Lost a dear friend and mentor this week. He was a friend to my grandfather, father, and to me. A Korean war USMC vet and a longstanding member of Rancheros Visitadores, Ed Borcherdt will be missed. RIP Ed.
U.S. service members assigned to Special Purpose MAGTF - Crisis Response - Central Command are pallbearers for the service members killed in action during operations at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Aug. 27.
Marines with the 2nd Marine Logistics Group have volunteered to read books to Afghan children that have arrived at Marine Corps Base Quantico during Operation Allies Welcome.
Soldiers of 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard), sailors and Marines conduct Plane Side Honors at Dover Air Force base, to ensure the remain of the 13 service members killed recently in Afghanistan are transferred with the utmost dignity and respect.
U.S. service members assigned to Special Purpose MAGTF - Crisis Response - Central Command are pallbearers for the service members killed in action during operations at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Aug. 27.
Despite thursday’s suicide bombing (three detonations, 170 civilian deaths, 13 US personnel KIA), evacuation at Kabul Airport carries on: In the past 24 hours, 35 US military flights and 54 coalition flights evacuated 12,500 people from Kabul. 105,000 people have been airlifted from the Afghan capital since August the 14th.
The supercarrier, her airwing, and her escorting carrier strike groupcruisersanddestroyers are approaching the end of a long deployment to the other side of the world.
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TheNimitz carrier strike group – including the “Death Rattlers” – has interrupted their long journey home….reversed course….and returned to the volatile Persian Gulf(within 100 nm – 185 km / 115 miles –ofIran from time to time)….as November morphs into December 2020….likely delaying their (over 7,000 Sailors) return home to Norfolk, VAuntilafter the upcoming year-end Holidays, and current volatile tensions between Iran and Israelcalm.
(Note: This is over the alleged-Israeli assassination of Iran’s top nuclear scientist by remote control near the capital city of Tehran a few days ago. Iran, understandably, could lash out violently, igniting a Middle East war. This is a potentially very dangerous situation.)
Butch, the war dog partnered with Private First Class Rez P. Hester of the 7th War Dog Platoon, watches over his master while he catches some rest in a foxhole on Iwo Jima. February 20, 1945
Landing craft loaded with Marines head towards the beaches of Inchon. Each landing craft carries two ladders to allow their occupants to scale the seawall. September 15, 1950
A U.S. Marine Corps CH-53E Super Stallion flies over the objective during a Heavy Huey Raid at K-9 Village, Yuma Proving Grounds, Ariz., Oct. 7, 2015. The exercise is part of Weapons and Tactics Instructor (WTI) 1-16, a seven-week training event hosted by Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron One (MAWTS-1) cadre. MAWTS-1 provides standardized tactical training and certification of unit instructor qualifications to support Marine Aviation Training and Readiness and assists in developing and employing aviation weapons and tactics. (U.S. Marine Corps photograph by SSgt. Artur Shvartsberg, MAWTS-1 COMCAM/ Released)
CLDW 87.B1.F14.11 by State Archives of North Carolina Raleigh, NC Via Flickr: Contact print of a photograph of U.S. Marines Carl D. Stancil of Raleigh, NC (center), and an unidentified Marine (left), standing on a dirt road talking with an local woman and a young child sitting on a horse-drawn cart somewhere in the hills of the region of Macedonia, Greece, around the late 1950s or early 1960s [circa 1950s-1960s]. From Carl D. Stancil Papers, CLDW 87, Cold War Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
