U.S. Marines with Fox Battery, 2nd Battalion, 14th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, conduct operations with HIMARS during exercise Baltic Operations 2025 (BALTOPS 25), Poland, June 18-19, 2025. BALTOPS 25, the premier maritime-focused exercise in the Baltic Region, provides a unique training opportunity to strengthen combined response capabilities critical to preserving freedom of navigation and security in the Baltic Sea. U.S. Marines with 2d Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 2nd Marine Division execute close quarters battle training during exercise Baltic Operations 2025 in Skrunda, Latvia, June 19, 2025. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Jadica Heinz.)
Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps Troy E. Black was in the Marine Corps Junior Reserve Officer's Training Corps (JROTC) in high school. Black shared with me a little bit of his prequel, one that predates his time in the Marine Corps, but would come to define it and his life as a whole.
The Navy and Marine Corps welcome their newest naval Aviator, U.S. Marine Corps 1st Lt. Brenda McCarthy at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Fla., May 27, 2021.
