U.S. Marines Corps MV-22 Ospreys with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 266, 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing assigned to Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force 250, flyover Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta during Marine Week Atlanta, Aug. 31, 2025. U.S. Marines with Marine Aircraft Group 36, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing and Sailors from 3d Medical Battalion, 3d Marine Logistics Group fly from Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to Ie Shima, Okinawa, Japan, Aug. 26-27, 2025. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Diana Salgado and Lance Cpl. Andra Marton-Salgado)
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.
