U.S. Marines and U.S. Navy sailors with Combat Logistics Battalion 31, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, asses and transport simulated casualties during a mass casualty exercise at Kin Blue Beach Training Area, Okinawa, Japan, Feb. 14, 2025. U.S. Marines with Combat Logistics Battalion 2, Combat Logistics Regiment 2, 2nd Marine Logistics Group conduct cold weather training during Exercise Joint Viking 25 in Setermoen, Norway, Feb. 15, 2025. (U.S. Marine Corps Video by Lance Cpl. Joseph E. DeMarcus)
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.
