Leatherneck 2005: Vol 88 Index

2005·1.9 MB·English

2005 ANNUAL REFERENCE INDEX
AUTHORS Observing Corps’ BirthdayJ;a n pg 50 Divide; Apr pg 50
___, Corps’ Team Triumphs During 29th Perkins, Sgt Jimmie, Road to Success, The:
Alexander, USMC (Ret), Col Joseph H., Fighting Marine Corps Marathon; Jan pg 42 Recruiting in Rural America; Sep pg 56
for Okinawa, 1945 (World War II: 60 Years Ago); ____, Country Singer Sticks by Marines; Mar pg 46 Powers, USMC (Ret), Col E. W., What Our NCOs
Apr pg 16 ____, Field Medical Service School; Apr pg 30 Are Saying: Combat-Veteran Marines Relay
Allison, Dr. F H., VMFA-321 “Hell’s Angels”: ___, “Fox” 2/23: Reserve Marines Embody Experiences at Lessons-Learned Conference;
District of Columbia Defenders Decommissioned; Patriotism; May pg 52 Dec pg 18
May pg 30 _____, Marine Corps IG Focuses on Combat Simpson, Ross W., Dogs of War; Apr pg 36
Baker, SSgt Rusty, Swan Song at FOB Salerno: Readiness; Jul pg 40 ___, Fallujah: A Four-Letter Word (part one of
Vietnam Combat Veteran Deploys for _____, Marine Corps Seeks Out New Gear at two); Feb pg 16
One Last “Oorah” in Afghanistan; Jan pg 32 SHOT Show; Apr pg 40 ___, Fallujah: A Four-Letter Word (part two of
Bedwell, Don, Marine Bands: Bandsmen Give Holmstedt, Kirsten A., II MEF Leathernecks Go two); Mar pg 14
Performances of Their Lives in Iraq; Oct pg 22 to War Armed With Arabic; Mar pg 36 __, “Incredible Hulk,” New Expeditionary
Bevilacqua, USMC (Ret), Maj Allan C., John J. Karcher, Mary D., Female Marines Put Training Fighting Vehicle Is Corps’ “Superhero” to the
Nagazyna: Hero or Liberty Risk?; Jun pg 20 to the Test; Feb pg 44 Rescue; Jan pg 22
Bone, Margaret, Marine Air Command and ___, Marine Philatelists Stick Together Sloan, Cpl Tom, Patrolling Ar Ramadi (1/5);
(sidebar); Nov pg 48 Jun pg 24
Control Sy stem, The: It’s the Glue That Holds
the MAGTF Together; May pg 48 ____, Marines on His Canvas: The Art of West, Bing, “Five Corporals” (part one of two);
, Marines and the Osprey: How V-22 Is Charles H. Waterhouse; Jun pg 28 Nov pg 36
Progressing and What the Users Think; Keene, R. R., Aftermath of Katrina: Marines ___, “Five Corporals” (part two of two); Dec pg 22
May pg 36 Rescued Gulf Coast Residents, Delivered
Boring, USMC (Ret), GySgt John, “Semper Fi: Supplies, Helped Clean Up; Nov pg 30 AVIATION
Che Definitive Ilustrated History of the ____, Breaking New Ground: Former Sergeant
U.S. Marines”; Nov pg 54 Major of the Marine Corps Is Setting the New 3dMAW Provided Security and Transport During
Brett, Homer M., MACE Staff Hosts Standard for NATO’s NCOs; Feb pg 28 Elections; Apr pg 25
World War II Marine Raiders; Nov pg : ____, Four Legendary Leaders Honored With \ftermath of Katrina: Marines Rescued Gulf
Brill Jr., USMC (Ret), LtCol Arthur P., Their Own Stamps; Nov pg 46 Coast Residents, Delivered Supplies, Helped
Interview With the 33rd CMC, An: ____, Hill 881 South; Sep pg 18 Clean Up (HMH-461 (Rein), HMH-464,
General Michael W. Hagee; Jul pg 12 ____, Ina Historic Move, the Corps to Stand Up HMM-365, HMH-772, HMLA- 773); Nov pg 30
Camp Jr., USMC (Ret), Col Dick, Return to a Special Ops Command; Dec pg 46 \l Anbar Province Becomes Home for Air Units
“Sulphur Island”; Jun pg 42 ___, Medals & Decorations—Acts of Valor: (MWSS-371); Oct pg 21
Carpenter, Dennis, Corps Athletes of the Past; How the Corps Awards Combat Medals and \viation Combat Element Excels During
Oct pg 38 Decorations; Aug pg 32 Operation River Blitz (2dMAW); May pg 24
Carrington, Gene, Who Is John Gunn?; Oct pg 41 ____, National Museum of the Marine Corps: Heavy Lift Replacement: A Vital Marine Corps
Chavez, USMC (Ret), CWO-5 Margarette, Award-Winning Smithsonian Program Manager Program (CH-53E Super Stallion); May pg 18
Colonel Fraser West: Marine Cowboy; Jul pg 22 Appointed First Director; Oct pg 26 Hornets Provided the Sting for Operation Spear
Connolly, Tim, Military Occupational Specialty ___, “Sudden Death Echo”: Veterans of (VMFA(AW)-224); Sep pg 28
Road Maps; Oct pge <2< 8 Operation Texas Recall 38 Years Ago When Intelligence Analysts’ Work Leads to Insurgents’
Crumley, B. L., Starlite: “The Magnificent Hundreds of NVA Erupted From the Ground; Capture (HMH-465, HMLA-269 & G- 2
Bastards” Hit a Hot LZ (Vietnam: 40 Years Ago); Feb pg 34 section, 24MAW (Fwd), Al Asad); Aug pg 17
Sep pg 52 ___, Taking Down Fallujah: House by House, “Lima,” 3/2 Provides Security for 24MAW and
Curcio, USMC (Ret), Col C. K., Insights From Room by Room (I MEF, Operation Phantom Citizens (Al Asad, Iraq); Jun pg 17
Wounded NCOs: Are NCOs Prepared for Fury/Operation Al Fajr); Jan pg 12 Marine Air Command and Control System, The:
‘Today’s Small-Unit Leadership?; Jul pg 32 Kreisher, Otto, Heavy Lift Replacement: A Vital It’s the Glue That Holds the MAGTF Together;
DeFilippis, Cpl Rocco and Cpl C. Alex Herron, Marine Corps Program (CH-53E Super Stallion); May pg 48
Providing Light Attack Air Support With a May pg 18 Marine Corps Aircraft Made Their Airmail Stamp
Potent Punch; Aug pg 24 , War’s End: 3d Fleet Marines Among First on NicaraguaJ;a n pg 28
Dysart, Maj Carolyn, Transitioning Marines to Occupy Japan in 1945 (World War II: 60 Years Marines and the Osprey: How V-22 Is Progressing
Benefit as “Marine For Life” Program Grows; Ago); Sep pg 32 and What the Users Think; May pg 36
Feb pg 48 Lehrack, USMC (Ret), LtCol OttoJ. ,O peration Only Way to Provide Relief Was to Bring It From
Elliott, USMC (Ret), Maj John M., Marine Corps Starlite: The First Battle of the Vietnam War; the Sea, The (15th MEU(SOC)’s ACE, Indian
Aircraft Made Their Airmail Stamp on Aug pg 12 Ocean); Mar pg 23
Nicaragua; Jan pg 28 Lewis, USMCR (Ret), LtCol Jack, Forgotten Providing Light Attack Air Support With a Potent
Escobar, Cpl Mike, Unlocking Doors to Iraq’s Battalion, The: Members of the Samoan Battalion, Punch (HMLA-775); Aug pg 24
Future: Ist Battalion, 6th Marines Trains Iraqi U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Served With Purpose VMFA-321 “Hell’s Angels”: District of Columbia
Security Forces; Oct pg 14 in World War II; Mar pg 28 Defenders Decommissioned; May pg 30
Ford, USMC (Ret), Col W. G., Meeting the Needs ____, Marines of the North: Recon Training in
of the Warfighter; Sep pg 40 Alaska’s Wilds and Weather Takes Special BOOKS
Friel, LCpl Lucian, Attack at Husaybah: “India,” Planning, Execution; Aug pg 42
3/2’s Stand Against the Insurgency (Operation , Technology Versus Tradition: CheyTac’s Ambush Alley: The Most Extraordinary Battle of
Iraqi Freedom II); Jul pg 28 Rifle Brings a New Dimension to Sniper Work the Iraq War; Dec pg 52
Hammel, Eric, Tinian; Aug pg 20 for Marines in Iraq; Jan pg 36 America’s Battalion: Marines in the First Gulf War;
Hannings, Bud, Interview With a Patriot, An; Merna, USMC (Ret), IstLt Gerald F., Extreme Jun pg 54
Jun pg 46 Leadership to Some; Routine to Parris Island Charlie Battery: A Marine Artillery Unit in Iraq;
Hemingway, Al, Death Trap on Hill 881 South; Marines; Mar pg 40 Aug pg 48
Aug pg 26 Miller, J. Michael, Single Day of Combat for a Con Thien: The Hill of Angels; Feb pg 52
Herron, Cpl C. Alex and Cpl Rocco DeFilippis, Marine Corps Rifle Company, A (World War I, D-Days in the Pacific; Sep pg 74
Providing Light Attack Air Support With a part one of two); Nov pg 24 Down South: One Tour in Vietnam; Feb pg 52
Potent Punch; Aug pg 24 ___, Single Day of Combat for a Marine Corps Every Marine: 1968 Vietnam, A Battle for Go Noi
Hevezi, GySgt Matt, Battle for Fallujah Rifle Company, A: The Memory (World War I, Island; Oct pg 53
“They've Chosen a Path of Violence”; Dec pg 40 part two of two); Dec pg 48 Fearless Man, The: A Novel of Vietnam; Jun pg 54
Hoellwarth, John, Belles of the Ball, The: Marine O’Brien, USMCR (Ret), Capt Cyril J., Montford For God and Country: One Chaplain’s Perspective
Spouses Honor Deployed Husbands by Point to Iwo Jima: Combat Bridged the Racial of War and the Life Lessons Learned; Jul pg 46
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AUTHORS Observing Corps’ BirthdayJ;a n pg 50 Divide; Apr pg 50
___, Corps’ Team Triumphs During 29th Perkins, Sgt Jimmie, Road to Success, The:
Alexander, USMC (Ret), Col Joseph H., Fighting Marine Corps Marathon; Jan pg 42 Recruiting in Rural America; Sep pg 56
for Okinawa, 1945 (World War II: 60 Years Ago); ____, Country Singer Sticks by Marines; Mar pg 46 Powers, USMC (Ret), Col E. W., What Our NCOs
Apr pg 16 ____, Field Medical Service School; Apr pg 30 Are Saying: Combat-Veteran Marines Relay
Allison, Dr. F H., VMFA-321 “Hell’s Angels”: ___, “Fox” 2/23: Reserve Marines Embody Experiences at Lessons-Learned Conference;
District of Columbia Defenders Decommissioned; Patriotism; May pg 52 Dec pg 18
May pg 30 _____, Marine Corps IG Focuses on Combat Simpson, Ross W., Dogs of War; Apr pg 36
Baker, SSgt Rusty, Swan Song at FOB Salerno: Readiness; Jul pg 40 ___, Fallujah: A Four-Letter Word (part one of
Vietnam Combat Veteran Deploys for _____, Marine Corps Seeks Out New Gear at two); Feb pg 16
One Last “Oorah” in Afghanistan; Jan pg 32 SHOT Show; Apr pg 40 ___, Fallujah: A Four-Letter Word (part two of
Bedwell, Don, Marine Bands: Bandsmen Give Holmstedt, Kirsten A., II MEF Leathernecks Go two); Mar pg 14
Performances of Their Lives in Iraq; Oct pg 22 to War Armed With Arabic; Mar pg 36 __, “Incredible Hulk,” New Expeditionary
Bevilacqua, USMC (Ret), Maj Allan C., John J. Karcher, Mary D., Female Marines Put Training Fighting Vehicle Is Corps’ “Superhero” to the
Nagazyna: Hero or Liberty Risk?; Jun pg 20 to the Test; Feb pg 44 Rescue; Jan pg 22
Bone, Margaret, Marine Air Command and ___, Marine Philatelists Stick Together Sloan, Cpl Tom, Patrolling Ar Ramadi (1/5);
(sidebar); Nov pg 48 Jun pg 24
Control Sy stem, The: It’s the Glue That Holds
the MAGTF Together; May pg 48 ____, Marines on His Canvas: The Art of West, Bing, “Five Corporals” (part one of two);
, Marines and the Osprey: How V-22 Is Charles H. Waterhouse; Jun pg 28 Nov pg 36
Progressing and What the Users Think; Keene, R. R., Aftermath of Katrina: Marines ___, “Five Corporals” (part two of two); Dec pg 22
May pg 36 Rescued Gulf Coast Residents, Delivered
Boring, USMC (Ret), GySgt John, “Semper Fi: Supplies, Helped Clean Up; Nov pg 30 AVIATION
Che Definitive Ilustrated History of the ____, Breaking New Ground: Former Sergeant
U.S. Marines”; Nov pg 54 Major of the Marine Corps Is Setting the New 3dMAW Provided Security and Transport During
Brett, Homer M., MACE Staff Hosts Standard for NATO’s NCOs; Feb pg 28 Elections; Apr pg 25
World War II Marine Raiders; Nov pg : ____, Four Legendary Leaders Honored With \ftermath of Katrina: Marines Rescued Gulf
Brill Jr., USMC (Ret), LtCol Arthur P., Their Own Stamps; Nov pg 46 Coast Residents, Delivered Supplies, Helped
Interview With the 33rd CMC, An: ____, Hill 881 South; Sep pg 18 Clean Up (HMH-461 (Rein), HMH-464,
General Michael W. Hagee; Jul pg 12 ____, Ina Historic Move, the Corps to Stand Up HMM-365, HMH-772, HMLA- 773); Nov pg 30
Camp Jr., USMC (Ret), Col Dick, Return to a Special Ops Command; Dec pg 46 \l Anbar Province Becomes Home for Air Units
“Sulphur Island”; Jun pg 42 ___, Medals & Decorations—Acts of Valor: (MWSS-371); Oct pg 21
Carpenter, Dennis, Corps Athletes of the Past; How the Corps Awards Combat Medals and \viation Combat Element Excels During
Oct pg 38 Decorations; Aug pg 32 Operation River Blitz (2dMAW); May pg 24
Carrington, Gene, Who Is John Gunn?; Oct pg 41 ____, National Museum of the Marine Corps: Heavy Lift Replacement: A Vital Marine Corps
Chavez, USMC (Ret), CWO-5 Margarette, Award-Winning Smithsonian Program Manager Program (CH-53E Super Stallion); May pg 18
Colonel Fraser West: Marine Cowboy; Jul pg 22 Appointed First Director; Oct pg 26 Hornets Provided the Sting for Operation Spear
Connolly, Tim, Military Occupational Specialty ___, “Sudden Death Echo”: Veterans of (VMFA(AW)-224); Sep pg 28
Road Maps; Oct pge <2< 8 Operation Texas Recall 38 Years Ago When Intelligence Analysts’ Work Leads to Insurgents’
Crumley, B. L., Starlite: “The Magnificent Hundreds of NVA Erupted From the Ground; Capture (HMH-465, HMLA-269 & G- 2
Bastards” Hit a Hot LZ (Vietnam: 40 Years Ago); Feb pg 34 section, 24MAW (Fwd), Al Asad); Aug pg 17
Sep pg 52 ___, Taking Down Fallujah: House by House, “Lima,” 3/2 Provides Security for 24MAW and
Curcio, USMC (Ret), Col C. K., Insights From Room by Room (I MEF, Operation Phantom Citizens (Al Asad, Iraq); Jun pg 17
Wounded NCOs: Are NCOs Prepared for Fury/Operation Al Fajr); Jan pg 12 Marine Air Command and Control System, The:
‘Today’s Small-Unit Leadership?; Jul pg 32 Kreisher, Otto, Heavy Lift Replacement: A Vital It’s the Glue That Holds the MAGTF Together;
DeFilippis, Cpl Rocco and Cpl C. Alex Herron, Marine Corps Program (CH-53E Super Stallion); May pg 48
Providing Light Attack Air Support With a May pg 18 Marine Corps Aircraft Made Their Airmail Stamp
Potent Punch; Aug pg 24 , War’s End: 3d Fleet Marines Among First on NicaraguaJ;a n pg 28
Dysart, Maj Carolyn, Transitioning Marines to Occupy Japan in 1945 (World War II: 60 Years Marines and the Osprey: How V-22 Is Progressing
Benefit as “Marine For Life” Program Grows; Ago); Sep pg 32 and What the Users Think; May pg 36
Feb pg 48 Lehrack, USMC (Ret), LtCol OttoJ. ,O peration Only Way to Provide Relief Was to Bring It From
Elliott, USMC (Ret), Maj John M., Marine Corps Starlite: The First Battle of the Vietnam War; the Sea, The (15th MEU(SOC)’s ACE, Indian
Aircraft Made Their Airmail Stamp on Aug pg 12 Ocean); Mar pg 23
Nicaragua; Jan pg 28 Lewis, USMCR (Ret), LtCol Jack, Forgotten Providing Light Attack Air Support With a Potent
Escobar, Cpl Mike, Unlocking Doors to Iraq’s Battalion, The: Members of the Samoan Battalion, Punch (HMLA-775); Aug pg 24
Future: Ist Battalion, 6th Marines Trains Iraqi U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Served With Purpose VMFA-321 “Hell’s Angels”: District of Columbia
Security Forces; Oct pg 14 in World War II; Mar pg 28 Defenders Decommissioned; May pg 30
Ford, USMC (Ret), Col W. G., Meeting the Needs ____, Marines of the North: Recon Training in
of the Warfighter; Sep pg 40 Alaska’s Wilds and Weather Takes Special BOOKS
Friel, LCpl Lucian, Attack at Husaybah: “India,” Planning, Execution; Aug pg 42
3/2’s Stand Against the Insurgency (Operation , Technology Versus Tradition: CheyTac’s Ambush Alley: The Most Extraordinary Battle of
Iraqi Freedom II); Jul pg 28 Rifle Brings a New Dimension to Sniper Work the Iraq War; Dec pg 52
Hammel, Eric, Tinian; Aug pg 20 for Marines in Iraq; Jan pg 36 America’s Battalion: Marines in the First Gulf War;
Hannings, Bud, Interview With a Patriot, An; Merna, USMC (Ret), IstLt Gerald F., Extreme Jun pg 54
Jun pg 46 Leadership to Some; Routine to Parris Island Charlie Battery: A Marine Artillery Unit in Iraq;
Hemingway, Al, Death Trap on Hill 881 South; Marines; Mar pg 40 Aug pg 48
Aug pg 26 Miller, J. Michael, Single Day of Combat for a Con Thien: The Hill of Angels; Feb pg 52
Herron, Cpl C. Alex and Cpl Rocco DeFilippis, Marine Corps Rifle Company, A (World War I, D-Days in the Pacific; Sep pg 74
Providing Light Attack Air Support With a part one of two); Nov pg 24 Down South: One Tour in Vietnam; Feb pg 52
Potent Punch; Aug pg 24 ___, Single Day of Combat for a Marine Corps Every Marine: 1968 Vietnam, A Battle for Go Noi
Hevezi, GySgt Matt, Battle for Fallujah Rifle Company, A: The Memory (World War I, Island; Oct pg 53
“They've Chosen a Path of Violence”; Dec pg 40 part two of two); Dec pg 48 Fearless Man, The: A Novel of Vietnam; Jun pg 54
Hoellwarth, John, Belles of the Ball, The: Marine O’Brien, USMCR (Ret), Capt Cyril J., Montford For God and Country: One Chaplain’s Perspective
Spouses Honor Deployed Husbands by Point to Iwo Jima: Combat Bridged the Racial of War and the Life Lessons Learned; Jul pg 46
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Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain Racial Divide; Apr pg 50 3dMAW Provided Security and Transport During
America and the New Face of American War; Return to “Sulphur Island”; Jun pg 42 Elections; Apr pg 25
Mar pg 58 Tinian; Aug pg 20 Al Anbar Province Becomes Home for Air Units
Goodnight Saigon: The ‘True Story of the U.S. War’s End: 3d Fleet Marines Among First to (MWSS-371); Oct pg 21
Marines’ Last Days in Vietnam; May pg 59 Occupy Japan in 1945; Sep pg 32 “Alpha” Co Patrols City, Disrupts Terrorists,
Guadalcanal Marine; Jun pg 55 Fosters Trust (BLT 1/1, 15th MEU(SOC),
Gunner’s Glory: Untold Stories of Marine VIETNAM Baghdad); Jun pg 19
Machine Gunners; Aug pg 49 “Alpha” Co’s Sapper Teams Work to Negate the
“Tm Staying With My Boys. . .”: The Heroic Life Death Trap on Hill 881 South; Aug pg 26 Mine Threat (Co A, 6th Engineer Bn, Al Asad);
of Sgt. John Basilone, USMC; Apr pg 60 Hill 881 South; Sep pg 18 Jun pg 18
Imitate the Tiger; Jul pg 47 Operation Starlite: The First Battle of the Vietnam \mtracker Translates Success (Fallujah); Aug pg 18
Impact Zone: The Battle of the DMZ in Vietnam, War; Aug pg 12 As Fallujans Return, Marines and Iraqis Provide
1967-1968; Jan pg 54 Starlite: “The Magnificent Bastards” Hit a Hot LZ; Humanitarian Aid (1st FSSG); Mar pg 26
John Wayne Filmography, The; Mar pg 58 Sep pg 52 Attack at Husaybah: “India,” 3/2’s Stand Against
McCoy’s Marines: Darkside to Baghdad; Apr pg 60 “Sudden Death Echo”: Veterans of Operation the InsurgencyJ;u l pg 28
Militant Tricks: Battlefield Ruses of the Islamic Texas Recall 38 Years Ago When Hundreds of Aviation Combat Element Exceis During
Insurgent; Nov pg 64 NVA Erupted From the Ground; Feb pg 34 Operation River Blitz (24MAW); May pg 24
One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer; Battalion Tells Squad Leader “You’ve Done
Oct pg 52 THE WAR ON TERROR Enough” (Cpl Robert J. Mitchell, K/3/1);
Pacific Warriors: The U.S. Marines in World War II: Feb pg 25
\ Pictorial Tribute; Sep pg 64 15th MEU(SOC) Had Trained for Just Such a Battle for Fallujah—*They’ve Chosen a Path of
Patch of Ground, A: Khe Sanh Remembered; Relief/ Aid Mission (Indian Ocean); Mar pg 23 Violence”; Dec pg 40
Sep pg 65 Dogs of War; Apr pg 36 Break-Through Meeting Paves Way for a New
Scariest Place in the World, The: A Marine Female Marines Put Training to the Test; Feb pg 44 Iraq (A/1/6, Saqlawiyah); Jul pg 21
Returns to North Korea; May pg 58 Full-time, Mobile, Quick Response Antiterrorism Bringing On the Big Guns (2d Tank Bn,
Semper Fi: The Definitive Illustrated History of Battalion (4th MEB (AT)); Jan pg 16 2dMarDiv, Al Fallujah); Oct pg 20
the U.S. Marines; Nov pg 54 Marines Deliver Much-Needed School Supplies Dog-Day Afternoons With Spike and Ali (2d
‘Tactics of the Crescent Moon: Militant Muslim in Nangalam (3/3, Afghanistan); Mar pg 25 Military Police Bn, RCT-2, Al Qa’im); Dec pg 17
Combat Methods; Jan pg 55 Okinawa-Based Marines Provide Aid to the “Echo” Company Stabs Westward During
Voices of Courage: The Battle for Khe Sanh, Philippines (3d MEB); Mar pg 24 Operation Scimitar (IIF Plt, Co E, 3d Recon Bn,
Vietnam; Sep pg 65 Only Way to Provide Relief Was to Bring It From 2dMarD iv, Al Anbar province); Sep pg 30
the Sea, The (15th MEU(SOC), Indian Ocean); Ensuring Protection for Voters on the Outer
CORPS ALBUM Mar pg 23 Reaches of Iraq; Apr pg 26
President Bush Highly Praises Military Support in Fallujah: A Four-Letter Word (part one of two);
Celebrating the Corps’ Birthday in Every Clime South Asia; Mar pg 22 Feb pg 16
and Place; Nov pg 50 Fallujah: A Four-Letter Word (part two of two);
Marine Corps Aviation in the 1920s and 730s; OPERATION ENDURING Mar pg 14
May pg 46 FREEDOM (Afghanistan) Female Marines Train to Search Iraqi Women;
Photos From the Bottom of the Footlocker; Oct pg 50 Jan pg 18
3/6 Takes Up the Challenge in and Around Khowst; “Fire Mission!” The Big Guns Are Still Counted
HISTORY Jan pg 20 On for Fire Support (B/1/11, Fallujah); Dec pg 15
Afghans Go to the Polls to Vote; Marines Provide Firefight Was the Longest 15 Seconds of Marines’
Corps Athletes of the Past; Oct pg 38 Security (2/3, Korengal Valley); Nov pg 22 Lives (K/3/5, Operation Al Fajr, Fallujah);
For the First Time, A Marine to Chair the Joint Co E Repels Ambush in Afghanistan (2/3, Feb pg 26
Chiefs of Staff! (Gen Peter Pace); Jun pg 14 Korengal Valley); Nov pg 21 “Five Corporals” (part one of two, From the book:
Four Legendary Leaders Honored With Their NATO Commander Meets With Afghan President “No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the
Own Stamps; Nov pg 46 Karzai (Kabal); Sep pg 26 Battle for Fallujah”); Nov pg 36
Hail to the Chief; Mar pg 20 Small, Remote Outpost Somewhere in “Five Corporals” (part two of two, From the book:
Marine Corps Aircraft Made Their Airmail Stamp Afghanistan, A (2/3, Camp Blessing, Nangalam); “No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the
on Nicaragua; Jan pg 28 Dec pg 14 Battle for Fallujah”); Dec pg 22
Marines on His Canvas: The Art of Charles H. Swan Song at FOB Salerno: Vietnam Combat Flying Nurses Battle Time and Gunfire to Save
Waterhouse; Jun pg 28 Veteran Deploys for One Last “Oorah” in Lives (SSTP, Ist FSSG); May pg 27
National Museum of the Marine Corps: Award- Afghanistan; Jan pg 32 “Fox” 2/23: Reserve Marines Embody Patriotism;
Winning Smithsonian Program Manager Taking Fight to the Mountains, Where Platoons May pg 52
Appointed First Director; Oct pg 26 Swooped In on Terrorists’ Sanctuaries (3/3, Hornets Provided the Sting for Operation Spear
Who Is John Gunn?; Oct pg 41 Operation Spurs); Apr pg 24 (VMFA(AW)-224); Sep pg 28
Village Leaders Help Marines Uncover, Capture How Leathernecks in Fallujah Celebrated Their
WORLD WAR | Terrorists (3/3); May pg 28 229th Birthday; Feb pg 22
IIF Platoon Wraps Up Operation Scimitar (Co FE,
John J. Nagazyna: Hero or Liberty Risk?; Jun pg 20 OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM 3d Recon Bn, 2dMarDiv, Al Anbar province);
Single Day of Combat for a Marine Corps Rifle Sep pg 30
Company, A (part one of two); Nov pg 24 1/5 Marines Halt Traffic, Capture Insurgents Intelligence Analysts’ Work Leads to Insurgents’
Single Day of Combat for a Marine Corps Rifle (Operation Fire, Ar Ramadi); Sep pg 26 Capture (G-2 section, 24MAW (Fwd), Al Asad);
Company, A: The Memory (part two of two); 1/5 Searches for Enemy (Ar Ramadi); Jul pg 19 Aug pg 17
Dec pg 48 Il MEF Leathernecks Go to War Armed With Interview With the 33rd CMC, An: General
Arabic; Mar pg 36 Michael W. Hagee; Jul pg 12
WORLD WAR II 2dMarDiv Takes Control of Al Anbar Province; Keeping the Pressure on Insurgents and Terrorists
Jun pg 16 (RCT-2, Operation New Market, Haditha);
Fighting for Okinawa, 1945; Apr pg 16 2dMarDiv Uses (Operation) Quick Strike in Aug pg 16
Forgotten Battalion, The: Members of the Samoan Western Iraq to Disrupt Terrorists; Nov pg 18 “Kilo” Co, 3/2 Captures Terrorist Explosives
Battalion, U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Served 3/8—A Strong Presence (Fallujah); Jul pg 20 Instructor (Sadah); Jun pg 16
With Purpose in World War II; Mar pg 28 3d Platoon’s List of the Top 20 “Must-Have Items “Lima,” 3/2 Provides Security for 24MAW and
Montford Point to lwo Jima: Combat Bridged the in Iraq” (C/ 1/3); Feb pg 23 Citizens (Al Asad); Jun pg 17
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Marine Assistance Made Casting Ballots Easier In a Historic Move, the Corps to Stand Up a West, USMC (Ret), Col Fraser E. (Colonel Fraser
and Safer (4th CAG and Ist FSSG); Apr pg 27 Special Ops Command; Dec pg 46 West: Marine Cowboy); Jul pg 22
Marine Bands: Bandsmen Give Performances of Insights From Wounded NCOs: Are NCOs Williams, MSgt Harry E. (Swan Song at FOB
Their Lives in Iraq; Oct pg 22 Prepared for Today’s Small-Unit Leadership?; Salerno: Vietnam Combat Veteran Deploys for
On Call and Ready to Back Up Iraqi Forces Jul pg 32 One Last “Oorah” in Afghanistan); Jan pg 32
During Elections (BLT 1/4, 11th MEU(SOC)); Interview With a Patriot, An; Jun pg 46 Wright, Chely (Country Singer Sticks by
Apr pg 28 Marine Corps IG Focuses on Combat Readiness; Marines); Mar pg 46
Patrolling Ar Ramadi (1/5); Jun pg 24 Jul pg 40
Proactive Patrols Prevent Possible Mine Strikes Message From the Commandant of the Marine RESEARCH AND DEVLOPMENT
(5th Squad, MP Det, Combat Logistics Bn 2, Corps, A; Nov pg 16 (Technology/Gear)
2d FSSG (Fwd), Al Asad to Al Qa’im); Sep pg 29 Military Occupational Specialty Road Maps; Oct pg 28
Progress in Western Province Leaves Commander Once Upon a Time at Christmas; Dec pg 28 Heavy Lift Replacement: A Vital Marine Corps
Optimistic; Oct pg 18 Road to Success, The: Recruiting in Rural Program (CH-53E Super Stallion); May pg 18
Providing Light Attack Air Support With a Potent America; Sep pg 56 “Incredible Hulk,” New Expeditionary Fighting
Punch (HMLA-775); Aug pg 24 Senior Leaders of Our Corps—2006 (Insert); Vehicle Is Corps’ “Superhero” to the Rescue;
Reservist Puts Civil Service Career on Hold to Nov pg Al Jan pg 22
Serve in Iraq; Jan pg 16 Transitioning Marines Benefit as “Marine For Marine Corps Seeks Out New Gear at SHOT Show;
Rifle Scope Takes the Hit, Saves Marine’s Life; Life” Program Grows; Feb pg 48 Apr pg 40
Jan pg 19 What Our NCOs Are Saying: Combat-Veteran Marines and the Osprey: How V-22 Is Progressing
Searches To Keep Terrorists Off Balance Not a Marines Relay Experiences at Lessons-Learned and What the Users Think; May pg 36
Snap (1/5, Ar Ramadi); Oct pg 19 Conference; Dec pg 18 Meeting the Needs of the Warfighter; Sep pg 40
Small-Unit Leaders Are Writing New Chapter to Technology Versus Tradition: Chey'Tac’s Rifle
Fallujah History (1/6, Operation Hard Knock); PERSONALITIES Brings a New Dimension to Sniper Work for
Nov pg 20 Marines in Iraq; Jan pg 36
Sniper “Takes It Personally”; Drops 3 Terrorists at Basilone, GySgt John “Manila John” (Four
950 Yards (Sgt Memo M. Sandoval, 3/5); Feb pg 27 Legendary Leaders Honored With Their Own RESERVE
Sunni Muslim Marine Takes It Very Personally Stamps); Nov pg 46
(Cpl Mohammed N. Rahman, 3/25); Oct pg 20 Dabney, USMC (Ret), Col William H. (Hill 881 Forgotten Battalion, The: Members of the Samoan
faking Down Fallujah: House by House, Room by South); Sep pg 18 Battalion, U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Served
Room (I MEF, Operation Phantom Fury/Operation Dalrymple, Sgt Matthew P. (The War on Terror: With Purpose in World War II; Mar pg 28
Al Fajr); Jan pg 12 Third IED Attack Doesn’t Faze Sergeant); Dec pg 16 “Fox” 2/23: Reserve Marines Embody Patriotism;
“Taking Out the Trash” During February’s Daly, SgtMaj Daniel J. (Four Legendary Leaders May pg 52
Operation River Blitz (1/23, Al Anbar province); Honored With Their Own Stamps); Nov pg 46 Marine Assistance Made Casting Ballots Easier and
May pg 24 Ezell, Lin (National Museum of the Marine Safer (4th CAG and Ist FSSG, Iraq); Apr pg 27
lechnology Versus Tradition: CheyTac’s Rifle Corps: Award-Winning Smithsonian Program Marines of the North: Recon Training in Alaska’s
Brings a New Dimension to Sniper Work for Manager Appointed First Director); Oct pg 26 Wilds and Weather Takes Special Planning,
Marines in Iraq; Jan pg 36 Gunn, USMCR (Ret), Col John (Who Is John Execution; Aug pg 42
Terrorists Killed, Series of Weapons Caches Gunn?); Oct pg 41 Reservist Puts Civil Service Career on Hold to
Snared in Raids (RCT-2, 2dMarDiv, Operation Hagee, Gen Michael W. (Interview With the 33rd Serve in Iraq; Jan pg 16
Matador); Jul pg 18 CMC, An: General Michael W. Hagee); Jul pg 12 Sunni Muslim Marine Takes It Very Personally
Third LED Attack Doesn’t Faze Sergeant (Fallujah); Hall, USMC (Ret), IstSgt Richard H. (Marine (Cpl Mohammed N. Rahman, 3/25); Oct pg 20
Dec pg 16 Philatelists Stick Together (sidebar)); Nov pg 48 Swan Song at FOB Salerno: Vietnam Combat
United States Launches “Iron Fist” in Western Lejeune, LtGen John A. (Four Legendary Leaders Veteran Deploys for One Last “Oorah” in
Irag (RCT-2, Operation Lron Fist); Dec pg 15 Honored With Their Own Stamps); Nov pg 46 Afghanistan; Jan pg 32
Unlocking Doors to Iraq’s Future: Ist Battalion, McMichael, SgtMaj Alford L. (Breaking New VMFA-321 “Hell’s Angels”: District of Columbia
6th Marines Trains Iraqi Security Forces; Oct pg 14 Ground: Former Sergeant Major of the Marine Defenders Decommissioned; May pg 30
“We Didn't Want [Insurgents] Here, But They Corps Is Setting the New Standard for NATO's
Came Anyway” (5th CAG, Il MEF (Fwd), NCOs); Feb pg 28 REUNIONS
Operation New Market, Haditha); Aug pg 16 Mitchell, Cpl Robert J. (The War on Terror:
Battalion Tells Squad Leader “You’ve Done MACE Staff Hosts World War II Marine Raiders;
MEDALS & DECORATIONS Enough”); Feb pg 25 Nov pg 52
Nagazyna, USMC (Ret), MSgt John J. (John J. Return to “Sulphur Island”; Jun pg 42
In the Highest Tradition; Mar pg 52, Apr pg 56, Nagazyna: Hero or Liberty Risk?); Jun pg 20
Jul pg 42, Oct pg 46, Nov pg 56 Pace, Gen Peter (For the First Time, A Marine to SPORTS
Medals & Decorations—Acts of Valor: How the Chair the Joint Chiefs of Staff!); Jun pg 14
Corps Awards Combat Medals and Decorations; Puller, LtGen Lewis B. (Four Legendary Leaders Colonel Fraser West: Marine CowboyJ;u l pg 22
Aug pg 32 Honored With Their Own Stamps); Nov pg 46 Corps Athletes of the Past; Oct pg 38
Rahman, Cp! Mohammed N. (The War on Terror: Corps’ Team Triumphs During 29th Marine Corps
MISCELLANEOUS
Sunni Muslim Marine Takes It Very Personally); Marathon; Jan pg 42
Oct pg 20 Who Is John Gunn?; Oct pg 41
Aftermath of Katrina: Marines Rescued Gulf Rourk, LCpl Daniel (The War on Terror: Amtracker
Coast Residents, Delivered Supplies, Helped ‘Translates Success); Aug pg 18 TRAINING/EXERCISES
Clean Up; Nov pg 30 Sandoval, Sgt Memo M. (The War on Terror:
Annual Letter to the Marine Corps Association Sniper “Takes It Personally”; Drops 3 Terrorists Breaking New Ground: Former Sergeant Major of
Membership (including the MCA Board of at 950 Yards); Feb pg 27 the Marine Corps Is Setting the New Standard
Governors); Feb pg 14 Sowders, SSgt Brent (Road to Success, The: for NATO’s NCOs; Feb pg 28
Belles of the Ball, The: Marine Spouses Honor Recruiting in Rural America); Sep pg 56 Field Medical Service School; Apr pg 30
Deployed Husbands by Observing Corps’ Suarez, USMCR, Cpl Danny R. (The War on Marines of the North: Recon Training in Alaska’s
BirthdayJ;a n pg 50 Terror: Reservist Puts Civil Service Career on Wilds and Weather Takes Special Planning,
Extreme Leadership to Some; Routine to Parris Hold to Serve in Iraq); Jan pg 16 Execution; Aug pg 42
Island Marines; Mar pg 40 Waterhouse, USMCR (Ret), Col Charles H. Unlocking Doors to [raq’s Future: Ist Battalion,
Four Legendary Leaders Honored With Their (Marines on His Canvas: The Art of Charles H. 6th Marines Trains Iraqi Security Forces;
Own Stamps; Nov pg 46 Waterhouse); Jun pg 28 Oct pg 14
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