Story by Lance Cpl. Sean LeClaire | Marine Corps Base Quantico | 04.04.2024
MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Va. – Nearly 13,000 staff sergeants in the Marine Corps competed for 21 slots to meritoriously promote to gunnery sergeant, and a Quantico Marine beat about 99% of the Marines for that promotion....
Story by Jean Han | 1st Armored Division | 07.10.2020
FORT BLISS, Texas - America’s Tank Division will be toasting “cheers to 80 years” this Jul. 15 in commemoration of eight decorated decades of service. Famously known by the moniker “Old Ironsides”, the 1st Armored Division is the oldest, most recognizable armor division in the U.S. Army. Magruder happened to glance at a painting of the famous U.S. Navy warship, the U.S.S.......
Story by Ida Irby | Marine Corps Base Quantico | 12.30.2015
After 97 years of gender-integration in the Marine Corps, the first female to achieve the rank of master gunnery sergeant in the combat camera occupation retired with 23 years and 16 days of service. A momentous ceremony was held Dec. 30 at the Semper Fidelis Memorial Chapel in Triangle, Virginia to retire Master Gunnery Sgt. Shalanda Raynor, who served as a combat photographer, drill......
Story by Ida Irby | Marine Corps Base Quantico | 12.12.2015
A picturesque cemetery of green wreaths with red ribbons set the scene for Wreaths Across America at Quantico National Cemetery in Triangle, Virginia. The holiday wreath-laying ceremony gave more than 300 members from the community an opportunity to gather in remembrance of our nation’s fallen heroes....
Courtesy Story | Defense Information School | 05.05.2015
The National Museum of the Marine Corps is pleased to announce it will host the first-ever exhibit showcasing the winning works of the Department of Defense (DOD) Communicators of Excellence (COE) awards program....
Story by James Katzaman | Marine Corps Systems Command | 02.18.2014
At the foot of relics of past conflicts, Marine Corps officials placed an item unique identification marking on an M32A1 multi-shot grenade launcher, the 1 millionth piece of equipment to carry an IUID designation in the last two and a half years....
Story by Pfc. Samuel Ellis | Marine Corps Base Quantico | 07.11.2013
With a sharp “click,” Lance Cpl. Henry Howard secured a bayonet to his rifle. Clad in freshly-pressed dress blue uniforms, Henry and the other members of the Silent Drill Platoon were preparing for their next performance....
Story by Lance Cpl. Scott Whiting | Marine Corps Installations East | 06.16.2012
The Camp Lejeune Bulldogs made quite a statement, Saturday evening, June 16, rolling over the Triangle Nighthawks, out of Raleigh, N.C., and keeping their undefeated record for a week longer....
