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UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS BIRTHDAY On November 10th, The United States Marine Corps Birthday commemorates the establishment of the Continental Marines. #MarineCorpsBirthday The United States Marine Corps, a branch of the United States Armed Forces, is responsible for providing power protection from the sea. They use the mobility of the United States Navy to deliver combined-arms task forces rapidly. The Continental Congress first established the Continental Marines on November 10, 1775, leading up to the American Revolution. Two battalions of Marines fought for independence both on land and at sea. The birth of the U.S. Marine Corps began as a...

Gov. Kay Ivey tweeted that Lowndes County Sheriff John Williams had been “tragically killed” in the line of duty and that she offered her prayers and sympathy to his family and the Lowndes County Sheriff’s Department. Montgomery County Sheriff Derrick Cunningham told news outlets that Williams was shot at a gas station in the community of Hayneville, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) southwest of Montgomery. Details remained sketchy as law enforcement agents converged on the community. Video from WSFA-TV showed a heavy law enforcement presence late Saturday outside a QV gas station. Alabama Law Enforcement Agency spokesman Cpl. Jess Thornton...

A new report from the RAND Corporation analyzed survey data from thousands of active-duty military members and found Marines are more likely to be heavy drinkers, use tobacco and engage in riskier sexual behavior than the sailors, soldiers and airmen of the other branches. RAND found that incidents of binge drinking and hazardous drinking among Marines was almost double what it was in the Air Force. Nearly half of the Marines surveyed reported drinking habits that met the criteria for hazardous (alcoholism). The survey also revealed Marines were more likely to have had more than one sex partner of the...

A former Marine who believed so strongly in the war against the Islamic State group that he secretly traveled to Syria to battle militants there was killed this month fighting for a Kurdish militia... "He said to the effect that 'Isis was the bane of modern existence and needed to be stopped before they destroy any more lives and priceless works of human achievement,'" Cintron said in the email.

REST IN PEACE, FALLEN BROTHERS! In Memoriam My Comrades-In-Arms Of Kilo & Lima Companies, Third Battalion, Fifth Marines Who Fell In Combat In The Mothers' Day Massacre, 11May1969 SSGT. ERWIN EMRICK, JR., USMC LCPL. ROBERT MARTINEZ FUENTES, USMC LCPL. MICHAEL WAYNE GREEN, USMC PFC. STEPHEN RAY LOPEMAN, USMC PFC. ROBERT RUAN MCCLURE, USMC PFC ROBERT NELSON NEWMAN, USMC PVT SAMUEL BRUCE SCHWARTZ, USMC PFC ROBERT BENJAMIN STARKES, JR., USMC CPL TERRY LEE ADKINS, USMC LCpl. ROY LEE BALDWIN, USMC PFC CHARLES WAYNE FORD, USMC LCPL ARTURO BUSTAMANTE GUTIERREZ , USMC PFC ROBERT LLOYD KLEINSMITH, USMC HM3 JEROME MENTER, USN...

The service's top officer plots a post-Afghanistan focus in the Pacific region, where Marines experienced their most devastating losses and most heroic victories. The U.S. Marine Corps, one of the most storied military forces, is searching for a mission after the war in Afghanistan ends. Marines consider themselves a quick-reaction force, traveling light and giving their all whether waging war or responding to humanitarian disasters. But for the past decade, the Corps has been fighting long conflicts in the deserts of Iraq and valleys of Afghanistan, requiring it to behave more as a dug-in land army. Moments in the Marine...

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With "JAG," "Navy CIS," "MASH," and other military television shows being quite popular, one might consider with how military service has enhanced the fame of veteran actors in Hollywood or vice versa. During our distinguished history, some Hollywood actors have taken a break from their careers while they defended our country oftentimes to battle in war. These hereos include Charles Bronson, Gary Cooper, Glenn Ford, Henry Fonda, Clarke Gable, Lee Marvin, Elvis Presley, and Jimmy Stewart. More recent editions of entertainment veterans include "Limp Bizkit" lead singer Fred Durst who did service with the United States Navy. Up until...

National Review Editor Rich Lowry first discussed President Barack Obama's speech last night and talked about his new book "Banquo's Ghosts." Next, we welcomed Co-Author of "Once a Marine," Nick Popaditch to share his story about the war in Iraq and his day-to-day life of a career Marine noncommissioned staff officer. In our final hour, Author of "All About All About Eve," "When Blanche Met Brando," "Close-up on Sunset Boulevard," Sam Staggs expounded on his new book "Born to Be Hurt," which takes on the classic 1959 Douglas Sirk film starring Lana Turner.

(edit)Kelly, 61, who is also a retired Marine sergeant, was immediately tested to see if he was a match, and as luck would have it, he was.“It was really admirable to see these two men who had defied fear in battle and situations of severe adversity to come together,” Molmenti told FOXNews.com. “Now they’re fighting the biggest fight of their whole lives and they're helping each other with this precious gift.” (edit)

Founded in June 2005 by Charles Clark Kissinger, a longtime leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party, World Can't Wait (WCW) is a direct action movement seeking to organize "people living in the United States to take responsibility to stop the whole disastrous course led by the Bush administration." The organization asserts that removing President Bush from office "will be like removing a forty-pound tumor from your gut." WCW vows "to send Bush, Cheney and the rest of those fascists packing. ... After that, there are people in 'World Can't Wait' who are working for everything from reforming the Democratic party,...

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“Miracle Marine” Comes Home By Amy Wood | Posted Friday, October 26, 2007 They’ve called him the miracle marine, from the moment he made it across the ocean and back to the U.S. where he’s gone through hundreds of surgeries, never ending rehab, and the challenges few of us can imagine when you’ve lost both legs. Andrew Kinard is tough because he’s a Marine. But he’s even tougher because he’s one of God’s soldiers. His mission all these months has been to feel the prayers of tens of thousands, and trust that he could make it with God’s help. If...

What defines a hero? A long line of dignitaries stood on stage Saturday in the back parking lot of First Baptist Church and praised the heroic efforts and example of Marine 1st Lt. Andrew Kinard, a Spartanburg native who lost both of his legs and suffered a laundry list of other severe injuries on Oct. 29, 2006, in Iraq.They talked about the six others from this county who have gone to war in recent years and not come home - and other servicemen and women who have been injured. They called Andrew "Spartanburg's hero" and "America's best." They called him...

First the Marine Corps made Chuck Norris an honorary Marine. Now the Corps wants all Marines to follow in his footsteps. All Marines must now qualify for their tan belt in the Corps' version of martial arts by the end of 2007, Corps Commandant Gen. James Conway said in a recent Corps-wide message. The move mostly affects those who joined before 2001, when the service made the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program part of basic training and the Basic School, said 1st Lt. Brian P. Donnelly, a spokesman for Manpower and Reserve Affairs. The Corps originally hoped to have all...

The top U.S. military officer, Marine Gen. Peter Pace, doesn't plan to apologize for telling a newspaper that homosexuality is immoral. Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Chicago Tribune on Monday that he supports the "don't ask, don't tell" policy banning openly gay people from serving in the U.S. armed forces. The general also compared homosexuality to adultery -- behavior that is prosecuted in the military, he said. "My upbringing is such that I believe that there are certain things, certain types of conduct that are immoral," Pace told the Tribune. "I believe that military members...

WASHINGTON - The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Monday he considers homosexuality to be immoral and the military should not condone it by allowing gay personnel to serve openly, the Chicago Tribune reported. Marine Gen. Peter Pace likened homosexuality to adultery, which he said was also immoral, the newspaper reported on its Web site. "I do not believe the United States is well served by a policy that says it is OK to be immoral in any way," Pace told the newspaper in a wide-ranging interview. Pace, a native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and a 1967 graduate of...

Al Moreno is a Newport Beach private eye and a former Los Angeles police officer. He is divorced and lives alone. Since the day in his teens he learned of it, he has been tormented by his father?s desertion from the Navy on Feb. 14, 1944. For almost two decades, Moreno has been trying to close the gap between the bodies in that snapshot. He?s written to presidents, to congressmen, to the Justice Department, to anyone who might listen. What he wants is simple: a posthumous pardon for his father, who died destitute in 1977, nearly three decades after the...

I am shaking with fury right now. I just listened on the radio to the father of one of the Marines and the wife of the Navy corpsman incarcerated in Camp Pendleton - UNCHARGED -after Haditha. Let me tell you what's going on with OUR Marines right at this moment: While "detainees" (not "terrorists", not "prisoners", not "criminals", mind you) at Gitmo are accorded every privilege - including playing soccer in the sun, praying whenever they want, white-glove Koran service, and halal meals...our Marines, who have NOT been charged with any crime whatsoever are in SOLITARY CONFINEMENT and wearing leg...

 As ugly as the Haditha incident appears to be, there are people who cannot resist the temptation to make it even uglier. First reported in Time Magazine, the November 19, 2005 incident, in which up to two dozen civilians are alleged to have been killed by U.S. Marines, did not impact public opinion until Rep. John Murtha (D, PA) appeared on Hardball with Chris Matthews, where the soldier’s pal revealed that the attack had been carried out “in cold blood” and was “even worse” than outlined in the magazine report. Murtha also acquiesced to Matthews’ eager suggestions that the attack was...