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...It’s good to be around real Marines.” In a bow to their Business School surroundings, the traditional re-telling of the Corps’ history was presented in a 15-minute PowerPoint presentation. Marines have celebrated the birthday since 1921, when Lt. Gen. John A. Lejeune, a Marine commander during World War I, wrote a summary of the history of the Corps and required that it be read to every Marine on November 10 each subsequent year to commemorate the birthday of the Corps. The guest of honor and keynote speaker at Thursday?...
...These guys don't want to die," said Lt. Kevin Graves, the communications officer for Golf Company. "They're not like the guys we met in Fallujah last year. Those guys wanted to kill Americans and they didn't care if they died...
...Jasim, a member of the Desert Protectors from Huseybah, said most of the foreign fighters had now fled to Baiji, Samara and Ramadi, which matches intelligence received by the staff of 2/1 commander's Lt. Col. Robert Oltman...
...isolated. It's now an island. There may not even be anywhere you can lay down," Reall says. The group packs sledgehammers, MREs and medical kits. They're ready in a jiffy, and then they wait. Talk turns to food. "You plan on eating alligator?" one team member asks Lt. Chuck Wagoner of the West Chester, Ohio, Fire Department, pointing at a huge knife hung on Wagoner's shoulder strap. "Trust me. They're nice to have," says the tall and stocky former Navy SEAL. "It's for two-legged animals as well as four." Once shuttled to the Lake...
...Marine Lt. Ed Cunningham's warning was spot-on: "It will be like flying into a hornet's nest." As he and Capt. Bryan Willard piloted their large, CH-53 helicopter closer to New Orleans on Saturday, the sky was frenetically dotted with all types and sizes of choppers, bobbing and weaving like bumblebees in a barely controlled chaos amidst the smoke of fires burning along the Mississippi River below. They searched for Hurricane Katrina survivors in large venues like the Convention Center-where a lone military air traffic controller with the call sign "Superman 00" somehow directed the evacuation...