Marine Corps, January 7, 1974

Speech given at the U.S. Marine Corps League.https://digitalcommons.shawnee.edu/vern_riffe_speeches/1004/thumbnail.jp

Major General Salinas delivers Commencement address

Major General Angela Salinas, U.S. Marine Corps (Retired), received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree and delivered the keynote address at Dominican University of California’s 2015 commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 16

201st Birthday of the U.S. Marine Corps

201st Birthday of the U.S. Marine Corp

Tanya Dube

Tanya Dube was born and raised in Massachusetts, and after high school joined the military, serving in the U.S. Marine Corps. She is now a school food service manager in Alaska.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/icn_ohistories/1160/thumbnail.jp

McGown, Thomas Neal, 1909-1966 (SC 1708)

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1708. Post cards, Christmas card, and telegram from Thomas Neal McGown, serving with the U.S. Marine Corps, to his wife Marguerite, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes other items and news clippings related to his Word War II service

Spirit of the Offensive

The spirit of the offensive, so characteristic and so much a part of the tradition of the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps, is an illusive and abstract quality, hard to define and difficult to describe, but nonetheless vital and meaningful

Wade, Charles Gilbert, III, b. 1986 (SC 1524)

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1524. Letters (18) written by Charles G. Wade, III to his parents, Charles G. Wade, Jr. and Judy Wade of Bowling Green, Kentucky. The letters discuss the younger Wade\u27s U.S. Marine Corps basic training at Parris Island, South Carolina

U.S. Army/ U.S. Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Center (COIN)

As we prosecute the current campaigns in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Horn of Africa, and the Philippines, the military must also prepare for an uncertain security situation beyond the present theaters of conflict. It is a future that will be heavily influenced by global competition for declining natural resources, rapidly rising populations in underprivileged and underdeveloped areas, unstable economic markets, and the continuing resurgence of violent religious and secular ideologies challenging democracy as a credible political theory. Additionally, U.S. Force must account for the impact of rapid information transfer, porous national borders, globalization, increased indigent migrating populations with elevated expectations, and a proliferation of technologies associated with making and employing weapons of mass destruction. To prepare for future contingencies in such a world, we must build capabilities that enable forces to rapidly adapt to crises emerging from unanticipated events. “Rapidly adapting” in this context means acquiring the ability to quickly change not only weapons and the way we supply ourselves, but the way we think and train to deal with new challenges in unfamiliar circumstances. To deal with this security environment, we must cultivate a whole-government intra-service and interagency culture of flexibility. It was for the purpose of enabling U.S. land forces to see more clearly, understand more readily, and transform more quickly that the U.S. Army Combined Arms Center (CAC) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and the U.S. Marine Corps Combat Development Center (MCCDC) at Quantico, Virginia, took action to jointly establish the Counterinsurgency Center (COIN Center), located at Fort Leavenworth in 2006. The information in this pamphlet outlines the COIN Center’s origin, current missions and purpose, and vision for the future. The COIN Center is still a work in progress. But it is one that is vitally needed to facilitate the development of a culture that enables us to more effectively adapt as a whole government when called upon to deal with future COIN or COIN-like threats

Mitsui’s Story or Mafia’s Story: A Different Reading of The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai

About the author Fred Smithberg is a retired airline pilot and U.S. Marine Corps officer. He is a graduate of the University of South Carolina and of the U.S. Naval War College. Now he lives in Savannah and takes history courses he loves at Armstrong State Universit