During his military career, he served as Commander, United States European Command ( COMUSEUCOM ) and Supreme Allied Commander Europe ( SACEUR ) from 2003 to 2006 and as the 32nd Commandant of the Marine Corps from July 1999 to January 2003.

In the United States, the United States Navy's Commander, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command oversees meteorological efforts for the Navy and Marine Corps while the United States Air Force's Air Force Weather Agency is responsible for the Air Force and Army.

The SEALs however are surrounded and gunned down by Hummel's marines in a shower room after SEAL Commander Anderson ( Michael Biehn ) refuses to surrender ( the fight is provoked by Marine Captains Frye and Darrow, later revealed to be following Hummel only for the money instead of honor ), leaving only Mason and Goodspeed alive when they remained in the tunnels while the SEALs confronted the marines.

Another fraction led by Commander Wolfgang Wegener argued that because of superior British shipbuilding capacity that Germany could never hope to build a “ balanced fleet ” capable of winning the Entscheidungsschlacht, and that as such, the best use of German naval strength was to build a fleet of cruisers and submarines that would wage a guerre de course (“ war of the chase ”, a strategy of seeking to destroy the British Merchant Marine instead of the Navy ).

The top scoring fighter ace with 17 victories was Commander Stanley Orr, the Royal Marine ace was Ronald Cuthbert Hay with 13 victories.

It also shows the garrison's naval commander dying of wounds and the defense of the island being directed by Marine officers ; in fact, Commander Winfield S. Cunningham survived the war.

On orders from President Franklin D. Roosevelt through a proposal from OSS Director Colonel William J. Donovan and the former Commander of the United States Marine Detachment Major Evans F Carlson, directed the formation of what became the Marine Raiders.

In 1943, he served as Commander of Marine Forces overseeing Guadalcanal, Tulagi, and the Russell and Florida Islands.

* Graves B. Erskine, U. S. Marine Corps general ; combat officer in World War I, having received the Silver Star and Purple Heart ; U. S. Commander of the 3rd Marine Division in World War II in the Battle of Iwo Jima, having earned the Navy Distinguished Service Medal

* Graves B. Erskine, U. S. Marine Corps general ; combat officer in World War I, having received the Silver Star and Purple Heart ; U. S. Commander of the 3rd Marine Division in World War II in the Battle of Iwo Jima, having earned the Distinguished Service Medal

General A. A. Vandegrift, Commander of the 1st Marine Division, and later Commandant of the Marine Corps, wrote a letter of commendation that states in part:

Other contingency operation after 1991 included Operation Sea Angel ( Bangladesh relief ) ( led by Commander III Marine Expeditionary Force ), Operation Eastern Exit, and involvement in the Somali Civil War-' Restore Hope '.

Past honorees have included: Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz ( 2002 ), Senator Joe Lieberman ( 1997 ), Senator Max Cleland ( 2000 ), then-Defense Secretary Dick Cheney ( 1991 ), all three Secretaries of the U. S. Armed Services ( 2001 ), Congresswoman Jane Harman and Congressman Jim Saxton ( 2003 ), Indiana Senator Evan Bayh ( 2004 ), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Peter Pace ( USMC ) ( 2005 ), Senator John McCain ( 2006 ), Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates ( 2007 ), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen ( 2008 ), and ( 2009 ) all five chiefs of the U. S. Armed Forces and the Commander of the U. S. Special Operations Command ( U. S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey, Jr .; U. S. Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James T. Conway ; U. S. Navy Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Gary Roughead ; Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Thad W. Allen ; Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton A. Schwartz ; Commander of U. S. Special Operations Command U. S. Navy Adm. Eric T.

Numerous Marine generals and Naval Admirals are products of Villanova's Naval ROTC program, including William J. Fallon, Admiral in the United States Navy and Commander of United States Central Command ; George B. Crist, Marine General and the first Marine to be designated Commander in Chief, Central Command ; and Anthony Zinni, retired four-star General in the United States Marine Corps.

Commanded by Marine Commander Carlos H. Robacio, BIM-5 took part in the defence of Mount Tumbledown in the 1982 Falklands War.

Different Argentine authorities have repeatedly decorated BIM-5's colors, while Marine Admiral Robacio is a holder of the French Légion d ' Honneur and he was awarded the Argentine Nation to the Valour in Combat Medal.

Commander Robacio ordered Marine Sub-Lieutenant Eduardo Villarraza to send a fighting patrol to deal with the fire base.

The Argentine commanding officer, Marine Commander Robacio and the RI 6 Officer, Major Jaimet were determined to continue fighting.

In the battle report Marine Commander Robacio wrote: I was convinced that we could still resist, and that is why I ordered the O Company-which was ready-to begin a counter-attack together with the M Company.

His command positions included: commanding officer of a platoon and two rifle companies during two tours of duty in Vietnam ; commanding officer of Special Training Branch and Recruit Series at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, California ( 1966 – 1968 ); commanding officer of Counter-Guerilla Warfare School, Northern Training Area on Okinawa ( 1970 ), Company officer at the United States Naval Academy ( 1970 – 1973 ); commanding officer of the Marine Barracks at Naval Air Station North Island, California ( 1973 – 1976 ), and commanding officer, 3rd Battalion 3rd Marines ( 1983 – 1985 ).

He was advanced to that grade on June 5, 1989, and assigned duties as the commanding general, 10th < nowiki > MEB / Assistant </ nowiki > division commander, 2nd Marine Division, Fleet Marine Force Atlantic, at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina on July 10, 1989.

On June 1, 1990, he assumed duties as the commanding general, 2nd Force Service Support Group < nowiki > Group / Commanding </ nowiki > general, 6th Marine Expeditionary Brigade, Fleet Marine Force Atlantic and commanded the 2d FSSG during the Gulf War.

General Krulak was assigned as commanding general, Marine Corps Combat Development Command, Quantico, on August 24, 1992, and was promoted to lieutenant general on September 1, 1992.

On July 22, 1994, he was assigned as commander of Marine Forces < nowiki > Pacific / commanding </ nowiki > general, Fleet Marine Force Pacific, and in March 1995 he was nominated to serve as the commandant of the Marine Corps.

He is the son of Charlotte Ann ( née Ground ) and James L. Jones, Sr., a decorated Marine in World War II who was an officer in the Observer Group and the commanding officer of its successor, the Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion.

During August 1990, Jones was assigned as the commanding officer of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit ( 24th MEU ) at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.

Returning to the United States, he was advanced to the rank of major general in July 1994 and was assigned as commanding general, 2nd Marine Division, Marine Forces Atlantic, MCB Camp Lejeune.

He served briefly in the United States Marine Corps Reserve and was an officer in the United States Navy during World War II, briefly commanding two ships, the USS YP-422 and USS PC-815.

Howland was occupied by a battalion of the United States Marine Corps in September 1943 and known as Howland Naval Air Station until May 1944.

* An infantry battalion, logistical battalion, combat battalion, or even the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps all have a battalion structure.

A United States Marine Corps battalion includes the battalion headquarters, consisting of the commanding officer ( usually a lieutenant colonel, sometimes a colonel ), an executive officer ( the second-in-command, usually a major ), the sergeant major, and the executive staff ( A-1 through A-8 ).

In the U. S. Marine Corps, an infantry or rifle battalion typically consists of a Headquarters and Service Company ( H & S Co .), three rifle, or line, companies ( designated alphabetically A through M depending upon which battalion of the parent regiment to which they are attached ) and a weapons company.

Marine infantry regiments use battalion and company designations as described above under Theatre of War II, with company letters D, H, and M not normally used but rather held in " reserve " for use in augmenting a fourth rifle company into each battalion as needed.

United States Marine Corps infantry battalions are task organized into battalion landing teams ( BLTs ) as the ground combat element ( GCE ) of a Marine expeditionary unit ( MEU ).

A " standard " U. S. Marine infantry battalion is typically supported by an artillery battery and a platoon each of tanks, amphibious assault vehicles, light armored reconnaissance vehicles, reconnaissance marines, and combat engineers.

A Marine Expeditionary Unit is normally built around the building blocks of a MAGTF: a reinforced Marine infantry battalion is the ground combat element, the aviation combat element is a composite helicopter squadron, a battalion-sized logistics combat element, and a command element.

Under his command, the 2nd Marine Raider battalion were issued with the semiautomatic M1 Garand rifle and were organized in the fireteam ( although it was called firegroup ) concept, 3 firegroups to a squad with a squad leader.

After sustaining severe wounds, Carlson was replaced and his battalion later disbanded and reorganized under conventional Marine doctrine of ten-man squads.

At the time of its activation, the Indianhead Division was composed of the 3rd Infantry Brigade, which included the 9th Infantry Regiment and the 23rd Infantry Regiment ; the 4th Marine Brigade, which consisted of the 5th Marine Regiment, the 6th Marine Regiment and the 6th Machine Gun Battalion ; a battalion of field artillery ; and various supporting units.

Later in World War II the Americal Division ( alongside the 37th Infantry Division, a Marine defense battalion, and supporting units ) took up positions on the newly invaded island of Bougainville, and warned by intelligence of the storm to come, utterly defeated a massive and sustained Japanese counter-attack, which began on 7 March 1944.

The popular tourist attraction of Shanklin Chine is also famous for its involvement in the Second World War, when it was used to carry one of the Operation Pluto pipelines and as training area for the 40 Royal Marine Commando battalion before the 1942 Dieppe Raid.

The top battalion leadership staff is student-led and made up of a battalion Commanding Officer, Executive Officer, and either a Master Chief or Sergeant Major, depending on whether the student is Navy or a Marine.