United States Marine Corps

These men are part of the United States Marines Corps in Guantanamo, Cuba. As part of the marines, the men are supposed to live by the marine code of defending their unit, God, corps, and country. Living by the marine code also means being honorable. In the play, Colonel Jessep’s morals and sense of honor are tested when he secretly orders a disciplinary action, called a code red, to Pfc. Santiago that accidently results in his death. Dawson and Downey were the marines…

at forty-five degree angles. With sweat seeping out of my face and heart pounding so fast it felt like I was having a heart attack. The recruits and myself had just exercised immediate compliance to our first order in the United States Marine Corps. United States Marine Corps recruit training is the hardest U.S. military indoctrinatory exercises and is famous/infamous for its training tactics. With that being said, from day one to include graduation day you learn several sets of values that…

“you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future’’. No matter what everything is connected from the music you listen to , too the day Hitler invaded poland. What you do now will change history. The deadliest war in human history with millions of casualties and even more civilians killed, all caused by one man, Adolf Hitler. Hitler got his hatred for the jews during WW1 on the western…

July 11, 2011. I departed for United States Marine Corps boot camp at Marine Corps Depot San Diego, California. The events I went through are the toughest moments I have ever encountered in my twenty-one years. Discipline; this word eluded me throughout the beginning stages of my life until that first day I stepped onto those yellow footprints. Yelling, organization and speed were constantly the instructor’s purpose. We would walk in a formation with 92 other recruits, while in sync and conduct…

For exceptionally meritorious service to the government of the United States in a duty of great responsibility as the Chief of Staff for Marine Corps Combat Development Command from July 2013 to XXXX 2016. Col Mundy led a staff representing 18,000 personnel spread over several commands located across the county responsible for integrating Marine Corps concepts and requirements based warfighting capabilities; including doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leadership and education,…

made. This certain topic affects me because I have a brother that has given four years of service and has five more years of service to give after becoming an officer for the Marines. My brother Thomas served as infantry member and if they rule that women may serve it will affect him in his military career in the…

Half of the battle of overseas combat is the military engagement. The other half; the half not as evident, is the transition home. Marines adopt a heightened sense of awareness for survival in a war zone. However, these adaptations do not vanish when Marines return home. Complications such as, feelings of displacement arise when Marines transition from an ever-evolving hostile environment back into a once familiarly known calm atmosphere. Understandably, a contribution to this feeling is that…

In what seems like a blink of the eyes, it was last summer that I was talking with Chris Christian an Army Afghanistan veteran who last year was the featured speaker at the annual Shamokin Memorial Day observance who told me about how a group of Marine Corps veterans were getting together for the first time in a quarter-century. I knew the organizer Joe Lindemuth, a…

or she “loves” pizza, but I highly doubt that Said Person has “an intense feeling of deep affection.” The point I’m trying to get across is that dependability is much more than just its definition. Being dependable is important (especially as a United States…

Four years ago I was introduced and convinced to join a program called MCJROTC by my brother. MCJROTC (Marine Corps Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps) is a program that is meant to teach and instill discipline, responsibility, and leadership traits in a student. I successfully joined this discourse community by showing the knowledge that I have obtained from the program, dealing with the emotions of my cadets (proper term for a student in the program), and achieving my credibility by ranking…