Here’s a familiar scenario for most enlisted Marines: You’re walking along when you see an older Marine barreling toward you with an immaculate eight-point and a shit-ton of black stripes and rockers ...

Marines with Marine Special Operations Company Charlie, 1st Marine Raider Battalion, process intelligence and set up a visual telecommunication feed after a simulated direct-action night raid in 2015.

Recruit Justin Kelley sets security during the Crucible on MCRD Parris Island, Dec. 5, 2024. (Staff Sgt Brendan Custer/Marine Corps) When Justin Kelley left the Air Force in 2015, he was an E-5 – a ...