U.S. Marines participate in Baltic Operations 2025, an annual, joint and multinational maritime-focused exercise in the Baltic Sea region, June 3-20, 2025. The exercise is conducted by the United States and executed and delivered by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, demonstrating cohesion among allied and partner forces. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Sgt. Alyssa Chuluda)
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.
