up.
Rule Two: You do not touch my daughter in front of me. You may glance at her, so long as you do not peer at anything below her neck. If you cannot keep your eyes or hands off of my daughter's body, I will remove them.
TARAWA 3 of 3 WWII RARE COLOR FILM
TARAWA 3 of 3 WWII RARE COLOR FILM
Enlisted Marine Returns as Officer
MARINE CORPS AIR STATION CHERRY POINT, N.C., Feb. 4, 2011 – Marine Corps Capt. Joshua H. Weiland grew up in a typical American family in Park Falls, Wis. Not much more than a couple of intersections in the middle of a national forest, the town gave Weiland an environment that fit his personality.
TARAWA 2 of 3 WWII RARE COLOR FILM
TARAWA 2 of 3 WWII RARE COLOR FILM