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Bill Sahno
Dept. Of AZ
Public
Relations Committee (Chair)
Joan Sisco,
President of Veterans First Ltd. received a check for $1500.00 The
check was presented by Dept of AZ Commandant Alex Romero on behalf
of Mary Ellen's Place. A program which addresses the lack of
affordable housing for women veterans. The facilities will assist in
preventing homelessness and provide a safe environment and
reintegrate back into the family and social atmosphere they once
cherished.
The Old Breed
Detachment #767 MCL of Glendale, AZ also donated over 500 hours to
painting, scrubbing cements floors, cleaning, yard work etc. to
preparing all 15 studio apartments and four common areas for
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MCL Board of
Trustees, Department Commandants,
Advisory Committee and Friends of
the Marine Corps
We are
moving ever closer to making the name change a reality - To date,
Senator Pat Roberts has 79 co-sponsors in the Senate (that is 80 out
of a total of 100 Senators) and he intends to offer this bill as an
amendment on the floor of the Senate next month when the Defense
Authorization bill comes to the floor.
In a
recent conversation with Congressman Walter Jones, Commandant of the
Marine Corps, Jim Conway said that if the House and Senate pass this
legislation, he is fine with the change. He said that he; Past
Commandants General Mike Hagee and General Jim Jones were all in
agreement that this is the right thing to do for the Marine Corps
and the Navy. You can also include General Mundy and General Krulak
in those thoughts as both serve on our Advisory Committee to get
this legislation passed.
There
is one important thing I need to ask each of you to do right now.
Please go to our website
http://www.MarineCause.com and sign the Petition indicating your
support for this legislation.
THEN –
pass this e-mail along to ALL YOUR DETACHMENTS and everyone else on
your e-mail list that you consider a friend of the Corps. We need
friends, Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, kids, Wives, nieces, nephews and
next door neighbors to ALL sign the petition on-line. And then ask
EACH OF THEM to pass it along to THEIR e-mail lists to do the same
thing.
The
real plan here is to get 200 thousand supporters to sign that
petition. That would be psychologically overwhelming when Senator
Roberts introduces the legislation on the Senate floor and shows
that over 200 thousand Americans support it.
As
always, thanks for your support and for all you do for our Marines
and the Marine Corps League.
Semper
Fidelis
Mike
Michael A. Blum
Executive Director
Marine Corps League
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Marine Bill Ebright has done a lot of work in
getting the Diamondbacks to allow the League to have color
guards on the field for a game. The Backs will match or double
the tickets bought and donate them to veterans to attend the
game. We need members and family and friends to buy tickets to
the game so we can give the matching tickets to our veterans and
their families. We would also like to have as many color guards
as possible to attend the game and have a large presentation of
color guards on the field.
The attachment will give you more information.
PDD Alex Romero, Commandant
Marine Corps League
Department of Arizona
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DEPARTMENT OF
ARIZONA
BYLAWS
AND ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES
REQUEST FOR APPROVAL
(REVISED APRIL
2004 PER NATIONAL JUDGE ADVOCATE MICHAEL BLUM)
CLICK HERE
TO READ A
COPY OF THE
ABOVE
SPACE
AVAILABLE
(SPACE A)
FLIGHT TERMINALS
AMC Passenger Terminal Contact
Information
(Revised July 2009)
CLICK HERE
FOR LIST
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NEWS RELEASE
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 25, 2010
VA
Proposes Change to Aid Veterans Exposed to Agent Orange
Proposed Regulation Change Adds Illnesses to List of Diseases
Subject to Presumptive Service Connection for Herbicide Exposure
WASHINGTON
- Well over 100,000 Veterans exposed to herbicides while serving
in Vietnam and other areas will have an easier path to qualify
for disability pay under a proposed regulation published by the
Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) that adds three new
illnesses to the list of health problems found to be related to
Agent Orange and other herbicide exposures.
"This is an important step forward for Vietnam Veterans
suffering from these three illnesses," said Secretary of
Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki. "These warriors deserve
medical care and compensation for health problems they have
incurred."
The
regulation follows Shinseki's October 2009 decision to add the
three illnesses to the current list of diseases for which
service connection for Vietnam Veterans is presumed. The
illnesses are B cell leukemias, such as hairy cell leukemia;
Parkinson's disease; and ischemic heart disease.
The
Secretary's decision is based on the latest evidence of an
association with widely used herbicides such as Agent Orange
during the Vietnam War, as determined in an independent study by
the Institute of Medicine (IOM).
Even though this is a proposed rule, VA encourages Vietnam
Veterans with these three diseases to submit their applications
for compensation now so the Agency can begin development of
their claims and so they can receive benefits from the date of
their applications once the rule becomes final
Comments on the proposed rule will be accepted over the next 30
days. The final regulation will be published after
consideration of all comments received.
"We
must do better reviews of illnesses that may be connected to
service, and we will," Shinseki added. "Veterans who endure
health problems deserve timely decisions based on solid
evidence."
Over 80,000 of the Veterans will have their past claims reviewed
and may be eligible for retroactive payment, and all who are not
currently eligible for enrollment into the VA healthcare system
will become eligible.
During the Vietnam War, the U.S.
military used more than 19 million gallons of herbicides for
defoliation and crop destruction in the Republic of Vietnam.
Veterans who served in Vietnam anytime during the period
beginning January 9, 1962, and ending on May 7, 1975, are
presumed to have been exposed to herbicides.
Used in Vietnam to defoliate trees and remove concealment for
the enemy, Agent Orange and other herbicides left a legacy of
suffering and disability that continues to the present.
The
new rule will bring the number of illnesses presumed to be
associated with herbicide exposure to 14 and significantly
expand the current leukemia definition to include a much broader
range of leukemias beyond chronic lymphocytic leukemia
previously recognized by VA.
In
practical terms, Veterans who served in Vietnam during the war
and who have a "presumed" illness don't have to prove an
association between their illnesses and their military service.
This "presumption" simplifies and speeds up the application
process for benefits.
Other illnesses previously recognized under VA's "presumption"
rule as being caused by exposure to herbicides during the
Vietnam War are:
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AL Amyloidosis,
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Acute and Subacute Transient Peripheral
Neuropathy,
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Chloracne or other Acneform Disease consistent
with Chloracne,
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Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, (now being
expanded)
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Diabetes Mellitus (Type 2),
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Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma,
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Porphyria Cutanea Tarda,
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Prostate Cancer,
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Respiratory Cancers (Cancer of the lung,
bronchus, larynx, or trachea), and Soft Tissue Sarcoma (other than Osteosarcoma, Chondrosarcoma,
Kaposi's sarcoma, or Mesothelioma)
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THE GRAND
CANYON
REGIMENT
STATE OF
ARIZONA
YOUNG
MARINES
There are 11
units
currently in
the state
located in
these
cities:
Apache
Junction,
Chandler,
Glendale,
2 in
Mesa,
Phoenix,
Prescott,
2 in
Scottsdale
(one of
these on the
Salt River
Indian
Reservation),
Show Low,
and Yuma,
with 3 more
in the
process of
being formed
in Maricopa,
Window Rock,
and
Stafford.
The State of
AZ has One
Regiment
(Grand
Canyon
Regiment, CO
is George
Meegan) and
Three
Battalions (
Black Sheep,
CO is
Michael
Roach;
Patriot
Battalion,
CO is Frank
(Gunny)
Alger;
Saguaro
Battalion,
CO is John
Urban)
The Young
Marines of
the Grand
Canyon
Regiment are
very active
helping to
build
stronger
communities
and learning
the skills
that will
make them
the future
leaders of
this great
nation.
Some of the
activities
that they
participate
in are:
volunteering
at the AZ
veterans
Home and
both VA
hospitals,
participating
in the
Navajo
Nation Code
Talker Day
Ceremonies
honoring the
Code Talkers
for their
service,
volunteering
in Sept. 11th
ceremonies
helping us
remember and
NEVER
forget,
participating
in take a
Veteran to
school day,
welcoming
home events
for those
service men
and women
retuning
from tours
of duty in
Iraq and
Afghanistan,
and many
more events.
Remember
that the
Young
Marines of
the Marine
Corps League
are always
looking for
Marines to
volunteer
their time
and help
develop the
next
generation
of leaders.
They are
also always
looking for
Detachments
to support
their local
Units
through
joint
activities
and they can
always use
monetary
donations.
For more
information
please check
out the
Regiment Web
site:
www.grandcanyonregimentyoungmarines.webs.com
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MARINE CORPS HISTORY WWII
STAFF SERGEANT WILLIAM J. ( BILLY) LYNCH
Staff Sergeant Billy Lynch was a Marine. He grew up on Victory Road, and if you go to the corner of Victory and Neponset Avenue Mass., you’ll see the black street at William Joseph Lynch Square. It is a place of honor for a Marine who disappeared 67 years ago.
He left Neponset for the Marines in 1937, right out of high school, and never came back. He was stationed in China when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, and then went to the Philippines and was there when the Japanese invaded. After the battle of Corregidor in 1942, the Japanese took him prisoner.
They beat him but couldn’t break him. As soon as he could run, Billy Lynch ran from the prison camp. The Japanese caught him and beat him again, worse, and then they put him on a “hell ship’’ to China, with no ventilation, no toilet, no water, no food. It was a death march at sea.
A lot of POWs died on the hell ships, but Billy Lynch wouldn’t give his captors the satisfaction. They stuck in him a prison camp called Mukden and he escaped again. Some of the local Chinese hid him, but a 6-foot white guy from Dorchester stood out in Manchuria, and the Japanese recaptured him.
They beat him again, and there would be no third escape for Billy Lynch. He was sent to another camp, Port Arthur, now known by its Chinese name, Lushun. Billy Lynch’s captors tortured him, peeling the skin from his body before killing him, cutting him up, and stuffing his remains in a barrel that was sealed.
Some years ago, a Chinese historian named Yang Jing became intrigued with Prisoner No. 610, the only American POW never accounted for in China. He started digging, figuratively, looking for Billy Lynch. Professor Yang found three elderly Chinese men who were slave laborers at Port Arthur and knew about the murder, dismemberment, and burial of Staff Sergeant Billy Lynch. When Yang learned that Lynch was from Boston, he contacted John McColgan, the city’s archivist. McColgan knocked on every door on Victory Road but couldn’t find anyone who remembered the Lynches. McColgan asked Marie Daly, a genealogist at the New England Historic Genealogical Society, for help.
Daly, a detective in librarian’s clothing, found Lynch’s two nieces, Judy Armour in Bridgewater and Janet Sambuceti in Marshfield. Their DNA will prove, once and for all, whether Billy Lynch is in the ground in Manchuria.
Yesterday, a FedEx pilot named Ryan Bach and a former Marine from Norwell named Mark Voner walked around the spot in Lushun where they believe Billy Lynch’s bones rest. It’s getting too cold to dig, so the plan is to bring in an archeological team next spring.
Bach and Voner are part of a volunteer group called Moore’s Marauders, dedicated to finding American MIAs like Billy Lynch. Moore’s Marauders will send scientists over next spring.Voner was badly wounded when the Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up in 1983, killing 241 Marines, soldiers, and sailors.
“It’s fitting that there is a Marine there right now, looking for the last Marine in China,’’ said Fred Sullivan, one of the Dorchester residents who support the cause of finding Billy Lynch. “We had to raise $25,000 to pay for the search, but it’s worth every penny. Billy Lynch should come home.’’
If, as they believe, their dig next spring yields Billy Lynch’s bones, he will come home, finally, first to St. Ann’s Church, where he made his First Communion, then on to Arlington National Cemetery.
“He deserves to be home,’’ Judy Armour said of the uncle she never met and never forgot. “That’s why he kept escaping. He kept trying, no matter what they did to him. He wanted to come home.’’
In February, 2010 sixty-five years ago, more than 110,000 Americans and 880 ships began their assault on a small volcanic island in the Pacific, in the climactic battle of the last year of WWII. Iwo Jima is a tiny volcanic island about 700 miles south of Tokyo. Mt. Suribachi is the highest peak at an elevation of 516 ft. It was a possible supply point for the allies and it was important to prevent the enemy from using it as such.
On February 19, 1945, a large contingent of Marines landed on the island, facing an equally substantial army of Japanese defenders. One of the bloodiest, fiercest four days of combat ensued, in the course of which the Marines took more casualties than in several months of battle at Guadalcanal. Iwo Jima became the most populous 7½ square miles on the planet as U. S. Marines and Japanese soldiers fought a battle that would test American resolve symbolizing a free society’s willingness to make the sacrifice necessary to prevail over evil – A SACRIFICE AS RELEVANT TODAY AS IT WAS THEN.
On the morning of February 23, 1945, a Marine patrol pushed over the topmost ridge on Suribachi and within minutes swung a flag-bearing pole into position; a world famous event recorded on film and later captured in bronze, symbol of “uncommon valor", a tribute to Marines who have died in battle since 1775, not only emblematic of The Corps, but an internationally recognized symbol of all Americans who have fought for this nation's freedom and the freedom of others around the world. It was not until March 15, 1945 that the entire island was secured. The Japanese lost more than 21,000 killed while the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions suffered 4,189 killed and another 16,007 wounded.
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LIST OF VETERAN
INFORMATION WEBSITES
Appeals:
http://www.warms.vba.va.gov/admin21/m21_1/mr/part1/ch05.doc
Board of Veteran's Appeals:
http://www.va.gov/vbs/bva/
CARES Commission:
http://www.va.gov/vbs/bva/
CARES Draft National Plan:
http://www1.va.gov/cares/page.cfm?pg=105
Center for Minority Veterans:
http://www1.va.gov/centerforminorityveterans/
Center for Veterans
Enterprise:
http://www.vetbiz.gov/default2.htm
Center for Women Veterans:
http://www1.va.gov/womenvet/
Clarification on the changes
in VA healthcare for Gulf War
Veterans:
http://www.gulfwarvets.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000016.html
Classified Records - American
Gulf War Veterans Assoc.:
http://www.gulfwarvets.com/ubb/Forum18/HTML/000011.html
Compensation for Disabilities
Associated with the Gulf War
Service:
http://www.warms.vba.va.gov/admin21/m21_1/part6
http://www.warms.vba.va.gov/admin21/m21_1/part6/ch07.doc
Compensation Rate Tables,
12-1-03:
http://www.vba.va.gov/bln/21/Rates/comp01.htm
Department of Veterans
Affairs Home Page:
http://www.va.gov/
Directory of Veterans Service
Organizations:
http://www1.va.gov/vso/index.cfm?template=view
Disability Examination
Worksheets Index, Comp:
http://www.vba.va.gov/bln/21/Benefits/exams/index.htm
Due Process:
http://www.warms.vba.va.gov/admin21/m21_1/mr/part1/ch02.doc
Duty to Assist:
http://www.warms.vba.va.gov/admin21/m21_1/mr/part1/ch01.doc
Electronic Code of Federal
Regulations:
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/ecfr/
Emergency, Non-emergency, and
Fee Basis Care:
http://www1.va.gov/opa/vadocs/fedben.pdf
Environmental Agents:
http://www1.va.gov/environagents/
Environmental Agents M10:
http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/ViewPublication.asp?pub_ID=1002
Establishing Combat Veteran
Eligibility:
http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/ViewPublication.asp?pub_ID=315
EVALUATION PROTOCOL FOR GULF
WAR AND IRAQI FREEDOM VETERANS
WITH POTENTIAL EXPOSURE TO DEPLETED URANIUM
(DU):
http://www1.va.gov/gulfwar/docs/DUHandbook1303122304.DOC
and
http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/ViewPublication.asp?pub_ID=1158
See also, Depleted Uranium
Fact Sheet:
http://www1.va.gov/gulfwar/docs/DepletedUraniumFAQSheet.doc
EVALUATION PROTOCOL FOR
NON-GU LF WAR VETERANS WITH
POTENTIAL EXPOSURE TO DEPLETED URANIUM (DU):
http://www1.va.gov/gulfwar/docs/DUHANDBOOKNONGW130340304.DOC
Fee Basis, PRIORITY FOR
OUTPATIENT MEDICAL SERVICES
The Department of Defense and
Veterans Affairs Joint Executive Council
released a Strategic Plan for fiscal years
2009-2011 outlining its effort to improve
the quality, efficiency and effectiveness of
the delivery of benefits and services to
service members, military retirees and their
families, and veterans through an enhanced
DOD and VA partnership. The strategic plan
comprises six parts, which are listed as
goals for the partnership to achieve. The
full plan is explained in a 50-page document
available
for download through this link, and at
the
DOD/VA Program Coordination Program Web page.
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MARINE CORPS TEMPORARY
LODGING FACILITIES
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MCLB Albany, GA.
Phone: (229)
639-5614
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MCAS
Yuma, AZ.
Phone: (928)
269-2262
Fax (928) 269-6639
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MCLB Barstow, CA.
Phone: (760)
577-6418
Fax (760) 577-6110
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MCB Camp Pendleton,
CA.
Phone: (760)
725-5304/5194
Fax (760) 725-5609
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MCAS Miramar, CA.
Phone: (619)
271-7111
Fax: (619) 695-7371
Reservations:
1-800-628-9466
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MCAGCC Twenty Nine
Palms, CA.
Phone: (760)
830-6573/6583
Fax (760) 830-1647
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MCB Hawaii
Phone: (808)
254-2806
Fax (808) 254-2716
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MCB Camp S. D.
Butler, Okinawa
Phone: (760)
577-6418
Fax (760) 577 6110
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MCB
Camp Lejeune, NC.
Phone: (910)
451-3041
Fax (910) 451-9605
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MCRD
Parris Island, SC.
Phone: (843)
228-2967
Fax (843) 228-4808 |
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MCAS
Beaufort, SC.
Phone: (843)
522-1663
Fax (843) 522-1663 |
MCCDC Quantico, VA.
Phone: (703)
630-4444
Fax (703) 630-4499
Reservations:
1-800-965-9511
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MCB Camp Lejeune,
NC.
Phone: (910)
451-3041
Fax (910) 451-9605 |
MCRD
Parris Island, SC.
Phone: (843)
228-2967
Fax (843) 228-4808 |
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MCAS Beaufort,
SC.
Phone: (843)
522-1663
Fax (843) 522-1663 |
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Just-the-facts approach to SEAL’s heroic story
SEAL of Honor: Operation Red Wings and the Life of
Lt. Michael P. Murphy, USN by Gary Williams, Naval
Institute Press
Lt. Michael Patrick Murphy was named after Michael
the archangel, “field commander of the Army of God.”
Murphy, the first recipient (posthumously) of the
Medal of Honor for service in Afghanistan, was only
human — but with the stamina of a god.
Author Gary Williams opens this textbook story of
Murphy’s life and death in June 2005, when Murphy’s
family is awaiting news about the fate of Operation Red
Wings in Kunar.
Eventually they learn that “your son and his men did
not go down easy, because there were Taliban bodies
strewn all over the place, 80-some casualties, blood
trails everywhere.”
Murphy’s funeral procession is described with
precision: The 120-vehicle motorcade “pulled out
escorted by 10 uniformed local law enforcement officers
on motorcycles” while “16 fire ladder trucks lined the
road.”
Noting the numbers is an example of Williams’
just-the-facts approach.
The details explain the indefatigable Murphy’s
achievements.
During college, Murphy was contemplating trying to
become a SEAL and sought advice from decorated Navy
Capt. Ryan McCombie.
“So,” asks McCombie, “you are interested in talking
about the SEALs?”
“No sir,” Murphy replies. “I want to be a Navy SEAL.
There’s a difference.”
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American Spartans: The U.S.
Marines: A Combat History from Iwo Jima to Iraq
James A. Warren
Description
From the
islands of the Pacific to Korea to the Middle
East, James A. Warren's riveting precepts across
six decades while reinventing themselves in the
face of political change to forever remain
America's finest warriors e battle history of
the Marines reveals how "the few and the proud"
have drawn on their timeless precepts across six
decades while reinventing themselves in the face
of political change to forever remain America's
finest warriors reveals how "the few and the
proud" have drawn on their timeless precepts
across six decades while reinventing themselves
in the face of political change to forever
remain America's finest warriors e battle
history of the Marines reveals how "the few and
the proud" have drawn on their timeless precepts
across six decades while reinventing themselves
in the face of political change to forever
remain America's finest warriors have drawn on
their timeless precepts across six decades while
reinventing themselves in the face of political
change to forever remain America's finest
warriors e battle history of the Marines reveals
how "the few and the proud" have drawn on their
timeless precepts across six decades while
reinventing themselves in the face of political
change to forever remain America's finest
warriors reveals how "the few and the proud"
have drawn on their timeless precepts across six
decades while reinventing themselves in the face
of political change to forever remain America's
finest warriors e battle history of the Marines
reveals how "the few and the proud" have drawn
on their timeless precepts across six decades
while reinventing themselves in the face of
political change to forever remain America's
finest warriors
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A QUESTION
OF COMMAND
HARDCOVER
EDITION
Counterinsurgency
from the Civil War to
Iraq
According to the
prevailing view of
counterinsurgency, the
key to defeating
insurgents is selecting
methods that will win
the people's hearts and
minds. The
hearts-and-minds theory
permeates not only most
counterinsurgency books
of the twenty-first
century but the U.S.
Army/Marine Corps
Counterinsurgency Field
Manual, the U.S.
military's foremost text on
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Mark Moyar assails this
conventional wisdom,
asserting that the key
to counterinsurgency is
selecting commanders who
have superior leadership
abilities. Whereas the
hearts-and-minds school
recommends allocating
much labor and treasure
to economic, social, and
political reforms, Moyar
advocates concentrating
resources on security,
civil administration,
and leadership
development.
Moyar presents a
wide-ranging history of
counterinsurgency, from
the Civil War and
Reconstruction to
Afghanistan and Iraq,
that draws on the
historical record and
interviews with hundreds
of counterinsurgency
veterans, including top
leaders in today's armed
forces. Through a series
of case studies, Moyar
identifies the ten
critical attributes of
counterinsurgency
leadership and reveals
why these attributes
have been much more
prevalent in some
organizations than
others. He explains how
the U.S. military and
America's allies in
Afghanistan and Iraq
should revamp their
personnel systems in
order to elevate more
individuals with those
attributes.
A Question of Command
will reshape the study
and practice of
counterinsurgency
warfare. With
counterinsurgency now
one of the most pressing
issues facing the United
States, this book is a
must-read for
policymakers, military
officers, and citizens.
About the Author
Mark Moyar is the Kim T.
Adamson Chair of
Insurgency and Terrorism
at the U.S. Marine Corps
University. A historian
and an analyst of
contemporary national
security affairs, he is
the author of Triumph
Forsaken: The Vietnam
War, 1954-1965, and
Phoenix and the Birds
of Prey:
Counterinsurgency and
Counterterrorism in
Vietnam. He lives in
Woodbridge, VA |
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The Battle
History of the U.S. Marines is the only
single-volume, definitive combat history of the
United States Marines, covering more than two
centuries of battles in the air and on land and
sea--literally "from the Halls of Montezuma to
the shores of Tripoli," from Suribachi to
Somalia. It presents graphic narratives of such
epic engagements as Belleau Wood, Wake Island,
Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Peleliu, Saipan, Okinawa,
the Chosin Reservoir, Khe Sanh, and many more. |
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by
Michael Ledeen (Hardcover)
The war
on terrorism came to the United States in
earnest on September 11, 2001, but according
to veteran Middle East analyst Michael
Ledeen, it's been going on worldwide for
decades. He reveals how it began - and how
it will end - in his enlightening new book,
The War Against the Terror Masters: Why It
Happened. Where We Are Now. How We'll Win.
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Best and the Brightest
by David Halberstam
(Paperback)
David Halberstam
narrates a saga of how
America became involved
in Vietnam. A
story every American
should read.
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Marine History....
Operations in Iraq
Operation Iraqi
Freedom I
A Catalog of
Interviews and Recordings,
Historical Documents,
Photographs and Combat Art
Compiled by:
LtCol Nathan S.
Lowrey, USMCR
HISTORY AND MUSEUMS
DIVISION
UNITED STATES MARINE
CORPS |
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Victory at High Tide: The Inchon-Seoul
Campaign
By: Col Robert Debs Heinl, Jr USMC
Detailed
account of the Inchon-Seoul Campaign based
on Army, Navy and Marine Corps records as
well as personal recollections and a visit
to Korea. |
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Tip of the Spear:
U.S. Marine Light Armor in the Gulf War
By: G.J. Michaels
A vivid personal account of a light armored vehicle battalion in modern combat
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On the morning of Saturday, November 20, 1943,
the 2d Marine Division undertook the first
modern amphibious assault against a
well-defended beachhead. The objective was tiny
Betio Island, Tarawa Atoll, and the going was
supposed to be a easy target already pounded
into coral dust by a massive naval and air
bombardment. But what the Marines discovered was
an island garrison alive and well, the Japanese
defenses intact and manned by foes that would
rather die than surrender. |
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The battle that followed, three full days of
terror, during which more than 3,000 died to
secure an island half the size of New York's
Central Park is fully told in words and pictures
in this dramatic book. Building on the updated
text 76 Hours: The Invasion of Tarawa,
the authors use more than 250 photos and combat
drawings from the U.S. Navy and Marine archives
and private collections to reveal the graphic
horror of warfare at its worst.
Their book follows every terrifying step as the
Marines, failed by the invasions planners, are
forced to wade more than 500 yards through
fire-swept, knee-deep water, reaching land only
to face what many historians agree was the best,
most concentrated defenses American troops
encountered in the entire Pacific War. The
result is an immortal story of certainty
shattered and courage recovered against
overwhelming odds, of victory culled from
near-defeat, and its terrible cost. |
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