To meet situations of less than general nuclear war, we continue to maintain our carrier forces, our many service units abroad, our always ready Army strategic forces and Marine Corps divisions, and the civilian components.

At the same time, you have to face facts and realize that a man who's been in the Marine Corps all his life doesn't understand much about politics.

a Marine Corps of 3 divisions and 3 air wings with 175,000 men ; ;

`` I think they played Hail To The Chief better than the Marine Corps Band, and we are grateful to them '', President Kennedy remarked after mounting the bandstand and shaking hands with conductor James Christian Pfohl.

A year after he was catapulted over nine officers senior to him and made commandant of the Marine Corps, General David M. Shoup delivered a peppery annual report in the form of a `` happy, warless New Year '' greeting to his Pentagon staff.

Think, for example, of the spirit of the Marine Corps.

The spirit of the Marine Corps was present and operative before any of the present members of it came into it.

* HMLAT-303 is a United States Marine Corps helicopter squadron known as Atlas

* 1918 – Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time.

Though rarely used by modern conventional military units, abatises are still officially maintained in United States Army and Marine Corps training.

The AIM-7 Sparrow is an American, medium-range semi-active radar homing air-to-air missile operated by the United States Air Force, United States Navy and United States Marine Corps, as well as various allied air forces and navies.

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Category: United States Marine Corps equipment

A U. S. Marine Corps F / A-18 Hornet squadron will be the first forward-deployed unit with the AGM-88E.

Angry, impatient and short-tempered, Buzzcut is a Vietnam War veteran who served in the Marine Corps and, with the possible exception of Principal McVicker, hates the duo more than any other character.

The Brazilian Armed Forces (, ) is the unified military organization comprising the Brazilian Army ( including the Brazilian Army Aviation ), the Brazilian Navy ( including the Brazilian Marine Corps and Brazilian Naval Aviation ) and the Brazilian Air Force.

The Brazilian Navy which is the oldest of the Brazilian Armed Forces, includes the Brazilian Marine Corps and the Brazilian Naval Aviation.

Members of the Brazilian Marine Corps Special Operations Battalion.

The National Museum of the Marine Corps called it " the bitterest battle of the war for the Marines ".

In 2007 – 08, Berkeley received media attention due to demonstrations against a Marine Corps recruiting office in downtown Berkeley and a series of controversial motions by Berkeley's City Council regarding opposition to Marine recruiting.

( See Berkeley Marine Corps Recruiting Center controversy.

* Walter E. Boomer ( born 1938 ), retired former four-star General and Assistant Commandant of the United States Marine Corps and business executive

The mission of the Blue Angels is to enhance Navy and Marine Corps recruiting, and credibly represent Navy and Marine Corps aviation to the United States and its Armed Forces to America and other countries.

US Recon Marine jumping from a C-130

Among their missions, Air Guard C-130 crews airlifted elements of the 82d Airborne Division and the 3d Marine Expeditionary Force.

The station's components were transported by truck to Moffett Field, California and loaded onto three C-130 aircraft operated by the U. S. Marine Corps 4th Air Delivery Battalion.

Navy and Marine Corps F / A-18 demonstration pilots and naval flight officers are required to have a minimum of 1, 250 tactical jet hours and be carrier-qualified.

This demonstration not only was the last JATO performance of the squadron, but also the final JATO profile of the entire US Marine Corps.

On March 21, 2011, Ellsberg along with 35 other demonstrators were arrested during a demonstration outside the Marine Corps Base Quantico, in protest of Manning's current detention at Marine Corps Brig, Quantico.

Gillingham has been the scene of two notable disasters: on 11 July 1929 a public demonstration by Gillingham Fire Brigade went wrong, resulting in 15 fatalities ; and in the 1951 Gillingham bus disaster, 24 Royal Marine cadets aged 10 to 13 were killed in a road accident.

Based on the aforementioned early success of the program, the Marine Corps awarded a cost-plus contract to General Dynamics in July 2001 for the systems development and demonstration phase of the program, expected to be completed by October 2003.

The movie jumps to 1996 ; Childers and his Marine Expeditionary Unit are called to evacuate the United States Ambassador to Yemen from the embassy grounds, after a routine demonstration against American influence in the Persian Gulf turns into rock-throwing and sporadic fire from nearby rooftops.

( A US Marine Corps KC-130 on loan to the US Navy had been previously landed on the aircraft carrier in November 1963 as part of a Naval Air Systems Command demonstration.

The officer in charge of this demonstration was Communications Officer, Amphibious Force, Fleet Marine Force ( FMF ) Major James E. Jones, USMC at Camp Elliot, San Diego and Commanding Officer ; Amphibious Force, Pacific Fleet General Clayton B. Vogel heard of the event and attended the demonstration.

General Vogel was so impressed with the Camp Elliot demonstration that he asked the Commandant of the Marine Corps to recruit 200 Navajos.

The Southern Ilocos Sur School of Fisheries ( SISSOF ) metamorphosed from a fishery demonstration farm then known as the Ilocos Sur Marine Demonstration Farm ( ISMDF ) by virtue of PD 1050.

On August 15, 2005, Matt and Toni Matula, parents of Matthew Matula, a Texas Marine killed in Iraq, requested that the white cross representing their dead son as a victim of the war in Iraq be removed, stating that they did not wish their son's name to be part of an anti-war demonstration.

All team members, both officer and enlisted, pilots and staff officers, come from the ranks of regular Navy and United States Marine Corps units.

Air Force pilots, combat systems officers, Navy and Marine Corps Naval Aviators and Naval Flight Officers flying fighter aircraft are often considered eligible to receive a Silver Star upon becoming an ace ( i. e., having five or more confirmed aerial kills ), which entails the pilot and, in multi-seat fighters, the weapons system officer or radar intercept officer, intentionally and successfully risking his life multiple times under combat conditions and emerging victorious.

Glenn was a combat aviator in the Marine Corps and one of the Mercury Seven, who were the elite U. S. military test pilots selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) to operate the experimental Mercury spacecraft and become the first American astronauts.

Category: United States Marine Corps pilots of World War II

The 1st American Volunteer Group ( AVG ) of the Chinese Air Force in 1941 – 1942, famously nicknamed the Flying Tigers, was composed of pilots from the United States Army ( USAAF ), Navy ( USN ), and Marine Corps ( USMC ), recruited under presidential authority and commanded by Claire Lee Chennault.

Of the pilots, 60 came from the Navy and Marine Corps and 40 from the Army Air Corps.

He relocated to San Diego, California with his wife and two children, where he trained Navy and United States Marine Corps pilots.

Becoming an ace in a day became relatively common during World War II ; for instance, 68 U. S. pilots — 43 Army Air Forces, 18 Navy, and seven Marine Corps — were credited with the feat.

Early accommodation for personnel was under canvas and the first pilots arrived on 28 March 1918, commanded by Major John H D ’ Albiac a former Royal Marine aviator.

Category: United States Marine Corps pilots of World War II

* 1 March – The first four Royal Navy pilots, Lieutenants Charles R. Samson, R. Gregory, and Arthur M. Longmore of the Royal Navy and Lieutenant E. L. Gerrard of the Royal Marine Light Infantry, report for flight training at Eastchurch airfield, using borrowed Short S. 27 aircraft.

Although the weapon's rotary drive is theoretically quite reliable, its ammunition feed has been anything but: Marine pilots initially reported an alarmingly high jam rate ( sometimes greater than 30 %).

Colonel Robert Galer, a Marine Corps Ace from World War II, was the Commanding Officer of MAG-12 in 1952, when he was shot down behind enemy lines and protected by VMA-212 pilots until rescued by a Marine Corps helicopter.

During this 10 month assignment, he led 110 test pilots and technicians, participated as an AV-8B project test pilot, instructed students at the Test Pilot School, directed the Naval Air Test Center Museum, and became the first Marine to serve as Deputy Director and Chief of Staff of the Flight Test and Engineering Group.

Marine Corps pilots and aircrew are assigned to the base for training and providing air support to other land-based Marines in Okinawa.

Gabreski's 6½ MiG-15 kill credits make him one of seven U. S. pilots to become an ace in more than one war ( the others being Whisner, Colonel Harrison Thyng, Colonel James P. Hagerstrom, Colonel Vermont Garrison, Major George A. Davis, Jr., and U. S. Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel John F. Bolt ).

They trained the nucleus of pilots that would form HMR-161, the first Marine helicopter transport squadron.

The Naval Aviator Badge is earned by all U. S. Navy, Coast Guard, and Marine Corps pilots upon graduation from advanced flight schooling.

In addition to new pilots, several Boeing FB-5s were assigned to the squadron in 1929, the last of the in-line aircraft to be used by Marine squadrons.

For Navy and Marine Corps officers, the equivalent of the Navigator Badge is known as the Naval Flight Officer insignia and is similar to the Naval Aviator insignia for pilots, being differentiated by two crossed fouled anchors behind the insignia's United States shield, versus the single upright fouled anchor of their pilot counterparts.

Over the next 10 hours, scores of Marine, Navy and Air Force pilots ( many from USS Ranger ( CV / CVA-61 ) aircraft carrier ) attacked the convoy using a variety of ordnance.

This confirmed previous reports by U. S. Marine pilots and their commanders saying they had used Mark 77 firebombs on military targets: