U.S. Marines with the Quantico Marine Band assigned to Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-250 perform at Faneuil Hall Marketplace during Marine Week Boston, Aug. 22, 2025. U.S. Marines with Martial Arts Instructor Course 106-25 complete their culminating event at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Aug. 21, 2025. (U.S. Marine Corps video by 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.