“Perhaps more than any other group in America, the Marines have always been cultural warriors, open and unapologetic about advertising their identity, pre serving and sustaining it, and policing the boundaries that separate them from the uninitiated.”

The making of the Modern Marine Corps, Aaron B. O’Connell 2012

2008 Photo Galleries

“The success of the Marine Corps in gaining and holding the public fancy is a tradition with history to support it. The Army can learn much from the Leathernecks.”

Lt. Colonel D. Yeuell, USA, Army Infantry Journal