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• FEATURE: Rebuilding Afghanistan's Air Corps (airforcetimes.com)
  The Afghan National Army Air Corps’ sprawling new $183 million campus could make any American airman jealous....
• FEATURE: Medal Of Honor Denial Stirs Strong Reaction In Many (honoluluadvertiser.com)
  "Dear Mr. President," the letter starts. "We are writing to express our extreme disappointment with the decision to posthumously award Marine Corps Sgt Rafael Peralta with the Navy Cross instead of the Medal of Honor."....
• FEATURE: Helping To Bring The War Home (washingtonpost.com)
  They answer visitors' questions as any docent would, everything from the location of the nearest restroom to casualty totals at the Battle of Belleau Wood. But fresh off the front lines, the Marines also depict war as they lived it, mostly as on-the-ground grunts: dirty, frustrating, harrowing, triumphant, with personal details that make war come alive in ways no artifact or display ever could....
• FEATURE: Principal Applies Marine Corps Lessons (news-record.com)
  Mark Harris patrols the halls of Ferndale Middle School, exchanging special greetings with smiling students: a raised right hand, palm turned forward, then twisted side to side....
• FEATURE: Author Probes Lee Harvey Oswald's Years In Japan (nwitimes.com)
  More than 50 years ago, Jack Swike was in Atsugi, Japan, where he served as a Marine Corps Intelligence officer in charger of security and top-secret material for Marine Air Group 11 (MAG-11) in 1956 and '57. Swike, who lives in Merrillville, would leave Japan just months before Lee Harvey Oswald would be stationed there....
• REPORT: Lessons From The U.S. Marine Corps Can Apply To Corporate Leadership (marketplace.com)
  Alsbridge, Inc. will host a workshop on leadership as a way of life (10:50 AM, Thursday, September 25, Monte Lago I room). The workshop is part of the SIG Sourcing Leadership Summit Sept. 24-26 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Lake Las Vegas, Nevada....
• COLUMN: Is Requesting Mast Career Suicide? (marinecorpstimes.com)
  For the better part of a year, then-MSgt Isaac Ford traveled to local and regional recruiting stations, meeting with officer procurement recruiters and potential candidates, training recruiters and analyzing data on recruiting efforts and trends in the Western Recruiting Region....
• COLUMN: Memories I Have; Some Good, Some Not So Good (americanchronicle.com)
  It's 2008. I am 56 years old and still married to the 16-year-old girl who stood at the alter with me when I was 17. I am a Vietnam veteran, a retired U.S. Marine, father of four and grandfather of 12....
• COLUMN: Marines Aren't Paid To Be Pacifists (ocregister.com)
  Marines aren't paid to be pacifists. So perhaps it's not surprising that some Marines here are actually a little disappointed that the situation isn't more "kinetic" – that is, that they aren't seeing more action....