U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Robert B. Sofge Jr., outgoing commander, Marine Corps Forces Europe and Africa, passes command to Maj. Gen. Daniel Shipley, incoming commander, MARFOREUR/AF, during a change of command ceremony on U.S. Army Garrison Panzer Kaserne in Boblingen, Germany, July 3, 2025. U.S. Marines with Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron (HMH) 464 transport Royal Netherlands Marines to the HNLMS "Johan de Witt", a Rotterdam-class Landing platform dock of the Royal Netherlands Navy, during Atlantic Alliance 2025 near the coast of New Jersey, July 3, 2025. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Joseph E. DeMarcus)
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.
