Commandant of the Marine Corps

The author of the essay, “Military Women in Combat, Why Making It Official Matters”, Jena McGregor starts right off by telling you the topic she will cover. She starts the essay with the sentence, “It’s been a big couple of weeks for women in the military” to draw in her audience by leaving them intrigued from something that hasn’t changed in years. After using that sentence to catch the audience’s attention, she then states, “Last week, female soldiers began formally moving into jobs in…

Robert B. Neller, the commandant of the Marine Corps. This was said in a meeting specifically discussing females and their roles in the U.S military. The idea actually seemed to resonate quite well through the people present and many generals and top aids agreed that it needs to be discussed…

service to overcome social bias. Two black divisions were created. One was under the command of the French and the other under the command of the Americans. The navy, army, and marines were just as separate at the beginning of the Korean War despite President Truman 's Executive Order number 9981. The Air Corps and Marine Corps still declined the enlistment of blacks. (Gropman,…

In Dereliction of Duty, H. R. McMaster provides a detailed analysis of the key decisions that the Johnson administration made leading up to the Vietnam War. Using recently declassified material, including many tapes and papers from the Johnson Presidential Library, he highlights how and why those decision were made, thereby giving readers a fresh and unique view of how the United States turned Vietnam into an American war. McMaster, a military historian and former history instructor at the…