U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Cameron Vuerich, with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 312, Marine Aircraft Group 31, 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing, a native of Murfreesboro, Tenn., provides a holiday greeting from Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Iwakuni, Japan, Nov. 20, 2024. Marines with VMFA-312, based out of MCAS Beaufort, South Carolina, are currently operating at MCAS Iwakuni as part of the Unit Deployment Program to augment MAG-12, 1st MAW. The UDP enables squadrons throughout the Marine Corps to exercise expeditionary capabilities while providing a forward presence in the Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Alejandra Vega)
Most Marines remember the three months spent in recruit training. For many, drill instructors are the reason it's so memorable. As if they were cartoon characters, drill instructors would scream in weird voices with veins popping out of their necks.
Pilots with the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force Fleet Air Wing 31 took to the sky in celebration of a new year over Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni Jan. 7.
Some people anxiously sat down at the recruiting office in their local strip mall where there were large amounts of bodies walking in out of that place to listen to the person across the desk from them with a very peculiar haircut and starch ironed shirt trying to recruit them into the military.
On Sept. 11, 2001, 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda carried out a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks on the United States.
In today’s society, technology plays a bigger role than human interaction. People can do simple day-to-day tasks in the palm of their hand, but how many of those are really a necessity?
