Sublime

The Marine philosophy is to recruit for attitude and train for skills. Marines believe that attitude is a weapon system. We searched for intangible character traits: a quest for adventure, a desire to serve with the elite, and the intention to be in top physical condition.

Except for some magnificent excursions into the deserts of Libya and up the slopes of Chapultepec, the US Marine Corps—from the American Revolution to the American Civil War—was mostly an indentured adjunct of the blue-water American Navy. In peace, a ramrod insurance against mutiny; in battle, mast-clinging marksmen intended to replicate Admiral N

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The Chief’s quarters on board a sub are known as the Goat Locker, said to date back to the days when livestock were carried on board and when one particular goat became the mascot on the US sub New York

In November 1942, well into the Guadalcanal campaign, even Admiral Nimitz had recognized that FTP 167 was a dinosaur and sent along a revision to Admiral King. Both Nimitz and King knew Turner; both knew he would never be constrained by good manners; both agreed to the revision—henceforth establishing the Marine Corps’ invasion commander as the equ

research into the mechanics of various landing craft, he viewed the coral as a technical problem with a technical solution. To him, that solution was variously known as an amphibious tractor, an alligator, an amtrac, or by its most common name, a Landing Vehicle Tracked, or LVT for short. Conceived by Donald Roebling—grandson of the builder of the