Word: leathernecks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ground with stones and pointing southeast, that Rother may have constructed to indicate the direction in which he was traveling. But after three days, the search party fails to find him. A month later, a second Marine-led search party has no more success in locating the missing Leatherneck...
...graduation in 1961, North attended the State University College at Brockport, majoring in English but dreaming about a military career. He enrolled in a campus Marine officers' training course and spent a summer at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. When he returned, he was dead set on being a leatherneck, and a friend's father helped him to gain admission to Annapolis...
...Justice Department assist the Navy in its probe. The memo's rationale is that American civilians will soon by implicated and that military investigators are overburdened by the scope of the scandal. Three Marine guards have been charged with espionage and one with fraternizing with Soviet women. Another Leatherneck suspected of spying has been recalled from his station in Brazil, where he was living with a Russian woman he met during a tour of duty at the Moscow embassy; he is currently being held at the Marine base in Quantico, Va. As a result of such discoveries, the State Department...
...been nearly 40 years since John Wayne, portraying Marine Sergeant John M. Stryker, was cut down by a sniper's bullet atop Mount Suribachi in Sands of Iwo Jima. But the Leatherneck values of courage, loyalty and discipline that Wayne came to personify still survive in recruiting offices around the country. Just last week in Atlanta, even as the Marines reeled from the Moscow spy scandal, Michael Dunn, 20, was ready to sign up. Like generations before him, Dunn says he wants to be a Marine "because I need the discipline." Dunn, a sophomore at Morris Brown College, explains...
Before the Delta Force, the Marine Corps was the closest thing America ever had to its own band of crack heroes, and a mystique developed about the leatherneck's superior qualities. Little boys never just played soldiers, they played marines...