Story by Capt. Joseph Payton | 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division | 12.13.2013
Townsend and Command Sgt. Maj. Rick Merritt, division senior enlisted adviser, presented the 10th Mountain Division Marksmanship Award streamer to D Company, 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, and C Troop, 1st Squadron, 71st Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, during an awards ceremony Friday for being the first units to successfully achieve the division’s new marksmanship standards....
Courtesy Story | Marine Corps Air Station Miramar | 06.24.2010
Almost any Marine can tell you that 1st Lt. Alfred A. Cunningham was the Marine Corps' first aviator. However, how many Marines know that on the eve of the 1st Marine Aviation Force entering World War I, Maj. Alfred Cunningham was also the first Marine aviator to develop integrated aviation capabilities with the United Kingdom? Almost a century later, history repeats itself as the 3rd Marine......