U.S. Marines with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 122 participate in exercise Bamboo Eagle at Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Yuma, Arizona, Aug. 9, 2024. Bamboo Eagle is a live-fly exercise designed to create a combat-representative environment to evaluate a wing commander’s ability to generate combat air power while continuing to move, maneuver and sustain the expeditionary airbase (XAB) and subordinate force elements in a dynamic environment. (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.
