This Month's Features
By: Kyle Watts
Marine Air Traffic Controllers (ATCs) represent a small slice of the active-duty component. Less than 1,000 of these Marines exist in the service today, with even fewer operating in capacities actually controlling aircraft. Though small in number, these Marines perform...
By: Briesa Koch
As a tradition, aircraft art in the Armed Forces has been encouraged by some branches while being heavily regulated in others. And though there is currently a massive resurgence of interest in aircraft art, which has become more widespread within...
By: Ed Nevgloski
Executive Editor’s note: This article explores the origins and inception of the Marine gunner and is the cornerstone of an upcoming series in Leatherneck tracing its often-mistaken evolution. Written using official Marine Corps history, it draws extensively from the documents...
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By: Kyle Watts
Marines bear the responsibility of honoring and preserving our heritage. We are instilled with the significance of our history from the moment we set foot...
By: Michael Jerome Plunkett
On Oct. 6, 1862, The New York Times ran a short article wedged in the corner of a page in their daily paper titled “Antietam...
By: Mac Caltrider
It’s a few minutes after 4 a.m. when Marine Staff Sergeant Steven McCall rolls out of bed. His alarm isn’t set to go off for...
By: Kyle Watts
Marine Reconnaissance Veterans Combine Efforts to Inspire the Next Generation Aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., one training company is tasked with producing a...
By: William Treuting
Opinion: Long-Delayed Video Game Delivers Realistic Depiction of Iraq Battle War has forever been entwined with popular culture. Artists have attempted to replicate, with great...
By: Maj Richard A. “Rick” Stewart, USMC (Ret)
A Battle Long Forgotten: Marines Fought Valiantly to Protect Guam During 1941 Japanese Invasion As the Marine Corps has shifted its focus toward forward deployed...
By: Patrick Reed
In November 1943, 21-year-old Private First Class Lupe Gasca waded slowly through chest-deep water, toward the small strip of coral clouded by dark gray...
By: Kyle Watts
Noncommissioned officers (NCOs) perform one of the most critical functions of the Marine Corps. They serve as the first line of leadership in every small...
By: Geoffrey W. Roecker
A sharp fight for a nameless ridge and a ravine led to a bloody sacrifice for the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines. October 1942 was a...
A row of MAG 26 A-4 Skyhawks line up at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Multiple aerial surveillance missions were conducted...
The 24th Marine Amphibious Unit (MAU) landed in Beirut, Lebanon, on May 29, 1983. The Marines came ashore with mixed feelings. They were the fourth...
By: Col Patty Klop, USMCR
Editor’s note: We are publishing Col Patty Klop’s story to reinforce the importance of speaking openly about PTSD and other mental health issues and to...
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