Leatherneck 2009: Vol 92 Index

2009·2.2 MB·English

2009 ANNUAL REFERENCE INDEX
AUTHORS Katzaman, James L., “Sea Skimmer”: Technology Instructor; Feb pg 28
Breakthroughs Lead to Dawn of EFV; Apr pg 40 Vasgerdsian, Ed, MSG Detachment Prague, Czech
Alfonso, Sgt Juan D., Marine Aviation Delivers in Keene, R. R., “All Ready on the Firing Line” Republic (Post of the Corps); May pg 22
Afghanistan; Sep pg 24 With the U.S. Marine Corps Shooting Team; ___, Special Bond, A: MSGs and RSOs (sidebar);
Behm, USMC, Capt Dale R. with Col Dick Camp Ji., Aug pg 36 Mar pg 14
USMC (Ret), Fallujah Shoot Down! Cobra , Brute,” “The; Mar pg 34 ___, Welcome to Havana: A Social and Cultural
Gunships Ambushed; Jul pg 32 , Corps’ Guardian Angels Tote One Hell of Awakening for MSGs (Post of the Corps);
Bettez, Ph.D., David J., Marine Corps Prepares a Rifle, The; Sep pg 36 Mar pg 12
for War, The: The Philadelphia Military Training , “Flaming I” at Getlin’s Corner, Williams, USMC (Ret), GySgt Thomas E., “At
Camp; Oct pg 48 The (Vietnam); Feb pg 38 All Times Ready”—The Marines at Harpers
Bevilacqua, USMC (Ret), Maj Allan C., Strange (compiled by), How Do You Rate? Ferry and the John Brown Raid: October 1859;
Case of Edmund Chamberlain, The; May pg 32 Test Your Corps Knowledge and See How You Sep pg 56
, Tale of “Willie the Whale,” The; May pg 40 “Shoot” on the Trivia Range; Nov pg 46 , United States Marine Corps Historical
Bock, Sara Wirtala, Beyond the Call of Duty , Precision Weapons: Handmade by Company, The: Celebrating the Corps; Nov pg 24
Father Peter Vasko Named Honorary Marine; Marines, for Marines; Apr pg 31
AVIATION
Mar pg 32 Kreisher, Otto, Gruntworks: Improving the
, CBIRF: How the U.S. Marine Corps Has Infantryman’s Effectiveness and Survivability;
Responded to a New Generation of Warfare; Dec pg 26 Air Wing Leathernecks Strengthen Coalition,
Jan pg 42 , Harvest Hawk: Firepower From the Air; Local Ties (MWSS-373, 2d MAW (Fwd) & 2d
, Marine Corps Optics: Improving the Sep pg 40 MLG, Al Kem Al Esbani, Iraq); May pg 15
“Sight” of the Individual Marine; Apr pg 36 , Outfitting Today’s Combat Infantry Marine: Bringing Jerry and Al Home (Vietnam); Jul pg 12
Brent, P.T., Diplomats in Blue: Hong Kong’s Rapid Advances Achieved by Marine Corps Colonel Archie J. Clapp: A Marine Corps Aviation
“China Marines” (Post of the Corps); Oct pg 41 Systems Command; Oct pg 52 Legend; Oct pg 44
, “Dublin, The’—Embassy Marines in Lehrack, USMC (Ret), LtCol Otto J., Dai Do: Corporal Ernesto “Gooie” Gomez: Helicopter
Ireland (Post of the Corps); Jul pg 38 The Strategic Battle for Dong Ha, Part I (Vietnam); Crew Chief (Giants of the Corps); Oct pg 20
, “Marine One”—Welcome Aboard; Feb pg 18 Mar pg 38 Delivering Building Materials to FOB, No Problem
Camp Jr., USMC (Ret), Col Dick, with Capt Dale , Dai Do: The Strategic Battle for Dong Ha, (HMH-466, SPMAGTF-A, Farah province,
R. Behm, USMC, Fallujah Shoot Down! Cobra Part II, the Conclusion (Vietnam); Apr pg 26 Afghanistan); Mar pg 20
Gunships Ambushed; Jul pg 32 Lewis, USMCR (Ret), LtCol Jack, “Cast-Iron Eaton Kenneth Goldthwaite: Top Sergeant and 10
, Last Full Measure of Devotion: Extraction Coffin,” The; Jun pg 30 Feet Tall (WW II); Jul pg 36
of Team “Box Score,” 16 February 1968 , Matter of Versatility, A: A Rifle in Pursuit Fallujah Shoot Down! Cobra Gunships Ambushed
(Vietnam); Nov pg 18 of the Military Mission; May pg 30 (HMLA-169); Jul pg 32
, Survivor: Corporal Glenn McDole and the Lubin, Andrew, Afghanistan: Operation Eagle “Gunny” Cole’s Journey: From Vietnam to America
Palawan Massacre (WW Il); Jun pg 26 “Muscular Mentoring”; Mar pg 26 and Then Afghanistan; Oct pg 36
Crumley, Beth, Corporal Ernesto “Gooie” Gomez: , Ambush in the East, The (sidebar); Mar pg 30 Harvest Hawk: Firepower From the Air; Sep pg 40
Helicopter Crew Chief (Giants of the Corps); , Journalists and Leathernecks: Reporters HMH-362 Takes the Fight From Iraq to
Oct pg 20 Visit Quantico for a Day in the Life of a U.S. Afghanistan; Jul pg 18
Davis, Elaine Zimmer, Bringing Jerry and Al Home Marine; Jun pg 39 HMM-161: Every Clime, Every Place—Writing
(Vietnam); Jul pg 12 , Keeping the Convoys Rolling With Route History; May pg 18
Densmore, Cpl Katie, Elite-to-Elite Makes Higher Clearance Company, Ist Combat Engineer Log Entries of 1stLt Christian Schilt (sidebar);
Education Easier; Nov pg 58 Battalion; Dec pg 22 Sep pg 22
Dulaney, LCpl Brandon, HMM-161: Every Magruder, USMC (Ret), Col Marion M. Marine Aviation Delivers in Afghanistan; Sep pg 24
Clime, Every Place—Writing History; May pg 18 “Black Mac” and Mark A. Magruder, Marine Aviation in Nicaragua: A Time of
Elliott, USMC (Ret), Maj John M., Log Entries of Night Fighter’s Diary, A (WW II); Sep pg 50 Pioneering; Sep pg 20
istLt Christian Schilt (sidebar); Sep pg 22 Mundy Jr., USMC (Ret), Gen Carl E., D-Day “Marine One”—Welcome Aboard; Feb pg 18
, Marine Aviation in Nicaragua: A Time of Salute, A; Jun pg 46 Night Fighter’s Diary (VMF(N)-533), A; Sep pg 50
Pioneering; Sep pg 20 Nusbaumer, Stewart, “Gunny” Cole’s Journey: President Signals, “Well Done” (sidebar); Feb pg 20
Ford, USMC (Ret), Col Walt, New Infantry From Vietnam to America and Then Afghanistan; “Sand Sharks” Build One of Corps’ Largest
Automatic Rifle, A: The Corps Plans a Choice; Oct pg 36 Airfields (MWSS-371, Camp Bastion); Aug pg 14
Apr pg 14 , History of MARSOC, The (sidebar); Strange Case of Edmund Chamberlain, The;
Guidone, USMC (Ret), Capt Frank J., Tasimboko: Nov pg 42 May pg 32
Small Raid Changed Everything at Guadalcanal , On the Frontline With Embedded Training Tale of “Willie the Whale,” The; May pg 40
(WW II); Aug pg 33 Team 2-7; Jun pg 18 VMAQ-4 Marines Teach Others to Protect Their
Hatch, USMCR (Ret), Maj Norm, “Never , With “Kilo” Company in Afghanistan; Own (AI Asad Air Base); Aug pg 15
Volunteer”: Wallace Nelson and the Origin of the Aug pg 18 World’s Busiest Single-Runway Airport (Kandahar);
Marine Corps Photographic Services; Aug pg 46 , With Special Operations Marines in Nov pg 34
Hoffman, Nancy Lee White, Toys for Tots: Afghanistan; Nov pg 40
BOOKS REVIEWED
Coordinators Play Strong Role in Campaign; O’Brien, Cyril J., General Robert H. Barrow (Giants
Dec pg 43 of the Corps); Jan pg 30
Hugel, David H., Colonel Archie J. Clapp: , Raid on Koiari, The (WW II); Dec pg 30 Afghanistan: A Companion and Guide (Leatherneck
A Marine Corps Aviation Legend; Oct pg 44 Pacheco, Isaac D., 7th Warfighting Skill, The: Book Browser); Oct pg 58
, Mac Foster: The Fighting Marine From How Culture Is Changing the Face of Today’s American Commando: Evans Carlson, His WW II
Fresno; Jul pg 28 Battlefield; Oct pg 26 Marine Raiders and America’s First Special
Karcher, Mary D., Devil Pups Challenges Teens: , Post-9/11 GI Bill Paves Way for Veterans’ Forces Mission; Nov pg 63
Who Can You Become in 10 Days? Jan pg 24 Futures; Oct pg 56 Befriend and Betray: Infiltrating the Hells Angels,
, Flag Symbolizes Spirit of Marines: lwo Parks, Bill, Eaton Kenneth Goldthwaite: Top Bandidos and Other Criminal Brotherhoods
Jima Sacrifices Remembered on Historic Sergeant and 10 Feet Tall (WW II); Jul pg 36 (Leatherneck Book Browser); Apr pg 46
Anniversary; May pg 46 Parks, USMCR (Ret), Col W. Hays, “Semper Charlie DeLeo: Keeper of the Flame (Leatherneck
, It Just Keeps Getting Better: New Exhibits Fidelis”: Witness to Its Meaning; Nov pg 52 Book Browser); Oct pg 58
Coming in 2010 (sidebar); Sep pg 47 Ray, USMC (Ret), GySgt Richard L., Rewarding Chronology of the American Revolution
, Marines Become the Face of History; Jun pg 36 Excellence: John Archer Lejeune Award of (Leatherneck Book Browser); Jun pg 48
, “Taking Chance”: The Story of a Fallen Bravery; Sep pg 63 Command Attention: Promoting Your Organization
Marine’s Final Journey Home (movie review); Reilley Kaylen, Once an Eagle: Teens Return to the Marine Corps Way; Nov pg 62
Feb pg 50 Support Devil Pups Program (sidebar); Jan pg 27 Commander of the Faithful: The Life and Times
, Twelfth Sergeant Major of the Corps Rock, Cpl Aaron J., Marines See USS San Antonio of Emir Abd el-Kader; Jul pg 48
Comments on Young Marines (sidebar); Aug pg 28 as a Force Multiplier; Jan pg 18 Dead Shot (Leatherneck Book Browser); May pg 51
, Young Marines of the Marine Corps League; Rutherford, Mara R., Bringing History to Life: Death in Spades (Leatherneck Book Browser);
Aug pg 24 Museum Film Depicts Corps’ Defining Moment; May pg 51
Karl, Karen, Winning Hearts and Minds With the Sep pg 44 DNA of Leadership, The: Leadership Is All About
Spirit of America; Nov pg 54 St. Marie, Sgt Paul, Become a Marine Combat People (Leatherneck Book Browser); Sep pg 64
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2009 ANNUAL REFERENCE INDEX
AUTHORS Katzaman, James L., “Sea Skimmer”: Technology Instructor; Feb pg 28
Breakthroughs Lead to Dawn of EFV; Apr pg 40 Vasgerdsian, Ed, MSG Detachment Prague, Czech
Alfonso, Sgt Juan D., Marine Aviation Delivers in Keene, R. R., “All Ready on the Firing Line” Republic (Post of the Corps); May pg 22
Afghanistan; Sep pg 24 With the U.S. Marine Corps Shooting Team; ___, Special Bond, A: MSGs and RSOs (sidebar);
Behm, USMC, Capt Dale R. with Col Dick Camp Ji., Aug pg 36 Mar pg 14
USMC (Ret), Fallujah Shoot Down! Cobra , Brute,” “The; Mar pg 34 ___, Welcome to Havana: A Social and Cultural
Gunships Ambushed; Jul pg 32 , Corps’ Guardian Angels Tote One Hell of Awakening for MSGs (Post of the Corps);
Bettez, Ph.D., David J., Marine Corps Prepares a Rifle, The; Sep pg 36 Mar pg 12
for War, The: The Philadelphia Military Training , “Flaming I” at Getlin’s Corner, Williams, USMC (Ret), GySgt Thomas E., “At
Camp; Oct pg 48 The (Vietnam); Feb pg 38 All Times Ready”—The Marines at Harpers
Bevilacqua, USMC (Ret), Maj Allan C., Strange (compiled by), How Do You Rate? Ferry and the John Brown Raid: October 1859;
Case of Edmund Chamberlain, The; May pg 32 Test Your Corps Knowledge and See How You Sep pg 56
, Tale of “Willie the Whale,” The; May pg 40 “Shoot” on the Trivia Range; Nov pg 46 , United States Marine Corps Historical
Bock, Sara Wirtala, Beyond the Call of Duty , Precision Weapons: Handmade by Company, The: Celebrating the Corps; Nov pg 24
Father Peter Vasko Named Honorary Marine; Marines, for Marines; Apr pg 31
AVIATION
Mar pg 32 Kreisher, Otto, Gruntworks: Improving the
, CBIRF: How the U.S. Marine Corps Has Infantryman’s Effectiveness and Survivability;
Responded to a New Generation of Warfare; Dec pg 26 Air Wing Leathernecks Strengthen Coalition,
Jan pg 42 , Harvest Hawk: Firepower From the Air; Local Ties (MWSS-373, 2d MAW (Fwd) & 2d
, Marine Corps Optics: Improving the Sep pg 40 MLG, Al Kem Al Esbani, Iraq); May pg 15
“Sight” of the Individual Marine; Apr pg 36 , Outfitting Today’s Combat Infantry Marine: Bringing Jerry and Al Home (Vietnam); Jul pg 12
Brent, P.T., Diplomats in Blue: Hong Kong’s Rapid Advances Achieved by Marine Corps Colonel Archie J. Clapp: A Marine Corps Aviation
“China Marines” (Post of the Corps); Oct pg 41 Systems Command; Oct pg 52 Legend; Oct pg 44
, “Dublin, The’—Embassy Marines in Lehrack, USMC (Ret), LtCol Otto J., Dai Do: Corporal Ernesto “Gooie” Gomez: Helicopter
Ireland (Post of the Corps); Jul pg 38 The Strategic Battle for Dong Ha, Part I (Vietnam); Crew Chief (Giants of the Corps); Oct pg 20
, “Marine One”—Welcome Aboard; Feb pg 18 Mar pg 38 Delivering Building Materials to FOB, No Problem
Camp Jr., USMC (Ret), Col Dick, with Capt Dale , Dai Do: The Strategic Battle for Dong Ha, (HMH-466, SPMAGTF-A, Farah province,
R. Behm, USMC, Fallujah Shoot Down! Cobra Part II, the Conclusion (Vietnam); Apr pg 26 Afghanistan); Mar pg 20
Gunships Ambushed; Jul pg 32 Lewis, USMCR (Ret), LtCol Jack, “Cast-Iron Eaton Kenneth Goldthwaite: Top Sergeant and 10
, Last Full Measure of Devotion: Extraction Coffin,” The; Jun pg 30 Feet Tall (WW II); Jul pg 36
of Team “Box Score,” 16 February 1968 , Matter of Versatility, A: A Rifle in Pursuit Fallujah Shoot Down! Cobra Gunships Ambushed
(Vietnam); Nov pg 18 of the Military Mission; May pg 30 (HMLA-169); Jul pg 32
, Survivor: Corporal Glenn McDole and the Lubin, Andrew, Afghanistan: Operation Eagle “Gunny” Cole’s Journey: From Vietnam to America
Palawan Massacre (WW Il); Jun pg 26 “Muscular Mentoring”; Mar pg 26 and Then Afghanistan; Oct pg 36
Crumley, Beth, Corporal Ernesto “Gooie” Gomez: , Ambush in the East, The (sidebar); Mar pg 30 Harvest Hawk: Firepower From the Air; Sep pg 40
Helicopter Crew Chief (Giants of the Corps); , Journalists and Leathernecks: Reporters HMH-362 Takes the Fight From Iraq to
Oct pg 20 Visit Quantico for a Day in the Life of a U.S. Afghanistan; Jul pg 18
Davis, Elaine Zimmer, Bringing Jerry and Al Home Marine; Jun pg 39 HMM-161: Every Clime, Every Place—Writing
(Vietnam); Jul pg 12 , Keeping the Convoys Rolling With Route History; May pg 18
Densmore, Cpl Katie, Elite-to-Elite Makes Higher Clearance Company, Ist Combat Engineer Log Entries of 1stLt Christian Schilt (sidebar);
Education Easier; Nov pg 58 Battalion; Dec pg 22 Sep pg 22
Dulaney, LCpl Brandon, HMM-161: Every Magruder, USMC (Ret), Col Marion M. Marine Aviation Delivers in Afghanistan; Sep pg 24
Clime, Every Place—Writing History; May pg 18 “Black Mac” and Mark A. Magruder, Marine Aviation in Nicaragua: A Time of
Elliott, USMC (Ret), Maj John M., Log Entries of Night Fighter’s Diary, A (WW II); Sep pg 50 Pioneering; Sep pg 20
istLt Christian Schilt (sidebar); Sep pg 22 Mundy Jr., USMC (Ret), Gen Carl E., D-Day “Marine One”—Welcome Aboard; Feb pg 18
, Marine Aviation in Nicaragua: A Time of Salute, A; Jun pg 46 Night Fighter’s Diary (VMF(N)-533), A; Sep pg 50
Pioneering; Sep pg 20 Nusbaumer, Stewart, “Gunny” Cole’s Journey: President Signals, “Well Done” (sidebar); Feb pg 20
Ford, USMC (Ret), Col Walt, New Infantry From Vietnam to America and Then Afghanistan; “Sand Sharks” Build One of Corps’ Largest
Automatic Rifle, A: The Corps Plans a Choice; Oct pg 36 Airfields (MWSS-371, Camp Bastion); Aug pg 14
Apr pg 14 , History of MARSOC, The (sidebar); Strange Case of Edmund Chamberlain, The;
Guidone, USMC (Ret), Capt Frank J., Tasimboko: Nov pg 42 May pg 32
Small Raid Changed Everything at Guadalcanal , On the Frontline With Embedded Training Tale of “Willie the Whale,” The; May pg 40
(WW II); Aug pg 33 Team 2-7; Jun pg 18 VMAQ-4 Marines Teach Others to Protect Their
Hatch, USMCR (Ret), Maj Norm, “Never , With “Kilo” Company in Afghanistan; Own (AI Asad Air Base); Aug pg 15
Volunteer”: Wallace Nelson and the Origin of the Aug pg 18 World’s Busiest Single-Runway Airport (Kandahar);
Marine Corps Photographic Services; Aug pg 46 , With Special Operations Marines in Nov pg 34
Hoffman, Nancy Lee White, Toys for Tots: Afghanistan; Nov pg 40
BOOKS REVIEWED
Coordinators Play Strong Role in Campaign; O’Brien, Cyril J., General Robert H. Barrow (Giants
Dec pg 43 of the Corps); Jan pg 30
Hugel, David H., Colonel Archie J. Clapp: , Raid on Koiari, The (WW II); Dec pg 30 Afghanistan: A Companion and Guide (Leatherneck
A Marine Corps Aviation Legend; Oct pg 44 Pacheco, Isaac D., 7th Warfighting Skill, The: Book Browser); Oct pg 58
, Mac Foster: The Fighting Marine From How Culture Is Changing the Face of Today’s American Commando: Evans Carlson, His WW II
Fresno; Jul pg 28 Battlefield; Oct pg 26 Marine Raiders and America’s First Special
Karcher, Mary D., Devil Pups Challenges Teens: , Post-9/11 GI Bill Paves Way for Veterans’ Forces Mission; Nov pg 63
Who Can You Become in 10 Days? Jan pg 24 Futures; Oct pg 56 Befriend and Betray: Infiltrating the Hells Angels,
, Flag Symbolizes Spirit of Marines: lwo Parks, Bill, Eaton Kenneth Goldthwaite: Top Bandidos and Other Criminal Brotherhoods
Jima Sacrifices Remembered on Historic Sergeant and 10 Feet Tall (WW II); Jul pg 36 (Leatherneck Book Browser); Apr pg 46
Anniversary; May pg 46 Parks, USMCR (Ret), Col W. Hays, “Semper Charlie DeLeo: Keeper of the Flame (Leatherneck
, It Just Keeps Getting Better: New Exhibits Fidelis”: Witness to Its Meaning; Nov pg 52 Book Browser); Oct pg 58
Coming in 2010 (sidebar); Sep pg 47 Ray, USMC (Ret), GySgt Richard L., Rewarding Chronology of the American Revolution
, Marines Become the Face of History; Jun pg 36 Excellence: John Archer Lejeune Award of (Leatherneck Book Browser); Jun pg 48
, “Taking Chance”: The Story of a Fallen Bravery; Sep pg 63 Command Attention: Promoting Your Organization
Marine’s Final Journey Home (movie review); Reilley Kaylen, Once an Eagle: Teens Return to the Marine Corps Way; Nov pg 62
Feb pg 50 Support Devil Pups Program (sidebar); Jan pg 27 Commander of the Faithful: The Life and Times
, Twelfth Sergeant Major of the Corps Rock, Cpl Aaron J., Marines See USS San Antonio of Emir Abd el-Kader; Jul pg 48
Comments on Young Marines (sidebar); Aug pg 28 as a Force Multiplier; Jan pg 18 Dead Shot (Leatherneck Book Browser); May pg 51
, Young Marines of the Marine Corps League; Rutherford, Mara R., Bringing History to Life: Death in Spades (Leatherneck Book Browser);
Aug pg 24 Museum Film Depicts Corps’ Defining Moment; May pg 51
Karl, Karen, Winning Hearts and Minds With the Sep pg 44 DNA of Leadership, The: Leadership Is All About
Spirit of America; Nov pg 54 St. Marie, Sgt Paul, Become a Marine Combat People (Leatherneck Book Browser); Sep pg 64
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Faithful Warriors: A Combat Marine Remembers Marine Aviation in Nicaragua: A Time of Keeping the Convoys Rolling With Route
the Pacific War; Nov pg 68 Pioneering; Sep pg 20 Clearance Company, Ist Combat Engineer
Few More Marines, A; Mar pg 48 “Marine One”—Welcome Aboard; Feb pg 18 Battalion; Dec pg 22
Forever War, The; Feb pg 48 Tale of “Willie the Whale,” The; May pg 40 Leathernecks in Southern Afghanistan Conduct
Guidebook for Marines (Leatherneck Book United States Marine Corps Historical Company, Cordon and Search Operations (3/8 (Rein),
Browser); Nov pg 62 The: Celebrating the Corps; Nov pg 24 SPMAGTF-A, Operation Pathfinder, Farah
Gunbird Driver: A Marine Huey Pilot’s War in province); May pg 13
Vietnam; May pg 50 WORLD WAR | Leathernecks Light It Up as Sun Sets on Insurgents
Hard Knocks and Straight Talk: From the Jungles (B/1/5, RCT-3, Helmand province); Dec pg 14
of Vietnam to the American Classroom Bringing History to Life: Museum Film Depicts Leathernecks Train for IED Threats (H&S Co,
(Leatherneck Book Browser); Jul pg 48 Corps’ Defining Moment; Sep pg 44 1/5, Camp Bastion); Aug pg 15
Homeland Siege: Tactics for Police and Military; Marine Corps Prepares for War, The: The Marine Aviation Delivers in Afghanistan; Sep pg 24
Oct pg 58 Philadelphia Military Training Camp; Oct pg 48 Marine Truckers: Days Are the Same Navigating
How Fear Moves: A Memoir (Leatherneck Book Strange Case of Edmund Chamberlain, The; Around IEDs (TSP, CLB-8, RCT-3, Helmand
Browser); May pg 51 May pg 32 province); Oct pg 16
How Free People Move Mountains; Feb pg 49 Marines, Afghan National Police Keep the Pressure
WORLD WAR II
Jack Hinson’s One-Man War: A Civil War Sniper; on Insurgents (SPMAGTF-A, Operation
Jun pg 48 Pathfinder, Farah province); May pg 13
Joker One: A Marine Platoon’s Story of Courage, Eaton Kenneth Goldthwaite: Top Sergeant and 10 Marines, Afghan Police Fight Side by Side to
Leadership, and Brotherhood; Sep pg 65 Feet Tall; Jul pg 36 Combat Terrorism (Co G, TF 2/7, Farah
Land of the High Flags: Afghanistan When the Night Fighter’s Diary (VMF(N)-533), A; Sep pg 50 province); Jan pg 12
Going Was Good (Leatherneck Book Browser); Raid on Koiari, The; Dec pg 30 Marines, British Forces Ensure Only the “Right
Oct pg 58 Survivor: Corporal Glenn McDole and the Ones” Are Let In (MEB-Afghanistan
Last Man Standing: The Ist Marine Regiment on Palawan Massacre; Jun pg 26 Headquarters Group, Camp Leatherneck, Helmand
Peleliu, September 15-21, 1944; Jun pg 55 Tasimboko: Small Raid Changed Everything at province); Aug pg 13
Last Stand of Fox Company, The: A True Story of Guadalcanal; Aug pg 33 Marines Escort Newly Graduated Afghan
U.S. Marines in Combat; Jan pg 48 VIETNAM WAR Uniformed Police to Districts (SPMAGTF-A,
Leading the Charge: Leadership Lessons From the Herat province); Feb pg 13
Battlefield to the Boardroom; Oct pg 59 Marines Facilitate Veterinary Care
Loon: A Marine Story; Sep pg 64 Bringing Jerry and Al Home; Jul pg 12 Helping Afghan Farmers (4th Civil Affairs
Marine Corps and the State Department, The: Corporal Ernesto “Gooie” Gomez: Helicopter Group, Helmand province); Dec pg 17
Enduring Partners in United States Foreign Crew Chief (Giants of the Corps); Oct pg 20 Marines Flood the Helmand River Valley Prepared
Policy, 1798-2007 (Leatherneck Book Browser); Dai Do: The Strategic Battle for Dong Ha, Part I; for a Long Afghan Campaign (2d MEB-
Aug pg 48 Mar pg 38 Afghanistan, Operation Khanjar); Sep pg 14
My Miracle Marine (Leatherneck Book Browser); Dai Do: The Strategic Battle for Dong Ha, Part II, Marines Strike Insurgent Positions (L/3/8 (Rein),
Feb pg 48 the Conclusion; Apr pg 26 CLB-3 and D/2/14, SPMAGTF-A, Now Zad,
National Security Dilemmas: Challenges and “Flaming I” at Getlin’s Corner, The; Feb pg 38 Helmand province); Jun pg 12
Opportunities; Jul pg 50 Last Full Measure of Devotion: Extraction of MEB-Afghanistan Assumes Control of Battle
No Atheists in Foxholes: Prayers and Reflections Team “Box Score,” 16 February 1968; Nov pg 18 Space at Camp Leatherneck (Helmand province);
From the Front (Leatherneck Book Browser); THE WAR ON TERRORISM Aug pg 12
Jan pg 48 On the Frontline With Embedded Training Team
On the Corps: USMC Wisdom From the Pages of 2-7 (Camp Joyce); Jun pg 18
Leatherneck, Marine Corps Gazette, and 7th Warfighting Skill, The: How Culture Is Provincial Governor, Marine Leaders Meet to
Proceedings; Jun pg 56 Changing the Face of Today’s Battlefield; Oct pg 26 Chart Progress (SPMAGTF-A, Farah province);
Pacific War, The: The Strategy, Politics, and Winning Hearts and Minds With the Spirit of Mar pg 20
Players That Won the War; Mar pg 48 America; Nov pg 54 “Sand Sharks” Build One of Corps’ Largest
Ride the Thunder: A Vietnam War Story of Honor Airfields (MWSS-371, Camp Bastion); Aug pg 14
OFERATIONS DURING
and Triumph; Dec pg 48 FREEDOM (Afghanistan) Special Purpose Force of Marines Deploys to
Scarface 42: United States Marine Corps Helicopter Afghanistan (SPMAGTF-A, Helmand and Farah
Air/Ground Support, Vietnam; May pg 50 provinces); Jan pg 14
Shadow of the Sword: A Marine’s Journey of War, 2/8 Secures Lakari Village, Earns Trust With Counter- SPMAGTF-A Flight Surgeon Provides Medical
Heroism, and Redemption; Dec pg 49 insurgency Operations (E/2/8, MEB-Afghanistan, Treatment to Afghan Women (Camp Hero,
Helmand province); Dec pg 14
Steel and Blood: South Vietnamese Armor and the Kandahar); Mar pg 21
War for Southeast Asia; Apr pg 46 3d Bn, 8th Marines Secures Golestan by Building Task Force Leatherneck Deploys to Afghanistan
Strongest Tribe, The: War, Politics, and the Faith in Government (SPMAGTF-A, Farah (2d MEB); Jul pg 18
Endgame in Iraq; Jan pg 48 province); Jun pg 13 They Guard and Protect the VIPs (Personal Security
“Taking Chance”: The Story of a Fallen Marine’s 100 Days In Country (MEB-Afghanistan); Detachment, MEB-Afghanistan, Helmand
Nov pg 30
Final Journey Home (movie); Feb pg 50 province); Aug pg 13
Victory Point: Operations Red Wings and Afghan National Police, Marines Show Presence With “Kilo” Company in Afghanistan (3/8,
Whalers—the Marine Corps’ Battle for Freedom in Marketplace (1st Plt, K/3/8, Delaram); Apr pg 23 SPMAGTF-A, Farah province); Aug pg 18
in Afghanistan; Aug pg 48 Afghan Soldiers, 2/8 Marines Conduct Security With Special Operations Marines in Afghanistan
War Dogs of the Pacific (movie); Dec pg 49 Operation in Garmsir District (Helmand (Herat province); Nov pg 40
Wounded Warriors: Those for Whom the War province); Oct pg 15 Women Marines Conduct First Mission in Southern
Never Ends; Sep pg 72 Afghanistan: Operation Eagle “Muscular Afghanistan (3/8 (Rein), SPMAGTF-A, Operation
Mentoring”; Mar pg 26 Pathfinder, Farah province); May pg 14
CORPS ALBUM Ambush in the East, The (FOB Bostick—sidebar); World’s Busiest Single-Runway Airport (Kandahar);
Mar pg 30 Nov pg 34
Battle of Okinawa, | April-22 June 1945, The; Apr pg 48 Corps’ First EOD Company Activated (8th ESB,
Photos From the Bottom of the Footlocker; Helmand province); Dec pg 18 OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM
Jul pg 42, Nov pg 60 Delivering Building Materials to FOB, No Problem
Tribute to Women in the Corps, A; Feb pg 22 (HMH-466, SPMAGTFE-A, Farah province); 3d LAR Marines Keep Their Spirits High and
Mar pg 20 Their Heads Low (Ninewa province); Nov pg 34
HISTORY Engineers Construct New Position Near Taliban Il MEF Leathernecks Hope Third Time’s a Charm
Marketplace (Co D, Ist CEB, CLB-8 and 8th (Al Anbar province); Apr pg 19
“At All Times Ready”—The Marines at Harpers ESB, Helmand province); Dec pg 15 Air Wing Leathernecks Strengthen Coalition,
Ferry and the John Brown Raid: October 1859; “Gunny” Cole’s Journey: From Vietnam to America Local Ties (MWSS-373, 2d MAW (Fwd) and
Sep pg 56 and Then Afghanistan; Oct pg 36 2d MLG, Al Kem Al Esbani); May pg 15
It Just Keeps Getting Better: New Exhibits Coming H&S Marines Guard the Perimeter of Patrol Base CAG Marines Learn Conversational Arabic (RCT-8,
in 2010 (sidebar); Sep pg 47 Jaker (1/5, Helmand province); Oct pg 15 Camp Ripper); May pg 17
Log Entries of I1stLt Christian Schilt (sidebar); HMH-362 Takes the Fight From Iraq to CLB-2 Makes Long Haul to Remote Iraq Location
Sep pg 22 Afghanistan; Jul pg 18
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(Sahl Sinjar Airfield, Ninewa province); May pg 16 The; Sep pg 36 Karcher, Mary D. (Behind the Lines); Nov pg 6
Commandos Take to the Skies for Air Assault D-Day Salute, A; Jun pg 46 Krulak, LtGen Victor H. (Brute,” “The); Mar pg 34
Training (Al Asad Air Base); Jun pg 16 Devil Pups Challenges Teens: Who Can You McDole, Cpl Gienn (Survivor: Corporal Glenn
Corpsmen Teach Iraqi Commandos Basic Lifesaving Become in 10 Days? Jan pg 24 McDole and the Palawan Massacre (WW II));
Skills (RCT-8, Camp Yassir, Al Asad Air Base); Elite-to-Elite Makes Higher Education Easier; Jun pg 26
Jun pg 14 Nov pg 58 McQueen, PFC Steve (“Cast-Iron Coffin,” The);
“Echo” Company Conducts Atmospherics Flag Symbolizes Spirit of Marines: Iwo Jima Jun pg 30
(E/2/25, RCT-5, Rutbah); Mar pg 23 Sacrifices Remembered on Historic Anniversary; , (“King of Cool”: Marine Steve McQueen
Fallujah Shoot Down! Cobra Gunships Ambushed May pg 46 sidebar); Jun pg 34
(HMLA-169, Operation Phantom Fury/Al Fajr); History of MARSOC, The (sidebar); Nov pg 42 Nelson, Col Wallace M. (“Never Volunteer”:
Jul pg 32 How Do You Rate? Test Your Corps Knowledge Wallace Nelson and the Origin of the Marine
Final Fallujah Checkpoint Now in Iraqi Hands and See How You “Shoot” on the Trivia Range; Corps Photographic Services); Aug pg 46
(1/4); Apr pg 21 Nov pg 46 Vasko, Peter F. (Beyond the Call of Duty: Father
Government of Iraq Takes Control of Dam (RCT-5, It Just Keeps Getting Better: New Exhibits Peter Vasko Named Honorary Marine); Mar pg 32
Haditha); Feb pg 13 Coming in 2010 (sidebar); Sep pg 47 Zimmer, Capt Jerry A. (Bringing Jerry and Al
HMM-161: Every Clime, Every Place Journalists and Leathernecks: Reporters Visit Home); Jul pg 12
Writing History; May pg 18 Quantico for a Day in the Life of a U.S. Marine;
Iraqi Police Respond to Fallujah Attack (Hq Co, 1/4, Jun pg 39 POSTS OF THE CORPS
RCT-1); Mar pg 22 Leatherneck’s “Top-10” Badass Marines; Apr pg 12
Iraqi Police Uncover Weapons Cache Marines Become the Face of History; Jun pg 36 Diplomats in Blue: Hong Kong’s “China Marines”;
(COP Ubaydi); Feb pg 15 Marines See USS San Antonio as a Force Oct pg 41
lraqi Soldiers Learn to Deal With IEDs (RCT-8, Multiplier; Jan pg 18 “Dublin, The” Embassy Marines in Ireland;
Al Asad Air Base); Jun pg 14 “Never Volunteer”: Wallace Nelson and the Origin Jul pg 38
Iraqi Women’s Engagement (WE) Program of the Marine Corps Photographic Services; MSG Detachment Prague, Czech Republic;
Brings Marine to the Mission (Fallujah); Jan pg 17 Aug pg 46 May pg 22
Marines Conduct Mechanics Training for Iraqi Once an Eagle: Teens Return to Support Devil Welcome to Havana: A Social and Cultural
Army Troops (MiTT-7 and CLB-46, Camp Pups Program (sidebar); Jan pg 27 Awakening for MSGs; Mar pg 12
Mejid); Dec pg 18 Post-9/11 GI Bill Paves Way for Veterans’
ESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Marines Continue Drawdown in Al Anbar (1/4, Futures; Oct pg 56
Technology/Gear
RCT-1, Fallujah); Mar pg 22 Reinforcing Marine Corps Customs and Traditions;
Marines Help Iraqis Build for Their Future Feb pg 12
(I MHG CAG, Fallujah); Jan pg 14 Rewarding Excellence: John Archer Lejeune Corps’ Guardian Angels Tote One Hell of a Rifle,
Marines Improve Facilities for Incoming Units Award of Bravery; Sep pg 63 The; Sep pg 36
(RCT-1, Camp Ramadi); Feb pg 14 “Semper Fidelis”: Witness to Its Meaning; Nov pg 52 Gruntworks: Improving the Infantryman’s
RCT-8 Supports Efforts to Organize Civic Leaders Senior Leaders of Our Corps—2010; Nov pg Al Effectiveness and Survivability; Dec pg 26
Conference (Al Asad Air Base); Jul pg 21 (insert) Harvest Hawk: Firepower From the Air; Sep pg 40
Recon Marines Teach House Clearing to Iraqi Special Bond, A: MSGs and RSOs (sidebar); Marine Corps Optics: Improving the “Sight” of
Commandos (Co B, Ist Recon Bn, RCT-8, Mar pg 14 the Individual Marine; Apr pg 36
Al Asad Air Base); Jun pg 15 “Taking Chance”: The Story of a Fallen Marine’s Marines See USS San Antonio as a Force Multiplier;
Reserve Commander Adapts to Execute Changing Final Journey Home (movie review); Feb pg 50 Jan pg 18
Mission (2/25, RCT-5, Camp Korean Village, Toys for Tots: Coordinators Play Strong Role in Matter of Versatility, A: A Rifle in Pursuit of the
Al Anbar province); Feb pg 15 Campaign; Dec pg 43 Military Mission; May pg 30
Reservists Reconstruct a Nation, One Line at a Twelfth Sergeant Major of the Corps Comments New Infantry Automatic Rifle, A: The Corps
Time (2/25, Rutbah); Apr pg 22 on Young Marines (sidebar); Aug pg 28 Plans a Choice; Apr pg 14
Tank Marines Work Hard to Stay on Track (3d Plt, United States Marine Corps Historical Company, Outfitting Today’s Combat Infantry Marine:
Co A, 2d Tank Bn, COB Ubaydi); Mar pg 25 The: Celebrating the Corps; Nov pg 24 Rapid Advances Achieved by Marine Corps
Trucking With Marines in Iraq (Motor T, H&S Co, Winning Hearts and Minds With the Spirit of Systems Command; Oct pg 52
TF 3d LAR Bn, RCT-8, Ninewa province); America; Nov pg 54 Precision Weapons: Handmade by Marines, for
Oct pg 19 Young Marines of the Marine Corps League; Marines; Apr pg 31
VMAQ-4 Marines Teach Others to Protect Their Aug pg 24 Reservists Reconstruct a Nation, One Line at a
Own (AI Asad Air Base); Aug pg 15 Time (2/25, Rutbah); Apr pg 22
Woman Marine Serves in Iraq as Lioness, Machine- PERSONALITIES “Sea Skimmer”: Technology Breakthroughs Lead
Gunner (Transportation Support Co, CLB-7, to Dawn of EFV; Apr pg 40
2d MLG (Fwd), Al Asad Air Base); Jul pg 20 Aguilar, Cpl Susy H. (Woman Marine Serves in
RESERVE
Iraq as Lioness, Machine-Gunner); Jul pg 20
MEDALS & DECORATIONS
Barrow, Gen Robert H. (Funeral Homily, Gen
Robert H. Barrow, 3 Nov. 2008—-sidebar); Jan pg 34 “Echo” Company Conducts Atmospherics
In the Highest Tradition; Feb pg 44, Apr pg 50, (General Robert H. Barrow (E/2/25, RCT-5, Rutbah, Iraq); Mar pg 23
Sep pg 60, Dec pg 20 (Giants of the Corps)); Jan pg 30 Reserve Commander Adapts to Execute Changing
(Warrior at Rest—sidebar); Jan pg 32 Mission (2/25, RCT-5, Camp Korean Village, Al
MISCELLANEOUS Chamberlain, Capt Edmund G. (Strange Case of Anbar province, Iraq); Feb pg 15
Edmund Chamberlain, The); May pg 32
SPORTS
7th Warfighting Skill, The: How Culture Is Clapp, USMC (Ret), Col Archie J. (Colonel
Changing the Face of Today’s Battlefield: Archie J. Clapp: A Marine Corps Aviation Legend);
Oct pg 26 Oct pg 44 “All Ready on the Firing Line” With the U.S.
2008 Marine Corps Association Annual Cole, GySgt Carl H. (“Gunny” Cole’s Journey: Marine Corps Shooting Team; Aug pg 36
Membership Report; Mar pg A| (insert) From Vietnam to America and Then Afghanistan); Mac Foster: The Fighting Marine From Fresno;
“All Ready on the Firing Line” With the U.S Oct pg 36 Jul pg 28
Marine Corps Shooting Team; Aug pg 36 Fairchild, Lon (Special Bond, A: MSGs and Marine Athletes Inducted Into Sports Hall of Fame;
“At All Times Ready”—The Marines at Harpers RSOs—sidebar); Mar pg 14 Dec pg 40
SFeerpr yp ga n5d6 the John Brown Raid: October 1859; FoFsrteorm, SFgrte snMoa)c; (JuMla cp g F2os8t er: The Fighting Marine TRAINING/EXERCISES
Birthday Message From the Commandant of the Goldthwaite, |stSgt Eaton Kenneth (Eaton Kenneth
Marine Corps, A; Nov pg 16 Goldthwaite: Top Sergeant and 10 Feet Tall); Become a Marine Combat Instructor; Feb pg 28
Bringing History to Life: Museum Film Depicts Jul pg 36 CBIRF: How the U.S. Marine Corps Has
Corps’ Defining Moment; Sep pg 44 Gomez, Cpl Ernesto “Gooie” (Corporal Ernesto Responded to a New Generation of Warfare;
“Cast-Iron Coffin,” The; Jun pg 30 “Gooie” Gomez: HelicopteCrre w Chief (Giants Jan pg 42
CBIRF: How the U.S. Marine Corps Has Responded of the Corps)); Oct pg 20 With Special Operations Marines in Afghanistan
to a New Generation of Warfare; Jan pg 42 Graf, Lt Albert S. (Bringing Jerry and Al Home); (Herat province); Nov pg 40
Corps’ Guardian Angels Tote One Hell of a Rifle, Jul pg 12
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