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Marine Corps History On November 10, 1775, the Continental Congress passed a resolution stating that "two battalions of Marines be raised" for service as landing forces with the fleet. This established the Continental Marines and marked the birth of the United States Marine Corps. Serving on land and at sea, early Marines distinguished themselves in a number of important operations, including their first amphibious raid on foreign soil in the Bahamas in March 1776, under the command of the Corps'

Pullman, Washington on September 8, 1950. Mattis is a retired United States Marine Corps general and served as the 11th commander of the United States Central Command, Gen. Mattis was responsible for American military operations in the Middle East, Central Asia and Northeast Africa, from August, 2010 to March , 2013. Before Mattis replaced General Petraeus on August 11, 2010, he commanded the United States Joint Forces Command from November, 2007 to August 2010 and served as NATO 's Supreme Allied

Identification tags or also known as Dog Tags have been an important part of the military. It is a noticeable item that every service member is issued upon enlistment or commission. The biggest mystery is that there are many different colors that dog tags can come in, but to narrow it down one must look into the history first before understanding the meaning of colors. The history isn’t exactly hidden; it’s pretty easy to find in this case my source will be a familiar one to most being https://www

challenge government agencies, and force all branches of the Armed Forces to restructure their formations are “Wars of Silicon, Iron, and Shadow.” The four U.S. Services will need to rebalance, be adaptive, implement strategic agility, and reprioritize their programs to meet specific security issues posed by these conflicts. “Diverse adversaries will employ traditional, unconventional, and hybrid strategies to threaten U.S. National Security.” Joint Forces by 2025 will need to be leaner, technologically

Since 1985, eleven different versions of the High Mobility, Multi-Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) have been in service. The Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) is being developed by the Army and the Marine Corps as a successor to the HMMWV. The Department of Defense (DoD) initiated the JLTV program to replace its aging fleet of the HMMWV. The purpose of this essay is to determine if the high cost of the JLTV should preclude it from replacing the HMMWV as outlined in the 2010 Tactical Wheeled Vehicle Strategy

A. 20160922 The History of 6TH Marine Regiment The 6TH Marine Regiment is an infantry regiment of the United States Marine Corps based at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. The regiment falls under the command of the 2nd Marine Division of the II Marine Expeditionary Force. In 1917, the 6TH Marine Regiment was ativated on 11 July at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia to fight in World War I1. In early 1918, 6TH Marine Regiment joined the 5TH Marine Regiment and the 6TH Machine Gun

The current international security environment requires that the Joint Force transition its focus from counterinsurgency (COIN) operations to ensuring it rebalances to execute core functions. Joint Force 2025 must be primarily organized, trained, and equipped to deter and defeat existential threats and state adversaries in major combat operations (MCO). Secondarily, the Joint Force must be able to respond to other lower intensity crises that threaten U.S. interests. The current resource constrained

Marine Corps four-star general. Gen Mattis worked his way through the ranks. After graduating from Central Washington University at the age of 18, Gen. Mattis enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, where he would be commissioned a second lieutenant, O-1, in the U.S. Marine Corps. Throughout four decades Gen. Mattis would learn the leadership traits and characteristics that would ascend

into account the current military landscape that exists today, a joint task force (JTF) would be the ideal military response of the United States and collation partner’s while utilizing the regional military assets. Intelligence suggests guerilla forces are capable of a full scale offensive into Morocco in less than 36 hour notice, bringing the factors of time, force and space into consideration. The United States Air Force controls and operates numerous satellites for global positioning, missile

was the U.S. Marine Corps. The U.S. Marines played a major role in Operation Iraqi Freedom because they fought and won a lot