2006 ANNUAL REFERENCE INDEX AUTHORS Fisher, Mike, Legacy of “Ding Dong” Bell, The Porte, Josh J., Rochester International Marine (sidebar); Jun pg 30 Tattoo, The; Aug pg 40 Allison, Dr. F. H., Tigers in the Air: Flying _____, Once Upon a Time in The Arizona: Severance, USMC (Ret), Col Dave E., Smoke in Leathernecks of VMA-542 in the Global War on Colonel Van D. Bell (Legend of the Corps); the Cockpit! A Personal Anecdote From the Terror; May pg 28 Jun pg 26 Korean War; May pg 50 Axe, David, Iraq Training, Hollywood Style; Ford, USMC (Ret), Col Walt, Cp! Dunham Snead, Cpl Micah, Marine Air in Iraq: 24MAW Nov pg 24 “Gallantly Gave His Life. ...” (sidebar); Dec pg 19 Concludes Successful OIF Deployment; . Wild West: Marine Corps Aviators , Thomason Sketches Peiping Promotion May pg 16 Support the Ground Troops in Iraq’s Explosive Parade (sidebar); Aug pg 27 Spence, Dustin, Unraveling the Mysteries of the Al Anbar Province; Aug pg 20 Grow, Charles and WO Michael D. Fay, USMCR, First Flag Raising; Oct pg 34 Bedwell, Don, Blowing Up a Storm Marine Combat Art in Iraq and Afghanistan Vasgerdsian, Ed, Bahrain Marine Security Guard Marine Forces Reserve Band Refuses to 2005; Jun pg 42 Detachment; Mar pg 24 Let Katrina Deter Its Mission; Mar pg 28 Hamel, Cpl James, Operation Iraqi Freedom . Corps’ Sergeant Major Visits, The (sidebar); Benhoff, USMCR, LtCol David, Among the Moves Forward With Herculean Effort From Mar pg 27 People: Sth Civil Affairs Group in Iraq; Jul pg 36 VMGR-252:; May pg 44 , In and Out of Bahrain FAST: A Corps Bevilacqua, USMC (Ret), Maj Allan ¢ Hevezi, Matt, Survival Skills at Heart of New Response to the War on Terrorism; Jun pg 16 “Next Time I Send Damn Fool | Go Myself” Helo Dunker; Jan pg 20 , Leatherneck Fleet Antiterrorism Security (Louis Cukela); Oct pg 52 Hochman, David, Let’s Go Thermal: Seeing Teams: A Different Capability; Jan pg 24 Bigelow, Bill, New Book Honors Arizona Through Dust and Smoke on the Battlefield: , Making FAST (sidebar); Jan pg 26 Marine Detachment (sidebar); Dec pg 22 Apr pg 58 Visconage, USMCR, Col Michael D., Field , USS Arizona Marine Corps Karcher, Mary D., Marine Barracks’ Grounds History Branch Mission (sidebar); Jun pg 36 Remembrance: A New Addition to the Pearl Combat Element Platoon Sows Seeds of , Getting It All Down: Marine Field Harbor Experience; Dec pg 20 Precision, Pride; Aug pg 32 Historians in Operation Iraqi Freedom; Jun pg 3 Bone, Margaret, Marines Make Aviation History , Marines’ History Finally Has a Home: Wagner, USMCR (Ret), LtCol Phil, Preserving MV-22 Ospreys Self-Deploy Across the Atlantic; National Museum of the Marine Corps Prepares the Corps’ History: Samoan Marine Uniform, Sep pg 44 for Opening Day; Jul pg 24 19th-Century Naval Reference Book Among Brett, Homer M., Marine Corps Martial Arts , Marines Love Their Birthday; Nov pg 48 Items Donated by World War II Marine; Program, The: One Mind, Any Weapon; Jan pg 34 , Women Marines March On! (Women Apr pg 32 Brill Jr., USMC (Ret), LtCol Arthur P., Update on Marines Association); Feb pg 32 Wheeler, USMCR, LtCol Kurt, Marines Train the Corps: General Michael W. Hagee, the 33rd Keene, R. R., 34th CMC Nominee: Visible, Allies for the War on Terror; Nov pg 50 Commandant of the Marine Corps; Sep pg 20 Candid Wartime Leader; Aug pg 14 White Jr., SSgt Houston F., “Charlie” Battery Brown, USMCR (Ret), LtCol Ronald J., , Fixed Targets for the Enemy: Engineers Satisfies an Appetite for Destruction; Feb pg 12 Vietnam’s Fields of Fire: Defending the An Hoa Risked It All Every Day to Get the Job Done Wilkinson, USMC (Ret), LtCol James B., Basin, 1966-70 (Vietnam: 40 Years Ago); (Vietnam); Sep pg 38 “Chieu Hoi” Speaks, The; Jan pg 16 CaFmebp pgJr .,2 4 USMC (Ret), Col Dick, “And the Band He Fo, lHluogwhed O’HBirs ianO:wn DIP,a thA;c toSre,p Hpugm a7n0i tarian AVIATION Played On”: The Marine Detachment, (compiled by), Landslide! Leathernecks USS Arizona; Dec pg 40 Lead in Frustrating Rescue and Recovery Army National Guard Helicopters Join Marine , Early Career of a Marine Legend, The: Operations; Apr pg 2¢ ) Aviation Combat Element (2/224th, AVN and General Eddie Craig (Giants of the Corps); . “Leatherneck Express”; Mar pg 36 MAG-16 (Rein), Al Anbar province); Jun pg 13 Nov pg 28 , Louts Lowery Captured Leatherneck Finer Points of Transitioning Helicopter , “Rugged Roy” Geiger and the Northern History on Film; Oct pg 32 Squadrons in Iraq, The (HMM-161 and -268, Bombing Group (Giants of the Corps); May pg 34 (compiled by), Marine Corps Stands Up MAG-16); May pg 22 Carpenter, Dennis, Bil! Gallo: In His Own Words Special Ops Command; Apr pg 60 “Griffins” Soar Iraqi Soldiers to Battle (Once a Marine); Nov pg 56 , Marines Rescue U.S. Citizens From (HMM-266, Operations Steel Curtain and Chaverri, USMCR, Sgt Joel A., “Pop A Smoke” Middle East Crossfire (Beirut, Lebanon); Moonlight); Mar pg 18 at Fort Worth: Marine Aircraft Buzz Landing Sep pg 26 “Jiffy Lube” for Leatherneck F/A-18 Hornets in Zone at Annual Cowtown Warbird Roundup , Was John W. Thomason Jr. Really the Iraq (VMFA(AW)-533, MAG-16 (Rein)): Nov pg 34 “Kipling of the Corps”? (sidebar); Aug pg 29 May pg 23 Clark, George B., Col John W. Thomason Jr. Kreisher, Otto, Corps’ New Ride, The: “Kannibal Ken”: Captain Kenneth L. Reusser The “Kipling of the Corps” (Giants of the Corps); Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle Nears Consumes a “Dragon Slayer”; Jul pg 40 Aug pg 26 Production Decision; Apr pg 14 Marine Air in Iraq: 24MAW Concludes , Hiram I. Bearss Marine (Giants of the Lehrack, USMC (Ret), LtCol Otto J., Operation Successful OIF Deployment; May pg 16 Corps); Jan pg 46 Hastings: The War Moves North (Vietnam: Marines Make Aviation History: MV-22 Ospreys Covert, USMCR, LtCol Craig, Marines on the 40 Years Ago); Jul pg 18 Self-Deploy Across the Atlantic; Sep pg 44 Borders of Iraq: Border Transition Teams Train Lewis, USMCR (Ret), LtCol Jack, Barrett’s Operation Iraqi Freedom Moves Forward With and Equip Iraqi Department of Border M468 Carbine; Feb pg 28 Herculean Effort From VMGR-252; May pg 44 Enforcement; Oct pg 22 Lopez, Sgt Mel, People’s Marathon” Turns 30, “The; “Pop A Smoke” at Fort Worth: Marine Aircraft , Protecting the Protectors—Marine Special Jan pg 38 Buzz Landing Zone at Annual Cowtown Agents of the Naval Criminal Investigative Mason Jr., H. M., National Museum of the Warbird Roundup; Nov pg 34 Service; Jul pg 50 Pacific War, The; Feb pg 42 “Rugged Roy” Geiger and the Northern Bombing , Wounded Warrior Barracks: Helping the McDonald, JoAnna M., Battle of Fallujah, The: Group (Giants of the Corps); May pg 34 Healing Process; Dec pg 48 “It Was On ...” A Marine Combat Smoke in the Cockpit! A Personal Anecdote From Crowley, USMCR, LtCol Timothy, Camp No Correspondent’s View From Behind His Camera the Korean War; May pg 50 Man’s Land; Oct pg 48 and His M16; Mar pg 20 Tigers in the Air: Flying Leathernecks of VMA-542 Daugherty Ill, USMCR, MSgt Leo J., Tradition of . Colonel Joseph R. “Bull” Fisher: A Marine’s in the Global War on Terror: May pg 28 Excellence, A: Marine Special Security Detail; Marine (Legend of the Corps); Dec pg 24 Vietnam 1965—Chu Lai’s SATS in the Early Oct pg 26 Milks, GySgt Keith A., War Among the Rocks: Stages of the War (Corps Album); May pg 48 Donovan, USMC (Ret), Col James A., Battlefield Standout Earns Navy Cross; Jun pg 20 Wild West: Marine Corps Aviators Support the More Salty Talk; Apr pg 42 Pacheco, Isaac D. (compiled by), ... And There Ground Troops in Iraq’s Explosive Al Anbar Dunn, SSgt Scott, Corporal Becomes First Was Light: Seeing Is Believing on the illuminated Marine Awarded Medal of Honor in the Battlefield (Technology/Gear); Sep pg 50 War on Terror; Dec pg 16 . “Edson’s Raiders” Storm Quantico; BOOKS REVIEWED Durr, USMCR, Maj Alex, “Kannibal Ken” Sep pg 66 Captain Kenneth L. Reusser Consumes a (edited by), Hot, Cold and Everything In American Spartans: The U.S. Marines: A Combat “Dragon Slayer”; Jul pg 40 Between: New Tools for a Changing Battlefield History From Iwo Jima to Iraq; Apr pg 62 Edwards, SSgt Timothy S., It Takes a Load of Talent (Technology/Gear); Apr pg 52 AWOL: The Unexcused Absence of America’s to Train an Iraqi Army (The Division Training . Marine Corps Eastern Recruiting Region: Upper Classes From Military Service, and How Center: Courses, Trainers and Facilities); Mar pg 40 Bridging the Gap Between Generation “Now” It Hurts Our Country; May pg 58 Fay, USMCR, WO Michael D., Faces in a Combat and Today’s Corps; Jul pg 30 Baby Jack; Nov pg 65 Zone; Nov pg 38 ____, Marine Corps Recruit Depot/Eastern Battle for Peace, The: A Frontline Vision of __ and Charles Grow, Marine Combat Art in Recruiting Region Parris Island (Post of the America’s Power and Purpose; Oct pg 64 Iraq and Afghanistan-—2005; Jun pg 42 Corps); Apr pg 34 Battleship Arizona’s Marines at War: Making the 78 LEATHERNECK DECEMBER 2006 www.mca-marines.org/leatherneck 2006 ANNUAL REFERENCE INDEX AUTHORS Fisher, Mike, Legacy of “Ding Dong” Bell, The Porte, Josh J., Rochester International Marine (sidebar); Jun pg 30 Tattoo, The; Aug pg 40 Allison, Dr. F. H., Tigers in the Air: Flying _____, Once Upon a Time in The Arizona: Severance, USMC (Ret), Col Dave E., Smoke in Leathernecks of VMA-542 in the Global War on Colonel Van D. Bell (Legend of the Corps); the Cockpit! A Personal Anecdote From the Terror; May pg 28 Jun pg 26 Korean War; May pg 50 Axe, David, Iraq Training, Hollywood Style; Ford, USMC (Ret), Col Walt, Cp! Dunham Snead, Cpl Micah, Marine Air in Iraq: 24MAW Nov pg 24 “Gallantly Gave His Life. ...” (sidebar); Dec pg 19 Concludes Successful OIF Deployment; . Wild West: Marine Corps Aviators , Thomason Sketches Peiping Promotion May pg 16 Support the Ground Troops in Iraq’s Explosive Parade (sidebar); Aug pg 27 Spence, Dustin, Unraveling the Mysteries of the Al Anbar Province; Aug pg 20 Grow, Charles and WO Michael D. Fay, USMCR, First Flag Raising; Oct pg 34 Bedwell, Don, Blowing Up a Storm Marine Combat Art in Iraq and Afghanistan Vasgerdsian, Ed, Bahrain Marine Security Guard Marine Forces Reserve Band Refuses to 2005; Jun pg 42 Detachment; Mar pg 24 Let Katrina Deter Its Mission; Mar pg 28 Hamel, Cpl James, Operation Iraqi Freedom . Corps’ Sergeant Major Visits, The (sidebar); Benhoff, USMCR, LtCol David, Among the Moves Forward With Herculean Effort From Mar pg 27 People: Sth Civil Affairs Group in Iraq; Jul pg 36 VMGR-252:; May pg 44 , In and Out of Bahrain FAST: A Corps Bevilacqua, USMC (Ret), Maj Allan ¢ Hevezi, Matt, Survival Skills at Heart of New Response to the War on Terrorism; Jun pg 16 “Next Time I Send Damn Fool | Go Myself” Helo Dunker; Jan pg 20 , Leatherneck Fleet Antiterrorism Security (Louis Cukela); Oct pg 52 Hochman, David, Let’s Go Thermal: Seeing Teams: A Different Capability; Jan pg 24 Bigelow, Bill, New Book Honors Arizona Through Dust and Smoke on the Battlefield: , Making FAST (sidebar); Jan pg 26 Marine Detachment (sidebar); Dec pg 22 Apr pg 58 Visconage, USMCR, Col Michael D., Field , USS Arizona Marine Corps Karcher, Mary D., Marine Barracks’ Grounds History Branch Mission (sidebar); Jun pg 36 Remembrance: A New Addition to the Pearl Combat Element Platoon Sows Seeds of , Getting It All Down: Marine Field Harbor Experience; Dec pg 20 Precision, Pride; Aug pg 32 Historians in Operation Iraqi Freedom; Jun pg 3 Bone, Margaret, Marines Make Aviation History , Marines’ History Finally Has a Home: Wagner, USMCR (Ret), LtCol Phil, Preserving MV-22 Ospreys Self-Deploy Across the Atlantic; National Museum of the Marine Corps Prepares the Corps’ History: Samoan Marine Uniform, Sep pg 44 for Opening Day; Jul pg 24 19th-Century Naval Reference Book Among Brett, Homer M., Marine Corps Martial Arts , Marines Love Their Birthday; Nov pg 48 Items Donated by World War II Marine; Program, The: One Mind, Any Weapon; Jan pg 34 , Women Marines March On! (Women Apr pg 32 Brill Jr., USMC (Ret), LtCol Arthur P., Update on Marines Association); Feb pg 32 Wheeler, USMCR, LtCol Kurt, Marines Train the Corps: General Michael W. Hagee, the 33rd Keene, R. R., 34th CMC Nominee: Visible, Allies for the War on Terror; Nov pg 50 Commandant of the Marine Corps; Sep pg 20 Candid Wartime Leader; Aug pg 14 White Jr., SSgt Houston F., “Charlie” Battery Brown, USMCR (Ret), LtCol Ronald J., , Fixed Targets for the Enemy: Engineers Satisfies an Appetite for Destruction; Feb pg 12 Vietnam’s Fields of Fire: Defending the An Hoa Risked It All Every Day to Get the Job Done Wilkinson, USMC (Ret), LtCol James B., Basin, 1966-70 (Vietnam: 40 Years Ago); (Vietnam); Sep pg 38 “Chieu Hoi” Speaks, The; Jan pg 16 CaFmebp pgJr .,2 4 USMC (Ret), Col Dick, “And the Band He Fo, lHluogwhed O’HBirs ianO:wn DIP,a thA;c toSre,p Hpugm a7n0i tarian AVIATION Played On”: The Marine Detachment, (compiled by), Landslide! Leathernecks USS Arizona; Dec pg 40 Lead in Frustrating Rescue and Recovery Army National Guard Helicopters Join Marine , Early Career of a Marine Legend, The: Operations; Apr pg 2¢ ) Aviation Combat Element (2/224th, AVN and General Eddie Craig (Giants of the Corps); . “Leatherneck Express”; Mar pg 36 MAG-16 (Rein), Al Anbar province); Jun pg 13 Nov pg 28 , Louts Lowery Captured Leatherneck Finer Points of Transitioning Helicopter , “Rugged Roy” Geiger and the Northern History on Film; Oct pg 32 Squadrons in Iraq, The (HMM-161 and -268, Bombing Group (Giants of the Corps); May pg 34 (compiled by), Marine Corps Stands Up MAG-16); May pg 22 Carpenter, Dennis, Bil! Gallo: In His Own Words Special Ops Command; Apr pg 60 “Griffins” Soar Iraqi Soldiers to Battle (Once a Marine); Nov pg 56 , Marines Rescue U.S. Citizens From (HMM-266, Operations Steel Curtain and Chaverri, USMCR, Sgt Joel A., “Pop A Smoke” Middle East Crossfire (Beirut, Lebanon); Moonlight); Mar pg 18 at Fort Worth: Marine Aircraft Buzz Landing Sep pg 26 “Jiffy Lube” for Leatherneck F/A-18 Hornets in Zone at Annual Cowtown Warbird Roundup , Was John W. Thomason Jr. Really the Iraq (VMFA(AW)-533, MAG-16 (Rein)): Nov pg 34 “Kipling of the Corps”? (sidebar); Aug pg 29 May pg 23 Clark, George B., Col John W. Thomason Jr. Kreisher, Otto, Corps’ New Ride, The: “Kannibal Ken”: Captain Kenneth L. Reusser The “Kipling of the Corps” (Giants of the Corps); Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle Nears Consumes a “Dragon Slayer”; Jul pg 40 Aug pg 26 Production Decision; Apr pg 14 Marine Air in Iraq: 24MAW Concludes , Hiram I. Bearss Marine (Giants of the Lehrack, USMC (Ret), LtCol Otto J., Operation Successful OIF Deployment; May pg 16 Corps); Jan pg 46 Hastings: The War Moves North (Vietnam: Marines Make Aviation History: MV-22 Ospreys Covert, USMCR, LtCol Craig, Marines on the 40 Years Ago); Jul pg 18 Self-Deploy Across the Atlantic; Sep pg 44 Borders of Iraq: Border Transition Teams Train Lewis, USMCR (Ret), LtCol Jack, Barrett’s Operation Iraqi Freedom Moves Forward With and Equip Iraqi Department of Border M468 Carbine; Feb pg 28 Herculean Effort From VMGR-252; May pg 44 Enforcement; Oct pg 22 Lopez, Sgt Mel, People’s Marathon” Turns 30, “The; “Pop A Smoke” at Fort Worth: Marine Aircraft , Protecting the Protectors—Marine Special Jan pg 38 Buzz Landing Zone at Annual Cowtown Agents of the Naval Criminal Investigative Mason Jr., H. M., National Museum of the Warbird Roundup; Nov pg 34 Service; Jul pg 50 Pacific War, The; Feb pg 42 “Rugged Roy” Geiger and the Northern Bombing , Wounded Warrior Barracks: Helping the McDonald, JoAnna M., Battle of Fallujah, The: Group (Giants of the Corps); May pg 34 Healing Process; Dec pg 48 “It Was On ...” A Marine Combat Smoke in the Cockpit! A Personal Anecdote From Crowley, USMCR, LtCol Timothy, Camp No Correspondent’s View From Behind His Camera the Korean War; May pg 50 Man’s Land; Oct pg 48 and His M16; Mar pg 20 Tigers in the Air: Flying Leathernecks of VMA-542 Daugherty Ill, USMCR, MSgt Leo J., Tradition of . Colonel Joseph R. “Bull” Fisher: A Marine’s in the Global War on Terror: May pg 28 Excellence, A: Marine Special Security Detail; Marine (Legend of the Corps); Dec pg 24 Vietnam 1965—Chu Lai’s SATS in the Early Oct pg 26 Milks, GySgt Keith A., War Among the Rocks: Stages of the War (Corps Album); May pg 48 Donovan, USMC (Ret), Col James A., Battlefield Standout Earns Navy Cross; Jun pg 20 Wild West: Marine Corps Aviators Support the More Salty Talk; Apr pg 42 Pacheco, Isaac D. (compiled by), ... And There Ground Troops in Iraq’s Explosive Al Anbar Dunn, SSgt Scott, Corporal Becomes First Was Light: Seeing Is Believing on the illuminated Marine Awarded Medal of Honor in the Battlefield (Technology/Gear); Sep pg 50 War on Terror; Dec pg 16 . “Edson’s Raiders” Storm Quantico; BOOKS REVIEWED Durr, USMCR, Maj Alex, “Kannibal Ken” Sep pg 66 Captain Kenneth L. Reusser Consumes a (edited by), Hot, Cold and Everything In American Spartans: The U.S. Marines: A Combat “Dragon Slayer”; Jul pg 40 Between: New Tools for a Changing Battlefield History From Iwo Jima to Iraq; Apr pg 62 Edwards, SSgt Timothy S., It Takes a Load of Talent (Technology/Gear); Apr pg 52 AWOL: The Unexcused Absence of America’s to Train an Iraqi Army (The Division Training . Marine Corps Eastern Recruiting Region: Upper Classes From Military Service, and How Center: Courses, Trainers and Facilities); Mar pg 40 Bridging the Gap Between Generation “Now” It Hurts Our Country; May pg 58 Fay, USMCR, WO Michael D., Faces in a Combat and Today’s Corps; Jul pg 30 Baby Jack; Nov pg 65 Zone; Nov pg 38 ____, Marine Corps Recruit Depot/Eastern Battle for Peace, The: A Frontline Vision of __ and Charles Grow, Marine Combat Art in Recruiting Region Parris Island (Post of the America’s Power and Purpose; Oct pg 64 Iraq and Afghanistan-—2005; Jun pg 42 Corps); Apr pg 34 Battleship Arizona’s Marines at War: Making the 78 LEATHERNECK DECEMBER 2006 www.mca-marines.org/leatherneck Ultimate Sacrifice, December 7, 1941; Dec pg 54 WORLD WAR II Dependence to Independence; Mar pg 15 Bloody Tarawa; Oct pg 65 Battle of Fallujah, The: “It Was On ...” A Marine Boys of °67: From Vietnam to Iraq, the “And the Band Played On”: The Marine Combat Correspondent’s View From Behind His Extraordinary Story of aF ew Good Men; Detachment, USS Arizona; Dec pg 40 Camera and His M16; Mar pg 20 Mar pg 50 “Edson’s Raiders” Storm Quantico; Sep pg 66 Battling the Elements, Insurgents and Improvised Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and “Kannibal Ken”: Captain Kenneth L. Reusser Explosive Devices (A/1/7, Al Anbar province): Occupation of Iraq; Jun pg 48 Consumes a “Dragon Slayer’; Jul pg 40 Sep pg 32 Fallujah, With Honor: First Battalion, Eighth Louis Lowery Captured Leatherneck History on Bomber Attacks Police Volunteers; Yet More Than Marines’ Role in Operation Phantom Fury: Film; Oct pg 32 300 Join Police Force (RCT-5, Fallujah): Aug pg 52 National Museum of the Pacific War, The; Jul pg 14 Few Marines, A; Jul pg 62 Feb pg 42 Camp No Man’s Land (Trebil POE); Oct pg 48 Few and the Proud, The: Marine Corps Drill Unraveling the Mysteries of the First Flag Camp Pendleton-Based | MEF Units on Third Instructors in Their Own Words; Nov pg 62 Raising; Oct pg 34 Deployment to Iraq; Apr pg 20 Indestructible: The Unforgettable Story of a “Charlie” Battery Satisfies an Appetite for Marine Hero at the Battle of Iwo Jima; Nov pg 63 KOREAN WAR Destruction (C/1/11, Al Anbar province); Iwo Jima: Portrait of a Battle: United States Feb pg 12 Marines at War in the Pacific; Dec pg 55 Smoke in the Cockpit! A Personal Anecdote From Civil Affairs Is Link to Community, Helps Give Jungle Rules: A True Story of Marine Justice in the Korean War; May pg 50 Power Back to the People (6th CAG, Barwanah); Vietnam; Dec pg 67 Apr pg 24 Marine Air: The History of the Flying VIETNAM WAR Clearing IEDs Is Stressful, Dangerous but Leathernecks in Words and Photos; May pg 59 Rewarding for Engineers (Co A, 9th ESB, Marines in the Garden of Eden: The Battle for An “Chieu Hoi” Speaks, The; Jan pg 16 Ist MLG (Fwd), Al Anbar province); Nov pg 20 Nasiriyah; Sep pg 78 Fixed Targets for the Enemy: Engineers Risked It Corporal Becomes First Marine Awarded No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle All Every Day to Get the Job Done; Sep pg 38 Medal of Honor in the War on Terror; Dec pg 16 for Fallujah; Jan pg 52 Legacy of “Ding Dong” Bell, The (sidebar); “Cpl Dunham Gallantly Gave His Life. ...” (sidebar); Passion of Command, The: The Moral Imperative Jun pg 30 Dec pg 19 of Leadership; Jul pg 62 Once Upon a Time in The Arizona: Colonel Every Marine Plays a Vital Role During Convoys Quiet Hero, The: The Untold Medal of Honor Van D. Bell (Legend of the Corps); Jun pg 26 Story of George E. Whalen at the Battle for Operation Hastings: The War Moves North; Faces in a Combat Zone; Nov pg 38 Iwo Jima; Sep pg 79 Jul pg 18 Finer Points of Transitioning Helicopter Red Plateau: Memoir of a North Vietnamese Vietnam 1965—Chu Lai’s SATS in the Early Squadrons in Iraq, The (HMM-161 and -268, Soldier; Jun pg 49 Stages of the War (Corps Album); May pg 48 MAG-16); May pg 22 Southern Journey of a Civil War Marine, The: Vietnam’s Fields of Fire: Defending the An Hoa From the Countryside to Patrolling Crowded The Illustrated Note-Book of Henry O. Gusley; Basin, 1966-70; Feb pg 24 Streets (A/1/25, RCT-5, Fallujah); Aug pg 17 Apr pg 62 Getting It All Down: Marine Field Historians in Stay Off the Skyline: The Sixth Marine Division THE WAR ON TERROR Operation Iraqi Freedom; Jun pg 34 on Okinawa—An Oral History; Feb pg 54 “Green Dragons” Repel Insurgents and Their Terrorist Trail: Backtracking the Foreign Fighter; II] MEF Deploys for Relief Effort (Muzaffarabad, Deadly Explosives (Co B, 2d AA Bn, Oct pg 75 Pakistan); Jan pg 12 2dMarDiv); Jan pg 15 Twins Platoon, The: An Epic Story of Young II] MEF Servicemembers Relieve Suffering in “Griffins” Soar Iraqi Soldiers to Battle Marines at War in Vietnam; Sep pg 90 Pakistan; Feb pg 21 (HMM-266, Operations Steel Curtain and Uncommon Valor, Common Virtue: Iwo Jima and In and Out of Bahrain FAST: A Corps Response Moonlight); Mar pg 18 the Photograph That Captured America; Jul pg 63 to the War on Terrorism; Jun pg 16 Iraq Training, Hollywood Style; Nov pg 24 United States Army Second Division Northwest Marines Rescue U.S. “itizens From Middle East Iraqi Army Takes Big Step Toward Independent of Chateau Thierry in World War I, The; Crossfire (Beirut, Lebanon); Sep pg 26 Operations (Camp Habbaniyah); Nov pg 19 Aug pg 52 Marines Train Allies for the War on Terror: Iraqi Battalion Takes Responsibility for a Bigger War in the Pacific (Volume III): The Road to Nov pg 50 Chunk of Al Anbar Province; Apr pg 23 Tokyo; Feb pg 55 Iraqis, Marines Capture 65 Suspected Insurgents, OPERATION ENDURING 62 Tons of Ammo, Weapons (3/1, Operation CORPS ALBUM Lion, western Al Anbar province); May pg 24 FREEDOM (Afghanistan) ISF Making Strides and Taking the Load Photos From the Bottom of the Footlocker; Sep pg 64 (2dMarDiv, Al Anbar province); Jan pg 13 Vietnam 1965—Chu Lai’s SATS in the Early 2/3 Proves No Mountain Too Small (Operation It Takes a Load of Talent to Train an Iraqi Army Stages of the War; May pg 48 Pil, Watapor Valley, Jalalabad); Jan pg 12 (The Division Training Center: Courses, Trainers World War II in the Pacific; Apr pg 44 Concentrating on the Children in Order to Defeat and Facilities); Mar pg 40 the Taliban (1/3, Rechah Lam); Jun pg 15 It Takes Ammunition and Weapons, But It Also HISTORY Faces in a Combat Zone; Nov pg 38 Requires School Supplies (4th CAG, Det 4-2, Marine Combat Art in Iraq and Afghanistan Operation Benefit Day, Al Anbar province); Colonel Joseph R. “Bull” Fisher: A Marine’s 2005; Jun pg 42 Dec pg 35 Marine (Legend of the Corps); Dec pg 24 Marines, Sailors Search “Difficult” Valleys of “Jiffy Lube” for Leatherneck F/A-18 Hornets in Early Career of a Marine Legend, The: General Afghanistan (2/3, IIl MEF, Operation Red Iraq (VMFA(AW)-533, MAG-16 (Rein)); Eddie Craig (Giants of the Corps); Nov pg 28 Donkey, Jalalabad); Feb pg 21 May pg 23 Field History Branch Mission (sidebar); Jun pg 36 Tigers in the Air: Flying Leathernecks of Life on the Road With “Delta” Company Marines’ History Finally Has a Home: National VMA-542 in the Global War on Terror; May pg 28 (3d LAR Bn, Al Anbar province); Sep pg 30 Museum of the Marine Corps Prepares for War Among the Rocks: Battlefield Standout Machine-Gun-Toting Marines Sweep Mean Opening Day; Jul pg 24 Earns Navy Cross (BLT 1/6); Jun pg 20 Streets (Wpns Co, 3/8, Ar Ramadi); Aug pg 16 Preserving the Corps’ History: Samoan Marine Marine Advisor Key in Building Trust Among OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM Uniform, 19th-Century Naval Reference Book Iraqis; Mar pg 17 Among Items Donated by World War II Marine; Marine Air in Iraq: 24MAW Concludes Apr pg 32 2d Recon Stirs the Hornet’s Nest and Opens Successful OIF Deployment; May pg 16 Thomason Sketches Peiping Promotion Parade Weapons Caches (Mushin, Operation Rubicon); Marine Combat Art in Iraq and Afghanistan (sidebar); Aug pg 27 Nov pg 18 2005; Jun pg 42 Tradition of Excellence, A: Marine Special 3d LAR Takes Up the Watch in Iraq’s Southwest Marines Continue to Rout Insurgents and Security Detail; Oct pg 26 Desert (Al Anbar province); Jun pg 12 Construct Bases (Operation Stee! Curtain, Although Their Robot Bit the Dust, EOD’s Team Al Anbar province); Feb pg 19 WORLD WAR | Rogaine Works On (Al Anbar province); Marines Drop “Steel Curtain” on Border Towns Oct pg 18 (3d Plt, L/3/6, Operation Steel Curtain, Al Anbar Col John W. Thomason Jr.: The “Kipling of the Among the People: 5th Civil Affairs Group in province); Feb pg 18 Corps” (Giants of the Corps); Aug pg 26 Iraq; Jul pg 36 Marines, Iraqis Patrol Streets, Open Doors of Hit Hiram I. Bearss—Marine (Giants of the Corps); Army National Guard Helicopters Join Marine (Co C, BLT 1/2, 22d MEU(SOC)); Apr pg 20 Jan pg 46 Aviation Combat Element (2/224th, AVN and Marines Keep Iraq’s Waterways Safe (3/3); Sep pg 29 “Rugged Roy” Geiger and the Northern Bombing MAG-16 (Rein), Al Anbar province); Jun pg 13 Marines on the Borders of Iraq: Border Transition Group (Giants of the Corps); May pg 34 As Marines Step Back, Fallujah Goes From Teams Train and Equip Iraqi Department of DECEMBER 2006 LEATHERNECK fey www.mca-marines.org/leatherneck Border Enforcement; Oct pg 22 More Salty Talk; Apr pg 42 Viggiani, SSgt Anthony L. (War Among the Marines Rescue Three Hostages, Uncover Large New Book Honors Arizona Marine Detachment Rocks: Battlefield Standout Earns Navy Cross); Weapons Caches (1/25, Operation Spotlight, (sidebar); Dec pg 22 Jun pg 20 Fuhuylat); Oct pg 20 Rochester International Marine Tattoo, The; Wilson, LCp] Galen E. “Whiskey” (Sniper Marines, SEALS Capture 21 Insurgents (3d LAR Aug pg 40 “Whiskey’s” Comrades Say He’s Dead-Cn Bn, Al Anbar province); Oct pg 16 Protecting the Protectors—Marine Special Agents Target Every Time); Oct pg 18 Military Working Dogs Share the Burden (3/2, of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service; POSTS OF THE CORPS west of Habbaniyah); Nov pg 22 Jul pg 50 MiTT Members Help Shape Iraqi Army Upstarts Senior Leaders of Our Corps—2007 (Insert); (An Numaniyah); Feb pg 19 Nov pg Al Bahrain Marine Security Guard Detachment; New, Improved Combat Gunner Turrets: Update on the Corps: General Michael W. Hagee, Mar pg 24 \ Blessing From the Gods” (RCT-5, Fallujah): the 33rd Commandant of the Marine Corps; Marine Corps Recruit Depot/Eastern Recruiting Jul pg 16 - Sep pg 20 Region Parris Island; Apr pg 34 New Police Force in Border Town Ready to Solo USS Arizona Marine Corps Remembrance: (B/1/7, Husaybah); Aug pg 18 \ New Addition to the Pearl Harbor Experience; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT Not There “to Destroy,” But “to Build” (Wpns Co, Dec pg 20 (Technology/Gear) 3/2, Husaybah); Oct pg 17 Wounded Warrior Barracks: Helping the Healing Now the Insurgents Want to Blow Up an Iraqi Process; Dec pg 48 School in Karabilah (1/7, 3d CAG); ... And There Was Light: Seeing Is Believing on OVERSEAS the Illuminated Battlefield; Sep pg 50 Sep pg 28 On the Border, Hundreds Seek Refuge From Barrett’s M468 Carbine; Feb pg 28 Baghdad Violence; Jul pg 15 Landslide! Leathernecks Lead in Frustrating Corps’ New Ride, The: Expeditionary Fighting Operation Iraqi Freedom Moves Forward With Rescue and Recovery Operations (Philippines); Vehicle Nears Production Decision; Apr pg 14 Herculean Effort From VMGR-252; May pg 44 Apr pg 26 Hot, Cold and Everything In Between: New Tools Operation Jaws V Takes Bite Out of Insurgents Leatherneck Fleet Antiterrorism Security Teams: for a Changing Battlefield; Apr pg 52 (2/6, Fallujah); May pg 25 \ Different Capability; Jan pg 24 Let’s Go Thermal: Seeing Through Dust and Operation Liberty Express (II1): lraqis Go to the Making FAST (sidebar); Jan pg 26 Smoke on the Battlefield; Apr pg 58 Polls in Massive Numbers (2/6 and CLB-2, Al Marines Make Aviation History: MV-22 Ospreys Anbar province); Mar pg 14 PERSONALITIES Self-Deploy Across the Atlantic; Sep pg 44 Recon Marine Fights Through Injuries, Takes Out Survival Skills at Heart of New Helo Dunker; Insurgents (E/3/2, Operation Southern Fire, Bearss, Hiram I. (Giants of the Corps, Hiram | Jan pg 20 Al Amariyah); Jan pg 13 Bearss—Marine); Jan pg 46 RESERVE Shopping for Weapons in the Market (1/25, RCT-5 Bell, Col Van D. (Legend of the Corps, Once Fallujah); Dec pg 33 Upon a Time in The Arizona); Jun pg 26 Sniper “Whiskey’s” Comrades Say He’s Dead-On Chaverri, USMCR, Sgt Joel A. (Battle of Among the People: 5th Civil Affairs Group in Target Every Time (Ar Ramadi); Oct pg 18 Fallujah, The: “It Was On ...” A Marine Iraq; Jul pg 36 Tank-Infantry Team Denies Insurgency Neat Combat Correspondent’s View From Behind His Battle of Fallujah, The: “It Was On ..2” A Marine Fallujah (RCT-5); Jun pg 14 Camera and His M16); Mar pg 20 Combat Correspondent’s View From Behind His Tigers in the Air: Flying Leathernecks of VMA-542 Christian, John K. “Jack” (Behind the Lines); Camera and His M16; Mar pg 20 in the Global War on Terror; May pg 28 Apr pg 10 Blowing Up a Storm: Marine Forces Reserve Wild West: Marine Corps Aviators Support the Conway, LtGen James T. (34th CMC Nominee: Band Refuses to Let Katrina Deter Its Mission; Ground Troops in Iraq’s Explosive Al Anbar Visible, Candid Wartime Leader): Aug pg 14 Mar pg 28 Province (VMFA(AW)-332); Aug pg 20 Costello, John M. (The War on Terror: Marine Field History Branch Mission (sidebar); Jun pg 36 Wounded Iraqi Police Chief Says Key to Safer Advisor Key in Building Trust Among Iraqis): Getting It All Down: Marine Field Historians in Iraq Is Securing Province (western Al Anbar Mar pg 17 Operation Iraqi Freedom; Jun pg 34 province); Dec pg 32 Craig, LtGen Eddie A. (Giants of the Corps, REUNIONS/CONFERENCES Early Career of a Marine Legend, The MEDALS & DECORATIONS General Eddie Craig); Nov pg 28 Cukela, Louis (“Next Time I Send Damn Fool | “Edson’s Raiders” Storm Quantico; Sep pg 66 Corporal Becomes First Marine Awarded Go Myself”); Oct pg 52 “Pop A Smoke” at Fort Worth: Marine Aircraft Medal of Honor in the War on Terror; Dec pg 16 Dinkel, G. Scott (Behind the Lines); Apr pg 10 Buzz Landing Zone at Annual Cowtown Cpl Dunham “Gallantly Gave His Life. ...” Dunham, Cpl Jason L. (Corporal Becomes First Warbird Roundup; Nov pg 34 (sidebar); Dec pg 19 Marine Awarded Medal of Honor in the Tradition of Excellence, A: Marine Special In the Highest Tradition; Feb pg 48, Mar pg 44, War on Terror); Dec pg 16 Security Detail; Oct pg 26 May pg 52, Jul pg 54, Aug pg 44, Sep pg 74, Estrada, SgtMaj John L. (Corps’ Sergeant Major Women Marines March On! (Women Marines Oct pg 60, Nov pg 58 Visits, The) (sidebar); Mar pg 27 Association); Feb pg 32 War Among the Rocks: Battlefield Standout Fisher, USMC (Ret), Col Joseph R. (Legend of SPORTS Earns Navy Cross; Jun pg 20 the Corps, Colonel Joseph R. “Bull” Fisher: A Marine’s Marine); Dec pg 24 MISCELLANEOUS Gallo, Bill (Once a Marine, Bill Gallo: In His Bill Gallo: In His Own Words (Once a Marine); Own Words); Nov pg 56 Nov pg 56 34th CMC Nominee: Visible, Candid Wartime Geiger, Maj Roy (Giants of the Corps, “Rugged People’s Marathon” Turns 30, “The; Jan pg 38 Leader; Aug pg 14 Roy” Geiger and the Northern Bombing Group); TRAINING/EXERCISES 2005 Annual Report: Marine Corps Association; May pg 34 Mar, Special Insert Glasgow, USMC (Ret), Col John P. “Jack” Blowing Up a Storm: Marine Forces Reserve (Behind the Lines); Aug pg 12 Iraq Training, Hollywood Style (Exercise Mojave Band Refuses to Let Katrina Deter Its Mission; Hagee, Gen Michael W. (Update on the Corps: Viper); Nov pg 24 Mar pg 28 General Michael W. Hagee, the 33rd It Takes a Load of Talent to Train an Iraqi Army “Leatherneck Express”; Mar pg 36 Commandant of the Marine Corps); Sep pg 20 (The Division Training Center: Courses, Marine Barracks’ Grounds Combat Element Keenan, USMC (Ret), Col John A. (Behind the Trainers and Facilities); Mar pg 40 Platoon Sows Seeds of Precision, Pride; Lines); Aug pg 12 Leatherneck Fleet Antiterrorism Security Teams: Aug pg 32 Lowery, Sgt Louis (Louis Lowery Captured A Different Capability; Jan pg 24 Marine Corps Eastern Recruiting Region Leatherneck History on Film); Oct pg 32 Making FAST (sidebar); Jan pg 26 Bridging the Gap Between Generation “Now” O'Brian, Hugh (Hugh O’Brian: DI, Actor, Marine Corps Martial Arts Program, The: ind Today’s Corps: Jul pg 30 Humanitarian—He Followed His Own Path); One Mind, Any Weapon; Jan pg 34 Marine Corps Stands Up Special Ops Command; Sep pg 70 Marine Corps Recruit Depot/Eastern Recruiting Apr pg 60 Pacheco, Isaac D. (Behind the Lines); Mar pg 10 Region Parris Island (Post of the Corps); Marines Love Their Birthday; Nov pg 48 Reusser, Capt Kenneth L. (“Kannibal Ken”: Apr pg 34 Message From the Commandant of the Marine Captain Kenneth L. Reusser Consumes a Marines Train Allies for the War on Terror; Corps, A; Nov pg 16 “Dragon Slayer”); Jul pg 40 Nov pg 50 Message From the 34th Commandant of the Thomason Jr., Col John W. (Giants of the Corps, Survival Skills at Heart of New Helo Dunker; 2 Marine Corps, A, General James T. Conway: Col John W. Thomason Jr.: The “Kipling of the Jan pg 20 Dec pe 14 Corps”); Aug pg 26 |8 0 | LEATHERNECK DECEMBER 2006 www.mca-marines.org/leatherneck