Story by Pfc. Samantha Schwoch | Marine Forces Reserve (MARFORRES) | 01.25.2018
In the mountainous terrain of northern Vermont, where temperatures drop below freezing and the snow covers the landscape, Marines were pushed to their limits as they battled against the extreme winter weather....
Story by Kevan Goff-Parker | 72nd Air Base Wing | 11.15.2017
U.S. Marine Corps Pvt. Vernon Paul Keaton, 18, was killed along with 428 of his shipmates during the attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on Dec. 7, 1941, while serving on the USS Oklahoma....
Story by Pfc. Melany Breedlove | Marine Forces Reserve (MARFORRES) | 10.20.2017
Life in the military is a path not many people take, even fewer take the road of becoming a U.S. Marine. The military in general has many challenges that service members learn to face throughout their career. Those challenges include going to school, taking care of their family and performing their military occupation specialties simultaneously, while also participating in exercises or......
Story by Pfc. Samantha Schwoch | Marine Forces Reserve (MARFORRES) | 09.03.2017
U.S. Marines with 4th Reconnaissance Battalion, 4th Assault Amphibian Battalion and 14th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, Marine Forces Reserve, came together in wake of Hurricane Harvey to conduct search and rescue missions and provide disaster relief to effected areas of Texas and Louisiana, Aug. 28-Sept. 3, 2017....
Story by Lance Cpl. Imari Dubose | Marine Forces Reserve (MARFORRES) | 09.03.2017
BEAUMONT, Texas -- After an exhaustive but humbling week of search and rescue operations, U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Andy Sosa, an amphibious assault crewmember, rested and conducted necessary maintenance on amphibious assault vehicles at the Ford Park Entertainment Complex, Beaumont, Texas, on Sept. 1, 2017....
Story by Lance Cpl. Niles Lee | Marine Forces Reserve (MARFORRES) | 09.02.2017
“It’s like something you would see out of a movie,” said Marine Corps Sgt. Brad Coats, a reconnaissance Marine with Charlie Company, 4th Reconnaissance Battalion, 4th Marine Division, Marine Forces Reserve. “It’s something you don’t want to see, families out here have lost everything.”...
Story by Lance Cpl. Niles Lee | Marine Forces Reserve (MARFORRES) | 08.14.2017
Sitting calmly and collectively on a U.S. Army Boeing CH-47 Chinook in flight, Capt. John Howarth the company operations liaison officer with Echo Company, 4th Reconnaissance Battalion, 4th Marine Division, watches as Reconnaissance Marines jump out of the helicopter during exercise Northern Strike 17. Worn proudly above his left breast pocket are his Combatant Diver and Naval Parachutist......
Story by Cpl. Dallas Johnson | Marine Forces Reserve (MARFORRES) | 08.13.2017
Marines with 4th Air Naval Ground Liaison Company and 6th ANGLICO, Force Headquarters Group, Marine Forces Reserve, and 3rd Force Reconnaissance Company, 4th Marine Division, MARFORRES, participated in the first iteration of the Joint Fires Observer primer course at the 4th ANGLICO headquarters in West Palm Beach, Florida, August 7-11, 2017....
