U.S. Marines with 2nd Marine Division and North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies participate in multilateral exercise Joint Viking 25 at Setermoen, Norway, March 3-14, 2025. Joint Viking 25 is a routine winter warfare exercise hosted by Norway that focuses on various cold-weather combat operations designed to enhance collective defense capabilities and ensure readiness while operating in challenging conditions. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Andra Marton-Salgado)
Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps Troy E. Black was in the Marine Corps Junior Reserve Officer's Training Corps (JROTC) in high school. Black shared with me a little bit of his prequel, one that predates his time in the Marine Corps, but would come to define it and his life as a whole.
The Navy and Marine Corps welcome their newest naval Aviator, U.S. Marine Corps 1st Lt. Brenda McCarthy at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Fla., May 27, 2021.
