Photo by Staff Sgt. Nicolas Myers | AFN Spangdahlem | 11.05.2020
On February 13, 1943 the Marine Corps Women’s Reserve was officially established. Terms like “Femarines” and “Glamarines” were original suggestions to identify these women but Marine Corps Commandant, General Thomas Holcomb decided they didn’t need a nickname. They would be trained as Marines and would therefore be known as Marines. Recruiting brochures at the time promised 34......
Photo by Staff Sgt. Nicolas Myers | AFN Spangdahlem | 11.04.2020
A turning point in the Pacific War of World War II, the Battle of Midway was called “the most stunning and decisive blow in the history of naval warfare” by military historian Craig Symonds. While Japan was planning to lure American to Midway in a strategic trap, American cryptographers determined the date and location of Japan’s attack and forewarned the U.S. Navy to prepare its own......
Photo by Staff Sgt. Nicolas Myers | AFN Spangdahlem | 11.04.2020
Four days after the infamous attack on Pearl Harbor, following a declaration of war by Germany, the United States officially declared war on Germany and entered into World War II. Congress voted unanimously to adopt the war resolution when months prior the majority weren’t in favor of involving the country in the war at the time. President Roosevelt’s message to congress emphasized......
Photo by Spc. Andrew Jo | 40th Public Affairs Detachment | 10.09.2020
Former U.S. Army Private 1st Class James Greene of 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, speaks to a gathered crowed while on the steps of the South Carolina state capital, after receiving awards for his actions at Hamburger Hill, Vietnam, where he fought 50 years earlier as an M-60 machine gunner. (U.S. Army photos by Spc. Andrew Jo, 40th Public Affairs Detachment)...
Photo by Senior Airman Kevin Long | AFN Spangdahlem | 09.25.2020
The B-52 Stratofortress, more popularly known as “BUFF”, is one of the oldest military aircraft still in service today, and is still one of the most impressive. The first Boeing B-52 became operational on June 29th, 1955 at Castle Air Force Base in California. Since then, B-52s have played a key role from the Cold War and the Vietnam War, to Desert Storm and the Global War on Terror. It is......
Photo by Airman 1st Class Kevin Long | AFN Spangdahlem | 09.25.2020
The Korean War began on June 25th, 1950 when the North Korean Communist army crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded non-Communist South Korea. As the North Korean army, armed with Soviet tanks, quickly overran South Korea, the United States came to South Korea’s aid. As the North Korean army, armed and trained by the USSR and supplemented by China, pushed into the South Korean capital of......
Photo by Cpl. Jonathan Hodges | II MEF Information Group | 07.08.2020
A graphic illustration depicting the origins of the Marine Corps. The Marine Corps was first founded as the Continental Marines on November 10, 1775 and was disbanded after the Revolutionary War in April 1783. The Continental Marines were reinstated on July 11, 1798 as the United States Marine Corps. (U.S. Marine Corps illustration by Cpl. Jonathan Hodges) (This illustration was created using......
Photo by Lance Cpl. Colton Brownlee | Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center | 05.25.2020
The pilot of a North American T-28 Trojan trainer gives a thumbs up to another pilot during a Memorial Day ceremonial flyover at the Palm Springs Air Museum, Palm Springs, Calif., May 25, 2020. Five burial flags were presented and flown over Southern California in historic aircraft to commemorate fallen American service members for Memorial Day. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Colton......
