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I remember the smell of the plastic blue gym mats under my face as I grappled another Marine in the hanger bay of the…

Dillon crawled in circles on the carpet, the TV behind him glowing with reports of destruction and death. Though it h…

Sometimes I’d imagine that compressing the areas of fat would break apart the tissue and allow it to dissolve into my…

Fights within the infantry were common enough that their variations came to be source material for a dark form of in-…

GoodSouthernBoy™ is born to a RegularAmericanFamily! in Tennessee. You won’t learn where exactly, and if you do, you …

‘Tis a fearful thing to love What death can touch. To love, to hope, to dream, and oh, to lose . . . by Judah …

Since getting back from deployment, Frank had gone soft. He was still a massive block of muscle, but the edges had ro…

In 2011, two years before I show up to Officer Candidate School, the Marine Corps changes its uniform order to allow …

An homage to Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl” (The New Yorker, June 1978). Wake up at oh-my-god-o’clock on …

The Staff Sergeant shifted in his tight, class-A uniform and frowned. Phones rang and keyboards, the primary weapon o…

The motto of the U.S. Marine Corps, or USMC, is “Semper Fidelis.” Commonly translated to “always faithful,” the motto…

Hurry up – Halt. And quiet, Marines sleep. – Covers askew necks cocked weighted by the waiting. Dozing so…

Parade the Beef “I declare this meat tasty and fit for human consumption.” – President of the Mess, CLR-27, Lan…

It’s story time at the base library here at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, San Diego, home to the 3rd Marin…

I don’t know your name, but we tried to kill each other once. Do you remember it? It happened on November 5, 2005, on…

It was in the news. On a bright summer day in Helmand Province, Lance Corporal Wickie did his duty and killed an insu…

It’s never easy to voice suspicions that your boss is out to get you. No matter how you describe it, the accusation s…

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