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  • WATCH: 100-Year-Old WWII Veteran Travels from Connecticut to Iwo Jima for 80th Anniversary of Battle

    04/06/2025 12:58:43 PM PDT · by DFG · 21 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 04/06/2025 | Alana Mastrangelo
    A 100-year-old World War II veteran traveled from Bristol, Connecticut, to Iwo Jima to mark 80 years since the U.S. fought on the small Japanese island. Joseph Caminiti, a 100-year-old WWII veteran who still goes to the gym daily, joined U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, military officials, and families of those killed in the battle of Iwo Jima to visit the island for the combat’s 80-year anniversary, according to a report by WTNH. Caminiti is among the estimated three remaining living survivors of the battle of Iwo Jima, where the iconic photograph was captured of U.S. Marines raising the...
  • Marine Vet Vice President J.D. Vance Is On The Range Right Now With The Marines

    03/26/2025 12:42:59 PM PDT · by Enlightened1 · 33 replies
    X ^ | 03/26/25 | Eric Daugherty
    Looks like the Vice President is firing a .50 cal at 500 yards in the prone position.Love it! https://x.com/ericldaugh/status/1904975288988991723
  • A Weaponized FBI: It's Real, Whistleblowers Testify, Boasting Scars to Prove It

    02/16/2025 10:08:51 AM PST · by AppyPappy · 29 replies
    Longview News-Journal ^ | Feb 16, 2025 | Ben Weingarten
    But former colleagues of the terminated “G-men” say this narrative is backward. FBI officials, past and present, have marshaled significant evidence via whistleblower complaints and testimony indicating that several terminated leaders routinely used their offices for partisan purposes.
  • The Ships That Take Marines to War Are in Really, REALLY Bad Shape

    02/07/2025 6:46:12 AM PST · by george76 · 38 replies
    Hot Air ^ | February 06, 2025 | Hope Seck
    For years Marine Corps leaders have been calling for more amphibious ships to transport Marines and their warfighting equipment around the globe. But a recent government oversight report revealed what bad shape the Navy’s existing amphibious ships are in – and raised major concerns about challenges for the Marine Corps in fulfilling critical national security missions. Of the 32 amphibious warfare ships now in inventory, only half are in “satisfactory” shape, a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released in December showed. Sixteen ships are classified in “poor material condition,” including five of the nine amphibious assault ships, the largest and...
  • Here are the first Army and Marine Corps units heading to the border

    01/25/2025 3:52:43 AM PST · by Texas Fossil · 48 replies
    Task & Purpose ^ | Jan 25, 2025 | Jeff Schogol, Matt White
    Soldiers from the 82nd Airborne and 10th Mountain Divisions and a Stryker brigade from the 4th Infantry Division have been told they are next up. The Pentagon is sending about 1,000 soldiers and 500 Marines to the border, while soldiers in the 82nd Airborne and 10th Mountain divisions have been told they would be next. Military police and engineers from eight states are among the Army and Marine units the Pentagon is sending to the southern border this week while soldiers with the 82nd Airborne and 10th Mountain Divisions could join them soon, a U.S. official confirmed on Friday. The...
  • Any 75 Year Old Marines On Here? Vanity

    01/15/2025 8:04:46 PM PST · by sunny bonobo · 58 replies
    1/15/25 | Sunny Bonobo
    Are there any Marines on here that were on active duty in 1970? I'm having an online argument with someone who is an extreme braggart and bulls**tter. I tend to not believe a single thing he says. This wasn't the original discussion, but somehow he got to bragging he is a Marine that scored 500 points on his physical fitness test and didn't know anybody else who ever scored that high. I questioned that cause I know the current test has a max of 300 points. Well, he said his test was in 1970. Was wondering if any Marines on...
  • Levin: These drones are mapping, and the government is concealing information. Most likely these are drones from China. Iran and Russia are too busy right now to do this. This is a massive coverup.

    12/13/2024 9:57:33 PM PST · by conservative98 · 132 replies
    Mark Levin Show ^ | 12.13.24 | Mark Levin
    The country is being inundated with drones. These drones are mapping, and the government is concealing information. Most likely these are drones from China. Iran and Russia are too busy right now to do this. This is a massive coverup.
  • Marines Reach Early Full Operational Capacity with New Sniper Rifle

    12/11/2024 1:33:23 PM PST · by george76 · 116 replies
    NRA Shooting Illustrated ^ | December 10, 2024 | Guy J. Sagi
    The MK22 Mod 0 can be changed to fire three different calibers.. U.S. Marine Corps Systems Command has achieved Fully Operational Capability (FOC) for the MRAD MK 22 Mod 0 Advanced Sniper Rifle (ASR) a year ahead of schedule. The MK 22 represents the culmination of Barrett’s dedication to innovation and collaboration with the Department of Defense. Originally developed through a Special Operations Command contract, the MK 22 transitioned to the Marine Corps via the “Special Operations Forces to service” process, with contracting led by the U.S. Army. The seamless interservice cooperation enabled the Marine Corps to achieve FOC a...
  • Freeper Canteen ~ Remembering Our Troops! ~ 21 November 2024

    11/20/2024 6:02:22 PM PST · by Kathy in Alaska · 36 replies
    Serving The Best Troops and Veterans In The World !! | The Canteen Crew and FRiend
    ~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ Marines Preparing To Do Marine Things! U.S. Marine Corps recruits with Fox Company, 2nd Recruit Training Battalion, wait for instructions before a body sparring event at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, California, Oct. 28, 2024. Recruits are taught Marine Corps Martial Arts Program techniques that instill basic self-defense that they will execute throughout recruit training during events like body sparring and pugil sticks to help build a warrior ethos and esprit de corps. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Sarah M. Grawcock) Canteen Mission StatementShowing support and...
  • Los Angeles Times Owner Fires Far-Left Editorial Board – Wants ‘Factual and Balanced Coverage’ of Trump Presidency

    11/13/2024 4:17:44 AM PST · by vespa300 · 38 replies
    X via GP ^ | 11//12/2024 | Ben Kew
    The owner of the Los Angeles Times has fired his entire editorial board as he seeks to return the paper to its journalistic roots. Posting on the X platform, the paper’s owner, Patrick Soon-Shiong, said he was proud to have posted a letter opposing attacks on white women for voting for Donald Trump and that the paper would be undergoing some major changes moving forward: Proud that we posted this letter from one of our readers on X. When the President has won the vote of the majority of Americans then ALL voices must be heard. Opinions are just that
  • One Marine, One Ship

    11/11/2024 10:15:25 AM PST · by chickenlips · 6 replies
    tysknews.com ^ | Oct. 22, 2000 | Vin Suprynowicz
    Oct. 26 falls on a Thursday this year. Ask the significance of the date, and you're likely to draw some puzzled looks — five more days to stock up for Halloween? It's a measure of men like Col. Mitchell Paige and Rear Adm. Willis A. "Ching Chong China" Lee that they wouldn't have had it any other way. What they did 58 years ago, they did precisely so their grandchildren could live in a land of peace and plenty. Whether we've properly safeguarded the freedoms they fought to leave us, may be a discussion best left for another day. Today...
  • How a single flame-throwing 'killing machine' saved his entire company at Iwo Jima - as told to JAMES PATTERSON by his grandson

    10/13/2024 7:39:26 AM PDT · by DFG · 21 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | 10/13/2024 | James Patterson
    Hershel 'Woody' Williams is 17 years old and lives on a dairy farm in Quiet Dell, West Virginia, with his mother and 11 siblings. War is coming; one, he is sure, that will take away America's freedoms and privileges. Marines wear snappy blue uniforms around town and Woody is impressed. If he's going to war, he's going as a Marine. But, at 17, he needs his mother's signature to enlist. Mom refuses to sign the papers. He turns 18 next October - if he wants to be a Marine, he's going to have to wait. December 7, 1941: Japan attacks...
  • Vietnam Marine vet awarded Navy Cross 55 years after saving Marines while wounded

    10/06/2024 8:46:00 PM PDT · by Perseverando · 9 replies
    Tank & Purpose ^ | August 29, 2024 | Joshua Skovlund
    Bullets whizzed by Cpl. Daniel “Duke” Heller as he rescued wounded Marines who’d been trapped in a North Vietnamese Army ambush in the A Shau Valley, Vietnam, on Feb. 13, 1969. Despite being wounded by shrapnel from an RPG, Heller pushed on. He received a Silver Star Medal for his actions that day, but his fellow Marines campaigned for years to see the award upgraded. Five-and-a-half decades later, that happened. On Wednesday, Heller received the Navy Cross, the second-highest valor award a Marine can receive. The 39th Commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. Eric Smith, pinned Heller’s Navy Cross to...
  • FBI Whistleblower Warns Americans: Stock Up on Food, Water, Guns

    09/26/2024 12:47:56 PM PDT · by george76 · 53 replies
    Slay News ^ | September 26, 2024 | Frank Bergman
    An FBI whistleblower has issued a chilling warning to the American people while testifying before U.S. Congress. Veteran FBI staff operations specialist Marcus Allen was called a witness during the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Weaponization of the Federal Government hearing on Wednesday. During a powerful and emotional statement to his fellow Americans, Allen urged “brothers and sisters of all faiths” to “pray” and stock up on food, water, guns, and ammunition. Fighting back tears, he also advised citizens to connect with “three to four friends in your neighborhood and promise to come to each other’s mutual aid.” Allen issued the...
  • Israel Kills Murderer of 300 Marines in Beirut

    09/20/2024 7:55:05 AM PDT · by JOHN ADAMS · 33 replies
    Yisrael Hayom and others ^ | September 20, 2024 | Yoav Limor
    The linked article is in Hebrew, and says that the target of Israel's bombing in Beirut today was Ibrahim Aqil, and that the operation was successful, i.e. he's dead. The Wall Street Journal has a story about the operation, here https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/hezbollah-hunts-for-security-gaps-moles-as-it-reels-from-brutal-week-14210631?mod=hp_lead_pos1 but doesn't identify Aqil as the target. Aqil was wanted by the US for his role in the murder of 300 Marines in Beirut. There was a $7 million reward posted for information about him.
  • Disturbing video shows Marines being attacked by crowd

    09/03/2024 12:16:33 PM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 20 replies
    FNC ^ | 3/9/24
    Fox News' Alex Hogan provides details on two U.S. marines' condition following an attack in Turkey that resulted in 15 arrests. Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., argues the attack is the result of weak leadership in the White House.
  • America isn’t ready for another war — because it doesn’t have the troops

    09/01/2024 7:54:08 PM PDT · by blueplum · 86 replies
    Vox via msn ^ | 01 Sep 2024 | Gil Barndollar
    Coverage of the wars in Ukraine and Gaza is mostly dominated by talk of weapons. Reporters and analysts focus on suicide drones, on shell deficits, on targeting algorithms. But for all the attention devoted to modern weapons and munitions, both conflicts are proving that modern war still comes down to people.... ... Before Covid, fewer than 3 in 10 Americans in the prime recruiting demographic — ages 17 to 24 — were eligible to serve in uniform. Those numbers have shrunk further since the pandemic began. Only 23 percent of young Americans are qualified to enlist without a waiver.... In...
  • Bold plan to flood Darwin with thousands of US Marines as cheapest way to defend 'under-prepared Australia from enemies

    08/08/2024 11:45:22 PM PDT · by blueplum · 60 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | 08 Aug 2024 | y DAVID SOUTHWELL FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA
    Up to 16,000 US Marines would by stationed in Australia's Top End by 2025 under a radical new defence plan. A report by two think tanks has called for the US military presence in Darwin to be beefed up to 16,000 US Marines as one of the cheapest and quickest ways for Australia to deter potential enemies. Currently 2,500 Marines are stationed at Robertson Barracks, Palmerston on a rotational basis ...
  • JD Vance is ranked an Expert on both Rifle and Pistol on his USMC Records

    08/08/2024 6:43:30 PM PDT · by Macho MAGA Man · 43 replies
    Jack Posobiec on Twitter X ^ | August 8, 2024 | Jack Posobiec
    Jack Poso 🇺🇸 @JackPosobiec JD Vance is ranked an Expert on both Rifle and Pistol on his USMC Records 8:00 PM · Aug 8, 2024
  • NCIS probes death of major general found on California Marine base

    07/03/2024 7:32:37 AM PDT · by CFW · 75 replies
    Just the News ^ | 7/2/24 | Misty Severi
    The Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) launched an investigation into the death of a major general, officials said Tuesday, after the officer's body was found on the Twentynine Palms marine base in California over the weekend. Details about the death of Maj. Gen. William Mullen have not been disclosed so far, but the retired officer was discovered dead on the base on Saturday, according to the Los Angeles Times. NCIS is a law enforcement agency for the Department of the Navy that leads criminal investigations and probes noncombat deaths of Navy sailors and Marines. [snip] Mullen previously served as the...