The Royal Netherlands Marine Corps, or Korps Mariniers, conducted a live-fire exercise at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina, 19-20 March, 2023. The photo of the week was taken by Lance Cpl. Mathew Morales Featuring U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Benjamin Baker, a Rifleman with 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, assessing a simulated casualty during Exercise Warrior Shield 24 at Camp Rodriguez Live-Fire Complex, South Korea, March 8, 2024. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Joshua Munsen and Lance Cpl. Sadiel Cortes Guevara)
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.