2011 ANNUAL REFERENCE INDEX ATHLETICS/SPORTS ____, Wounded Marine Careers Foundation, __, There Are No Alibis; Jun pg 22 The: Checking In; Aug pg 36 _ and Guerrero, Clare A., Sergeant Major of Combat Shooting Team Tops at British Match; Eames, Capt Caleb D. and Wright Jr., the Marine Corps Carlton Kent; Jun pg 10 Jan pg 46 GySgt J. L., Operation Tomodachi: Marines Kelley, Michael L., Evacuation of the DAO Corps’ Athletes Increase Awareness Respond to Disaster in Japan; May pg 34 Compound and the Saigon Embassy, The About Opportunities for Women (volleyball); Elliott (Ret), Maj John M., No Marine Artillery (Operation Frequent Wind, Vietnam); Apr pg 60 for WW I Leathernecks; Oct pg 32 Apr pg 22 Corps’ Top Leaders Pump Up Marines at Flynn, LCpl David, Snapshot ... of a Recruiter’s ____, Postscript (sidebar); Apr pg 27 Warrior Games; Aug pg 42 World, A; Jul pg 14 Kellum, Michael Dan, Cam Sa Raid Gene Smith Story, The: Touring With the Flynn, PFC David, Marines “Get Connected”: aka “the August 4 Caper”; May pg 2 Golfing Pros; Mar pg 4 Marine Corps Recruiting Command Launches Kreisher, Otte, Marines Exploit Expanding Girls Softball Team Honors KIA Marine; New Facebook Application; Feb pg 50 Array of Unmanned Aircraft Systems; Nov pg 72 __, Semper Fidelis Bowl to Showcase May pg 29 MMaA Provides Physical Fitness, Helps Marines Future Stars; Jul pg 28 Lash, USMC (Ret), Maj Fred C., Thinking Stay Combat-Ready; Nov pg 42 Gaddo (Ret), CWO-4 Randy, Kings Bay: Outside the Box: The Marine Warfighting Semper Fidelis Bowl to Showcase Future Stars; Rich in History and Things to Do (sidebar); Laboratory; Sep pg 22 Jul pg 28 Nov pg 65 Lehrack, LtCol Otto J., Giants of the Corps: Suspension Training: TRX Taking Fitness to __, Marine Corps Security Force Battalion: Herman Hanneken—A Very Deadly Marine; the Next Level; Sep pg 52 Kings Bay (Ga.)—Guarding Nuclear Subs and Nov pg 50 Wounded Warriors Compete During First Their Weapons: Serious Business; Nov pg 62 Lodder, LCpl Reece E., Polishing Perishable Marine Corps Trials; Apr pg 38 Gaede, USMCR (Ret), LtCol Charles S., Skills: 4th Force Recon Marines Train in Vietnam Marines Honor Their Corpsman; Hawaii; Mar pg 50 AUTHORS Dec pg 52 Lubin, Andrew, Marine Artillery in Grasselii (Ret), Maj A. A., Remembrance, Afghanistan: 1/11—Every Marine an Avitt, Cpl Andrew S., Massive Mock City A: Belleau Wood and General Lemuel C. Infantryman and a Cannoneer; Mar pg 38 Training Complex Prepares Marines for War Shepherd; Jun pg 46 ___, New “Strategic” Combat Correspondent (MCAGCC Twentynine Palms, Calif.); Guerrero, Clare A., Dakota Meyer Challenges in Afghanistan, The; Sep pg 48 Apr pg 54 U.S. to Match His $1 Million Pledge for ____, Spirit of America: Connecting Bedwell, Don, Band of America’s Few: Former Scholarships; Dec pg 22 Americans With the Marines and the Mission; Marine Musicians Take an Encore; Oct pg 58 ____, “Liz” Kent—The Sergeant Major’s Secret Dec pg 18 Belding, Susan, New Beginnings: A School Weapon (sidebar); Jun pg 14 McKenney (Ret), LtCol Tom C. and Tonkin, Where Failure Is Not an Option; May pg 53 Racing Toward Hope; Oct pg 36 John B., Those Unsung Heroes and Their __, Timing Helps Where Motivation and Hall, Robert A., Old Corps Marines; Nov pg 58 R4Ds: The Len Mapes Story; Jun pg 28 Drive Exist (sidebar); May pg 56 Hammel, Eric, December 1941; Dec pg 40 McTernan (Ret), LtCol Walter F. and Kullberg, Bevilacqua, USMC (Ret), Maj Allan C., Hazard, Cpl Austin, Under Wraps: The Home USAF (Ret), LtCol Andrew D., Citadel, The: Two Tours in Hell; Mar pg 32 of theC ommandants; Jun pg 32 The Military College of South Carolina; Botkin, Richard, From Skid Row to the Corps, Hoffman, Nancy Lee White, Operations Desert Jan pg 32 “Machete Eddie” McCourt Becomes a Shield and Desert Storm; Jan pg 28 ___, Citadel Cadets in the War on Terrorism, “Go-To” Warrior; Aug pg 28 Hoffman, Nancy Lee White, Operations Desert The (sidebar); Jan pg 37 Brent, P.T., Golden Gate (sidebar); Feb pg 25 Shield and Desert Storm; Feb pg 28 Miller, J. Kater, Operation Desert Shield/Desert ___, “Pride of the Pacific, The”: The 11th Hugel, David H., Marine Corps Scholarship Storm Remembered in New National Museum Marine Expeditionary Unit Storms the Foundation, The: “Honoring Marines by of the Marine Corps Exhibit; Jan pg 13 Golden Gate During Fleet Week; Feb pg2 2 Educating Their Children”; Jan pg 26 Nusbaumer, Stewart, Force Reconnaissance: Brill Jr., Arthur P., Amphibiosity (sidebar); ____, Ron Zaczek: The Crew Chief Who The Commander’s Eyes and Ears; Nov pg 24 Nov pg 14 Couldn’t Forget the Marines on Hill 665 __, MARSOC: The Special Operations _, Corps and the Way Ahead, The: Gen (Part I); Jul pg 18 Capabilities Specialists of Marine Special James F. Amos Reviews His First Year as _, Ron Zaczek: The Crew Chief Who Operations Support Group; Aug pg 32 Commandant and Outlines the Future; Couldn’t Forget the Marines on Hill 665 Paxton, (Ret), Capt Jack T., Gene Smith Story, Nov pg 12 (Part II); Aug pg 46 The: Touring With the Golfing Pros; Mar pg 47 , From the Ranks: The Corps’ Sth Special Ikins, USMCR (Ret), Col Charles G., “Digger Person, Andy, GI Bill, The—A Game-Changer “Basic Class, 1951; Oct pg 26 Marine,” The: An Odyssey From Okinawa to for Life and Money in Your Pocket; Jun pg 43 __, In Call With the Commandant: General Canberra; Mar pg 26 Pool-Camp, Suzanne and Camp, Dick, James F. Amos and the Corps; Mar pg 18 James, Cpl Rashaun X., Marine Corps Makes Eyewitnesses to Murder: Marines With Camp, Dick, Eyewitness to Combat: Firefight Aviation History With Intercontinental Flight; Lincoln to the End; Apr pg 44 at New Ubaydi, Iraq, November 2005 (Part I); Jul pg 29 ____, Francis Maria Scala—‘Leader of the Nov pg 44 Jordan, USMC (Ret), Maj Robert T., Telling the Band” (sidebar); Jan pg 16 ____, Eyewitness to Combat: Firefight at Marine Corps Story in Wartime: “War Shots”; _, Henry C. Cochrane Marine on the New Ubaydi, Iraq, November 2005 (Part II); Apr pg 62 Scene (sidebar); Jan pg 15 Dec pg 30 Karcher, Mary D., “Walk Through Time, A”: ___, History of the Band to the End of the Cary, Emily Pritchard, Virginia International Five Decades of the Women Marines Civil War (sidebar); Jan pg 17 Tattoo, The; Jul pg 24 Association; Feb pg 36 ___, Lincoln and the Marines at Gettysburg; Comerford, USN, MC1(AW) Tim, Suspension Keene, R. R., “Ballad of the Green Berets”? Jan pg 14 Training: TRX—Taking Fitness to the Next The Corps Had “The Marine’s Ballad”; ___, Major Richard Strader Collum Level; Sep pg 52 Apr pg 40 Marine on the Scene (sidebar); Apr pg 45 Cormier, Capt Clifton J., Iceland 1941; Jul pg 36 ___, Because Marines Never Forget (Part I); ____, “They Have Killed Papa Dead! They Darack, Ed, Everyday Warfighters, The: “Oct pg 40 Have Killed Papa Dead!” (sidebar); Apr pg 46 Indefatigable Mission Fidelity in the Modern ____, Because Marines Never Forget (Part II); Rothwell, (Ret), Col Richard B., Last of the Toil of War; Jul pg 32 Nov Pe 32 First Club, The: Who'll Make That Poignant Darling, LtCol Robert J., September 11, 2001: ___, Combat Shooting Team Tops at British and Final Toast?; Aug pg 18 Morning Unlike Any Other, A; Sep pg 18 “Match; Jan pg 46 Rupert, Jack, It’s Tough to be a Deputy in Dietz, LCpl Sarah, Bridgeport Keeps Marines in the Fight; Sep pg 40 __, “Marine Anthology, A: In the Spirit of the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Department “Semper Fidelis”; Mar pg 58 (sidebar); Apr pg 21 ___, “Red Hats” Train Marines for Any Climb “and Place (sidebar); Sep pg 42 ____, Marine Assumes Post as Senior Enlisted ___, Sheriff Simon L. Leis Jr. Stilla Advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs; "Marine; Apr pg 18 Duffin, Allan T., Quiet Waters, Healing Dec pg 26 Smith-Christmas, Kenneth L., “Father of Warriors: How Fly-Fishing Helps Wounded Combat Vets Recuperate; Dec pg 46 ____, Ready to Assist in Shaping Total Force Dive-Bombing”?, The; May pg 48 (sidebar); Dec pg 27 __, National Museum of the Marine Corps’ LEATHERNECK DECEMBER 2011 www.mca-marines.org/leatherneck 2011 ANNUAL REFERENCE INDEX ATHLETICS/SPORTS ____, Wounded Marine Careers Foundation, __, There Are No Alibis; Jun pg 22 The: Checking In; Aug pg 36 _ and Guerrero, Clare A., Sergeant Major of Combat Shooting Team Tops at British Match; Eames, Capt Caleb D. and Wright Jr., the Marine Corps Carlton Kent; Jun pg 10 Jan pg 46 GySgt J. L., Operation Tomodachi: Marines Kelley, Michael L., Evacuation of the DAO Corps’ Athletes Increase Awareness Respond to Disaster in Japan; May pg 34 Compound and the Saigon Embassy, The About Opportunities for Women (volleyball); Elliott (Ret), Maj John M., No Marine Artillery (Operation Frequent Wind, Vietnam); Apr pg 60 for WW I Leathernecks; Oct pg 32 Apr pg 22 Corps’ Top Leaders Pump Up Marines at Flynn, LCpl David, Snapshot ... of a Recruiter’s ____, Postscript (sidebar); Apr pg 27 Warrior Games; Aug pg 42 World, A; Jul pg 14 Kellum, Michael Dan, Cam Sa Raid Gene Smith Story, The: Touring With the Flynn, PFC David, Marines “Get Connected”: aka “the August 4 Caper”; May pg 2 Golfing Pros; Mar pg 4 Marine Corps Recruiting Command Launches Kreisher, Otte, Marines Exploit Expanding Girls Softball Team Honors KIA Marine; New Facebook Application; Feb pg 50 Array of Unmanned Aircraft Systems; Nov pg 72 __, Semper Fidelis Bowl to Showcase May pg 29 MMaA Provides Physical Fitness, Helps Marines Future Stars; Jul pg 28 Lash, USMC (Ret), Maj Fred C., Thinking Stay Combat-Ready; Nov pg 42 Gaddo (Ret), CWO-4 Randy, Kings Bay: Outside the Box: The Marine Warfighting Semper Fidelis Bowl to Showcase Future Stars; Rich in History and Things to Do (sidebar); Laboratory; Sep pg 22 Jul pg 28 Nov pg 65 Lehrack, LtCol Otto J., Giants of the Corps: Suspension Training: TRX Taking Fitness to __, Marine Corps Security Force Battalion: Herman Hanneken—A Very Deadly Marine; the Next Level; Sep pg 52 Kings Bay (Ga.)—Guarding Nuclear Subs and Nov pg 50 Wounded Warriors Compete During First Their Weapons: Serious Business; Nov pg 62 Lodder, LCpl Reece E., Polishing Perishable Marine Corps Trials; Apr pg 38 Gaede, USMCR (Ret), LtCol Charles S., Skills: 4th Force Recon Marines Train in Vietnam Marines Honor Their Corpsman; Hawaii; Mar pg 50 AUTHORS Dec pg 52 Lubin, Andrew, Marine Artillery in Grasselii (Ret), Maj A. A., Remembrance, Afghanistan: 1/11—Every Marine an Avitt, Cpl Andrew S., Massive Mock City A: Belleau Wood and General Lemuel C. Infantryman and a Cannoneer; Mar pg 38 Training Complex Prepares Marines for War Shepherd; Jun pg 46 ___, New “Strategic” Combat Correspondent (MCAGCC Twentynine Palms, Calif.); Guerrero, Clare A., Dakota Meyer Challenges in Afghanistan, The; Sep pg 48 Apr pg 54 U.S. to Match His $1 Million Pledge for ____, Spirit of America: Connecting Bedwell, Don, Band of America’s Few: Former Scholarships; Dec pg 22 Americans With the Marines and the Mission; Marine Musicians Take an Encore; Oct pg 58 ____, “Liz” Kent—The Sergeant Major’s Secret Dec pg 18 Belding, Susan, New Beginnings: A School Weapon (sidebar); Jun pg 14 McKenney (Ret), LtCol Tom C. and Tonkin, Where Failure Is Not an Option; May pg 53 Racing Toward Hope; Oct pg 36 John B., Those Unsung Heroes and Their __, Timing Helps Where Motivation and Hall, Robert A., Old Corps Marines; Nov pg 58 R4Ds: The Len Mapes Story; Jun pg 28 Drive Exist (sidebar); May pg 56 Hammel, Eric, December 1941; Dec pg 40 McTernan (Ret), LtCol Walter F. and Kullberg, Bevilacqua, USMC (Ret), Maj Allan C., Hazard, Cpl Austin, Under Wraps: The Home USAF (Ret), LtCol Andrew D., Citadel, The: Two Tours in Hell; Mar pg 32 of theC ommandants; Jun pg 32 The Military College of South Carolina; Botkin, Richard, From Skid Row to the Corps, Hoffman, Nancy Lee White, Operations Desert Jan pg 32 “Machete Eddie” McCourt Becomes a Shield and Desert Storm; Jan pg 28 ___, Citadel Cadets in the War on Terrorism, “Go-To” Warrior; Aug pg 28 Hoffman, Nancy Lee White, Operations Desert The (sidebar); Jan pg 37 Brent, P.T., Golden Gate (sidebar); Feb pg 25 Shield and Desert Storm; Feb pg 28 Miller, J. Kater, Operation Desert Shield/Desert ___, “Pride of the Pacific, The”: The 11th Hugel, David H., Marine Corps Scholarship Storm Remembered in New National Museum Marine Expeditionary Unit Storms the Foundation, The: “Honoring Marines by of the Marine Corps Exhibit; Jan pg 13 Golden Gate During Fleet Week; Feb pg2 2 Educating Their Children”; Jan pg 26 Nusbaumer, Stewart, Force Reconnaissance: Brill Jr., Arthur P., Amphibiosity (sidebar); ____, Ron Zaczek: The Crew Chief Who The Commander’s Eyes and Ears; Nov pg 24 Nov pg 14 Couldn’t Forget the Marines on Hill 665 __, MARSOC: The Special Operations _, Corps and the Way Ahead, The: Gen (Part I); Jul pg 18 Capabilities Specialists of Marine Special James F. Amos Reviews His First Year as _, Ron Zaczek: The Crew Chief Who Operations Support Group; Aug pg 32 Commandant and Outlines the Future; Couldn’t Forget the Marines on Hill 665 Paxton, (Ret), Capt Jack T., Gene Smith Story, Nov pg 12 (Part II); Aug pg 46 The: Touring With the Golfing Pros; Mar pg 47 , From the Ranks: The Corps’ Sth Special Ikins, USMCR (Ret), Col Charles G., “Digger Person, Andy, GI Bill, The—A Game-Changer “Basic Class, 1951; Oct pg 26 Marine,” The: An Odyssey From Okinawa to for Life and Money in Your Pocket; Jun pg 43 __, In Call With the Commandant: General Canberra; Mar pg 26 Pool-Camp, Suzanne and Camp, Dick, James F. Amos and the Corps; Mar pg 18 James, Cpl Rashaun X., Marine Corps Makes Eyewitnesses to Murder: Marines With Camp, Dick, Eyewitness to Combat: Firefight Aviation History With Intercontinental Flight; Lincoln to the End; Apr pg 44 at New Ubaydi, Iraq, November 2005 (Part I); Jul pg 29 ____, Francis Maria Scala—‘Leader of the Nov pg 44 Jordan, USMC (Ret), Maj Robert T., Telling the Band” (sidebar); Jan pg 16 ____, Eyewitness to Combat: Firefight at Marine Corps Story in Wartime: “War Shots”; _, Henry C. Cochrane Marine on the New Ubaydi, Iraq, November 2005 (Part II); Apr pg 62 Scene (sidebar); Jan pg 15 Dec pg 30 Karcher, Mary D., “Walk Through Time, A”: ___, History of the Band to the End of the Cary, Emily Pritchard, Virginia International Five Decades of the Women Marines Civil War (sidebar); Jan pg 17 Tattoo, The; Jul pg 24 Association; Feb pg 36 ___, Lincoln and the Marines at Gettysburg; Comerford, USN, MC1(AW) Tim, Suspension Keene, R. R., “Ballad of the Green Berets”? Jan pg 14 Training: TRX—Taking Fitness to the Next The Corps Had “The Marine’s Ballad”; ___, Major Richard Strader Collum Level; Sep pg 52 Apr pg 40 Marine on the Scene (sidebar); Apr pg 45 Cormier, Capt Clifton J., Iceland 1941; Jul pg 36 ___, Because Marines Never Forget (Part I); ____, “They Have Killed Papa Dead! They Darack, Ed, Everyday Warfighters, The: “Oct pg 40 Have Killed Papa Dead!” (sidebar); Apr pg 46 Indefatigable Mission Fidelity in the Modern ____, Because Marines Never Forget (Part II); Rothwell, (Ret), Col Richard B., Last of the Toil of War; Jul pg 32 Nov Pe 32 First Club, The: Who'll Make That Poignant Darling, LtCol Robert J., September 11, 2001: ___, Combat Shooting Team Tops at British and Final Toast?; Aug pg 18 Morning Unlike Any Other, A; Sep pg 18 “Match; Jan pg 46 Rupert, Jack, It’s Tough to be a Deputy in Dietz, LCpl Sarah, Bridgeport Keeps Marines in the Fight; Sep pg 40 __, “Marine Anthology, A: In the Spirit of the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Department “Semper Fidelis”; Mar pg 58 (sidebar); Apr pg 21 ___, “Red Hats” Train Marines for Any Climb “and Place (sidebar); Sep pg 42 ____, Marine Assumes Post as Senior Enlisted ___, Sheriff Simon L. Leis Jr. Stilla Advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs; "Marine; Apr pg 18 Duffin, Allan T., Quiet Waters, Healing Dec pg 26 Smith-Christmas, Kenneth L., “Father of Warriors: How Fly-Fishing Helps Wounded Combat Vets Recuperate; Dec pg 46 ____, Ready to Assist in Shaping Total Force Dive-Bombing”?, The; May pg 48 (sidebar); Dec pg 27 __, National Museum of the Marine Corps’ LEATHERNECK DECEMBER 2011 www.mca-marines.org/leatherneck Curtiss Jenny, The (sidebar); May pg 51 Ron Zaczek: The Crew Chief Who Couldn’t The Ist ANGLICO Story (Leatherneck Book Steele, (Ret), MajGen O. K., Corps’ First Winter Forget the Marines on Hill 665 (Part I); Browser); May pg 65 at Pickel Meadow, 1951-52, The; Sep pg 32 Jul pg 18 “Marine Anthology. A: In the Spirit of Semper Stibbens, Steve, October 13, 1942: A Personal Ron Zaczek: The Crew Chief Who Couldn't Fidelis”; Mar pg 58 Date of Infamy for a Marine Private; Aug pg 22 Forget the Marines on Hill 665 (Part II); Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of Theill, Coral Anika, African-American Aug pg 46 American Power; Feb pg 56 Marines Timeline (sidebar); Feb pg 20 Shaping the Battle: Marine General, Brits On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning , Commandant of the Marine Corps on Reflect on Coalition Air Efforts (2d MAW to Kill in War and Society; Oct pg 64 Post-Traumatic Stress and Traumatic Brain (Fwd), Camp Leatherneck); Nov pg 18 Osama bin Laden; Jun pg 49 Injury, The; Oct pg 18 Those Unsung Heroes and Their R4Ds: Out of the Depths: A Survivor’s Story of the ___, Invisible Battle Scars: Confronting the The Len Mapes Story; Jun pg 28 Sinking of the USS /ndianapolis; Jan pg 50 Stigma of PTS and TBI; Oct pg 20 Peleliu File; Dec pg 57 ____, Montford Point Marines: Honoring and BAND Preparing for Victory: Thomas Holcomb and Preserving Their Legacy; Feb pg 18 the Making of the Modern Marine Corps, ____, Unit Cohesion: Vital Psychological Band of America’s Few: Former Marine 1936-1943; Jun pg 48 Protection (sidebar); Oct pg 22 Musicians Take an Encore; Oct pg 58 Profession, The: A Thriller; Jul pg 44 Thompson, Warren E., Marine Harriers Over Francis Maria Scala—‘Leader of the Band” Semper Cool: One Marine’s Fond Memories of Afghanistan: The Early Days; May pg 40 (sidebar); Jan pg 16 Vietnam; May pg 65 Vasgerdsian, Ed, Coordinating Council History of the Band to the End of the Civil War Six Essential Elements of Leadership: Marine Provides Support to Marine Organizations (sidebar); Jan pg 17 Corps Wisdom of a Medal of Honor Recipient; (sidebar); Feb pg 34 Marine Band Embarks on Fall Tour of Dec pg 56 ___, Marine Veterans Pull Together to Southeastern United States; Sep pg 60 Smedley D. Butler, USMC: A Biography; Organize Yountville Picnic; Feb pg 32 Marine Band Performs Tribute Concert to Aug pg 58 Wells, Jack, CAP Echo 4: A Different Look at Iwo Jima Flag Raisers; May pg 62 Taking on the Burden of History: Presuming to Tet 1968; Jan pg 20 Virginia International Tattoo, The: A Grand be a United States Marine (Leatherneck Book West, Bing, Bravest Warrior, The; Apr pg 30 Patriotic Spectacle; Jul pg 24 Browser); Mar pg 56 Wilt, Nancy and Karcher, Mary, Hats Off to Time to Betray, A: The Astounding Double Women Marines!; Feb pg 43 BOOKS REVIEWED Life of a CIA Agent Inside the Revolutionary Winterer, Gretchen and Bowers, Carrie, Guards of Iran; Jan pg 50 National Museum of the Marine Corps 24 Hours Inside the President’s Bunker: War Shots; Apr pg 62 Remembers September 11, 2001, The; 9-11-01, The White House; Sep pg 62 What It Is Like to Go to War; Oct pg 73 Sep pg 44 Action Around the World With the Fighting Wrong War, The: Grit, Strategy, and the Way Yakes, Chris, Power and Robotics: Helping the Leathernecks (Leatherneck Book Browser); Out of Afghanistan; Apr pg 64 Corps Break the Logistical Tether; Oct pg 55 Nov pg 68 Battle for the City of the Dead: In the Shadow COMMANDANT of the Golden Dome, Najaf, August 2004; AVIATION May pg 65 All Marine Message 047/10: “Repeal of Don’t 3d MAW Never Far From the Fight, Ready for Black Sheep: The Life of Pappy Boyington; Ask, Don’t Tell”; Feb pg 11 Any Mission (Camp Leatherneck); Mar pg 15 Sep pg 64 CMC Calls Corps’ Future “Frugal”; Apr pg 37 26th MEU Aircraft Strike Libya and Rescue Candle in the Chapel, A (Leatherneck Book CMC, Sergeant Major Visit Cherry Point; Downed Pilot; May pg 46 Browser); Feb pg 57 Oct pg 49 Aircraft Maintainers Help Marine Jets Pressure Chance in Hell, A: The Men Who Triumphed Commandant Helps to Dedicate New Fisher Insurgents (VMA-513, Kandahar Airfield); Over Iraq’s Deadliest City and Turned the Tide House at Camp Lejeune; May pg 63 Sep pg 15 of War; Mar pg 56 Commandant’s Marine Corps Birthday Air-Ground Leathernecks Join Forces to Corps Vet: More Than a Secret Mission ... Message, The: 236 Years of Excellence; Disrupt Drug, Weapons Smuggling (RCT-1 & A Lifelong Tour of Duty (Leatherneck Book Nov pg 10 2d MAW (Fwd), Helmand province); Jul pg 10 Browser); Oct pg 64 Corps and the Way Ahead, The: General Corps’ UAVs Receive New Expeditionary David & Lee Roy: A Vietnam Story; Sep pg 63 James F. Amos Reviews His First Year as Home (VMU-3, Camp Leatherneck); Sep pg 12 Duty, Honor & Privilege: The Making of a Commandant and Outlines the Future; Dropping the “Velvet Hammer” (AH-1W Super Marine Mustang (Leatherneck Book Browser); Nov pg 12 Cobras, Wazirabad); Sep pg 12 May pg 65 In Call With the Commandant: General James Expeditionary Airfield Dismantled, Collected Equipping the Corps, 1892-1937: Vol. 1: F. Amos and the Corps; Mar pg 18 All in Record Time (MWSS-272 & 2d MAW Web Gear, Weapons and Headgear; Apr pg 66 Under Wraps: The Home of the Commandants; (Fwd), Camp Bastion); Jul pg 11 Every Day of the Civil War: A Chronological Jun pg 32 F-35B Lightning II Making Progress; Mar pg 44 Encyclopedia (Leatherneck Book Browser); “Father of Dive-Bombing”?, The (Lawson H. May pg 70 CORPS ALBUM “Sandy” Sanderson); May pg 48 From Hilltop to Mountaintop: The Life & First Vertical Landing at Sea for Joint Strike Legacy of One Iwo Jima Flag Raiser; Mar pg 65 Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Fighter; Dec pg 36 George W. Hamilton, USMC: America’s Center, Pickel Meadow, 1960-61; Dec pg 58 KC-130J Harvest Hawk: Corps Teaches Old Greatest World War I Hero; Nov pg 68 Plane New Tricks (VMGR-352, Camp Dwyer, Give Me Tomvurrow: The Korean War’s Greatest EDUCATION Afghanistan); Jun pg 18 Untold Story—The Epic Stand of the Marines Marine Corps Aviation First, A: Sea Stallion of George Company; Feb pg 56 Citadel, The: The Military College of South Refuels Super Cobras (HMH-463, Patrol Base Global Warrior: Averting WW III; Nov pg 70 Carolina; Jan pg 32 Wolfpack); Nov pg 22 Grab Their Belts to Fight Them: The Viet Dakota Meyer Challenges U.S. to Match His Marine Corps Makes Aviation History With Cong’s Big-Unit War Against the U.S., $1 Million Pledge for Scholarships; Dec pg 22 Intercontinental Flight (VMM-266, 26th MEU); 1965-1966; Oct pg 71 GI Bill, The—A Game-Changer for Life and Jul pg 29 Hearts of Iron: The Epic Struggle of the Money in Your Pocket; Jun pg 43 Marine Harriers Over Afghanistan: The Early Ist Marine Division Flame Tank Platoon, Johns Hopkins University Students Link Days (VMA-513, MCAS Yuma, Ariz.); Korean War, 1950-1953; Sep pg 63 Academics With Marine Experience; Jul pg 46 May pg 40 Hesitation Kills: A Female Marine Officer’s Leadership Scholar Program Expedites Marines Exploit Expanding Array of Combat Experience in Iraq; Dec pg 56 Marines’ College Admission; Jul pg 47 Unmanned Aircraft Systems; May pg 29 It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine’s Marine Corps Forces Africa Graduates National Museum of the Marine Corps’ Curtiss Path to Peace; Aug pg 59 Intelligence Officers; Mar pg 45 Jenny, The (sidebar); May pg 51 Last Men Out: The True Story of America’s Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation, The: October 13, 1942: A Personal Date of Infamy Heroic Final Hours in Vietnam; May pg 64 “Honoring Marines by Educating Their for a Marine Private; Aug pg 22 Lightning From the Sky, Thunder From the Sea: Children”; Jan pg 26 www.mca-marines.org/leatherneck DECEMBER 2011 LEATHERNECK 2011 ANNUAL REFERENCE INDEX New Beginnings: A School Where Failure Is OPERATIONS DESERT SHIELD/ Engineers Improve Security While Under Fire Not an Option; May pg 53 DESERT STORM in Sangin (Co C, CLB-2, Ist MLG (Fwd), Scholarship Honors the Corps’ First African- FOB Robinson); Feb pg 14 American Officer; Apr pg 61 Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm Engineers Improve Southern Helmand for Wounded Marine Careers Foundation, The: Remembered in New National Museum of the Afghans, Leathernecks (CLB-3, Ist MLG Checking In; Aug pg 36 Marine Corps Exhibit; Jan pg 13 (Fwd), COP Rankel); Mar pg 14 Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm; Everyday Warfighters, The: Indefatigable HISTORY Jan pg 28, Feb pg 28 Mission Fidelity in the Modern Toil of War; Jul pg 32 “Follow Me” Division Commemorates 70 Years THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM Expeditionary Airfield Dismantled, Collected— of Service (2dMarDiv, MCB Camp Lejeune, All in Record Time (MWSS-272 & 2d MAW N.C.); Apr pg 36 Citadel Cadets in the War on Terrorism, (Fwd), Camp Bastion); Jul pg 11 Francis Maria Scala—‘Leader of the Band” The (sidebar); Jan pg 37 FET Works With Local Officials to Improve, (sidebar); Jan pg 16 Marines End Flood Relief Operations (15th & Rebuild Now Zad (RCT-8, FET, Now Zad, Giants of the Corps: Herman Hanneken 26th MEUs, Sindh province, Pakistan); Jan pg 8 Helmand province); Jun pg 19 A Very Deadly Marine; Nov pg 50 National Museum of the Marine Corps First Female Advisor Prepares for Afghanistan Henry C. Cochrane—Marine on the Scene Remembers September 11, 2001, The; Deployment; Feb pg 46 (sidebar); Jan pg 15 Sep pg 44 First Tanks Arrive in Afghanistan, Boresighted History of the Band to the End of the Civil War September 11, 2001: A Morning Unlike Any and Battle Ready (Co D, Ist Tanks, IstMarDiv (sidebar); Jan pg 17 Other; Sep pg 18 (Fwd), Camp Leatherneck); Apr pg 15 Lincoln and the Marines at Gettysburg; Website Offers Event Database for 10th For CLB-6 Marines in Sangin Area It’s Jan pg 14 Anniversary of Sept. 11 Events; Sep pg 60 Realignment and Retrograde; Nov pg 19 Garmsir Sees Infrastructural Growth as OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM WORLD WAR | Counterinsurgency Expands (C/1/3, Garmsir (AFGHANISTAN) District); Oct pg 15 No Marine Artillery for WW I Leathernecks; Gen Allen Makes First Command Visit to Oct pg 32 1/6 Comm Marines Overcome Adverse Terrain, Marjah as ISAF Commander (Camp Dwyer, Remembrance, A: Belleau Wood and General Conditions (Patrol Base Alcatraz); Dec pg 10 Helmand province); Oct pg 12 Lemuel C. Shepherd; Jun pg 46 3d MAW Never Far From the Fight, Ready for Gettin’ Dirty With Company D Tankers (Ist Any Mission (Camp Leatherneck); Mar pg 15 Tank Bn, RCT-1, 2dMarDiv (Fwd), COP Afghan Army Logistics Unit Begins WORLD WAR II Ouellette); Jul pg 13 Independent Operations (Embedded African-American Marines Timeline (sidebar); Partnering Team, CLB-3, Ist MLG (Fwd), Harvest Moon Targets Heart of Drug Trade Feb pg 20 Camp Shorabak); Feb pg 16 Region (RCT-1, Task Force Leatherneck, Because Marines Never Forget (Part 1); Afghan National Army Increases Autonomy at Camp Dwyer); Aug pg 12 Oct pg 40 Delaram (FOB Delaram 1); May pg 13 Helmand Marines Loosen Reins on Local Because Marines Never Forget (Part II); Afghan Soldiers, U.S. Marines Help Farmers Soldiers (Garmsir District); Sep pg 16 Nov pg 32 With Food Delivery (1/23, Camp Leatherneck); Hornets, Harriers Team for Tandem Air Ops December 1941; Dec pg 40 Nov pg 20 (VMFA-122 & VMA-513, Kandahar Airfield); Iceland 1941; Jul pg 36 Aircraft Maintainers Help Marine Jets Pressure Aug pg 16 Last of the First Club, The: Who'll Make That Insurgents (VMA-513, Kandahar Airfield); In and Out, RCT-8 Team Expedites Movement Poignant and Final Toast?; Aug pg 18 Sep pg 15 Across Battlespace (LNO, RCT-8); May pg 16 Marine Band Performs Tribute Concert to Iwo Airdrops Save Lives (FOB Edinburgh); KC-130J Harvest Hawk: Corps Teaches Old Jima Flag Raisers; May pg 62 Dec pg 15 Plane New Tricks (VMGR-352, Camp Dwyer); Montford Point Marines: Honoring and Air-Ground Leathernecks Join Forces to Jun pg 18 Preserving Their Legacy; Feb pg 18 Disrupt Drug, Weapons Smuggling (RCT-1 & Lance Corporal Survives Two IEDs, Finds a October 13, 1942: A Personal Date of Infamy 2d MAW (Fwd), Helmand province); Jul pg 10 New Way to Stay in the Fight (COP Shukvani); for a Marine Private; Aug pg 22 Ballistic Underwear: Corps’ New Skivvies in Aug pg 13 Okinawa Memorial Day Brings Together Afghanistan (Helmand province); Sep pg 15 Leatherneck-Built Structure Will Secure Area for ANA (Co C, CLB-2, Ist MLG (Fwd), Japanese and Americans to Honor Fallen; Befriending Villagers Proves Useful in Hunting Sep pg 31 Elusive Taliban (A/1/8, Musa Qal’eh); Feb pg 12 Patrol Base Demazong); Jan pg 12 Those Unsung Heroes and Their R4Ds: Bravest Warrior, The; Apr pg 30 Marine Artillery in Afghanistan: 1/11 The Len Mapes Story; Jun pg 28 Breaking the Taliban Grip on Afghans (1/3/5, Every Marine an Infantryman and a Two Tours in Hell; Mar pg 32 FOB Jackson); Feb pg 12 Cannoneer; Mar pg 38 Veterans Reenact Iwo Jima Flag Raising; “Charlie” Battery Is Ever-Ready for Fast, Marine Corps Aviation First, A: Sea Stallion Feb pg 47 Accurate Fire Support (C/1/12, Fire Base Refuels Super Cobras (HMM-463, Patrol Base Wolfpack); Nov pg 22 Fiddlers Green); Dec pg 10 KOREAN WAR CLB-3 Continues Supporting, Improving Marine, Mullah Partnership Key in Counterinsurgency Fight (1/3, Garmsir Southern Helmand (CLB-3, 2d MLG (Fwd), Two Tours in Hell; Mar pg 32 District); Oct pg 16 Haji Hanif Khan); May pg 15 Marines Conduct Clearing Operation Boosting VIETNAM WAR Cobra Detachment Provides Tactical Advantage Northern Marjah Security (2/9); Jan pg 8 (HMLA-169, 3d MAW (Fwd), FOB Dwyer); “Marines Do Not Bleed” (CLB-3, 2d MLG Cam Sa Raid—aka “The August 4 Caper”; Feb pg 13 May pg 24 Convoy Commander Says UAVs Saved His Life (Fwd), Helmand province); May pg 12 CAP Echo 4: A Different Look at Tet 1968; (VMU-3, Camp Leatherneck); Dec pg 14 Marines Drive Insurgents out of Village Jan pg 20 Corps Has New Dog in Fight: Labradors (E/2/1, Operation Godfather, Durzay, Helmand province); Apr pg 14 “Digger Marine,” The: An Odyssey From Unleashed to Sniff Out IEDs (2/8, Camp Okinawa to Canberra; Mar pg 26 Dwyer); Jul pg 12 Marines End Flood Relief Operations (15th & 26th MEUs, Sindh province, Pakistan); Jan pg 8 From Skid Row to the Corps, “Machete Eddie” Corps’ UAVs Receive New Expeditionary Marines Exploit Expanding Array of McCourt Becomes a “Go-To” Warrior; Home (VMU-3, Camp Leatherneck); Sep pg 12 Aug pg 28 Corpsman Trains Afghan Medics (Lashkar Unmanned Aircraft Systems; May pg 29 Ron Zaczek: The Crew Chief Who Couldn’t Gah); Nov pg 23 Marines Fight Through Enemy Ambush to Forget the Marines on Hill 665 (Part 1); “Dark Horse” Marines of I/3/5 “Draw Lines in Build New Patrol Base; Mar pg 12 Jul pg 18 the Sand” (3d Pit, 1/3/5, Sangin District); Marines Find Moving the Bazaar Not an Ron Zaczek: The Crew Chief Who Couldn't Mar pg 13 Unpopular Decision (1/25, Camp Leatherneck); Forget the Marines on Hill 665 (Part II); Dropping the “Velvet Hammer” (Co C, 2d LAR Dec pg 14 Aug pg 46 Bn, 2dMarDiv (Fwd), Wazirabad); Sep pg 12 Marines: Insurgency Is Weakening (2/9, Operation Integrity, Northern Marjah); Apr pg 12 LEATHERNECK DECEMBER 2011 www.mca-marines.org/leatherneck Marines, Mission Give Afghan Forces Ability DOD Extends TRICARE Coverage to Young National Museum of the Marine Corps to Add to Take Control of Security (G/2/3, Patrol Adults Up to Age 25; Mar pg 60 Hotel and Convention Center; Jun pg 50 Base Jaker); Jul pg 10 DOD Launches Program for Spouses to Expand New Bachelor Enlisted Quarters Unveiled at Marines, Sailors Win Hearts and Minds With Their Career Opportunities; Sep pg 61 Cherry Point; Jun pg 50 Community Health Care (BLT 3/8, 26th MEU, DOD to Remove SSNs From ID Cards; Reshaping America’s Expeditionary Force in RCT-8); May pg 16 Aug pg 54 Readiness Report of the 2010 Marine Corps Marines Say Afghan Border Police Becoming eMarine Website Launches, Connects Marines Force Structure Review; May pg 18 Self-Sufficient (3d LAR, IstMarDiv (Fwd), and Families; Nov pg 72 Snapshot ... of a Recruiter’s World, A; Combat Outpost Castle, Helmand province); First Lady Speaks to Quantico Graduates; Jul pg 14 Apr pg 14 Aug pg 54 Marines Train Infantry Battalion From GI Bill, The—A Game-Changer for Life and OVERSEAS Republic of Georgia; Apr pg 38 Money in Your Pocket; Jun pg 43 Field Maneuvers Build Relationships, Increase Marines Visit With Chinese Military, Other Invisible Battle Scars: Confronting the Stigma Readiness for U.S., Japan; Mar pg 42 Officials in Hong Kong; Mar pg 44 of PTS and TBI; Oct pg 20 In the DIRT: Marine Veterans Display MARSOC: The Special Operations Capabilities Joining Forces Initiative Kicks Off at “Extreme Humanitarianism”; Oct pg 48 Specialists of Marine Special Operations Camp Lejeune; Jul pg 46 Japan-based Units Close Out Talisman Sabre Support Group; Aug pg 32 Marine Protects Family During Tornado; Local 2011—Australia; Oct pg 51 Mechanic Keeps Cobras, Hueys Ready for Marines Aid Damaged Community; Aug pg 43 Marine Corps Forces Africa Graduates Takeoff (MALS-169); May pg 14 Marine Spouse Named 2011 Military Spouse of Intelligence Officers; Mar pg 45 “New England’s Own” Deploys, Ready for the Year; Aug pg 54 Marines and Romanian Troops Partner in Black Operations in Afghanistan (1/25, Camp Marines “Get Connected”: Marine Corps Sea Rotational Force 11; Jul pg 31 Leatherneck); Nov pg 20 Recruiting Command Launches New Marines Arrive in Tonga; Nov pg 43 New “Strategic” Combat Correspondent in Facebook Application; Feb pg 50 Marines End Flood Relief Operations (15th & Afghanistan, The; Sep ng 48 Museums Offer Free Admission to Military 26th MEUs, Sindh province, Pakistan); Jan pg 8 Operation Black Sand Blasts the Insurgency to Personnel, Families; Aug pg 55 Marines Stay Mission Ready With Tactical Dust (2d CEB, Shukvani); Oct pg 13 New Beginnings: A School Where Failure Is Decision Games (Africa Partnership Station Operation Black Tip Puts Enemy on the Run, Not an Option; May pg 53 2011, Port Gentil, Gabon); Aug pg 44 Yields Detainees, Weapons Cache (1/3/3, Trek New Single “Welcome Me Home” Benefits Marines Train Infantry Battalion From Nawa); Jan pg 10 Military Families; Jan pg 53 Republic of Georgia (Germany); Apr pg 38 Paving the Way: CLB-3 Engineers Improve Pendleton Children Play With the Pros at Free Operation Tomodachi: Marines Respond to Road in Southern Afghanistan (Eng Co, CLB-3, Football Camp; Oct pg 62 Disaster in Japan; May pg 34 Ist MLG (Fwd), PB Amir); Feb pg 15 Quiet Waters, Healing Warriors: How U.S., 21 Other Nations Begin Tradewinds 2011 Radio Battalion Helps ANGLICO Intercept Fly-Fishing Helps Wounded Combat Vets in West Indies; May pg 39 Insurgents (2d Radio Bn, Task Force Belleau Recuperate; Dec pg 46 U.S. Marines Teach Sniper Tactics During Wood, Camp Leatherneck); Aug pg 15 Recruiting Station Raleigh Wife Named Marine Training Exercise Deployment (Sattahip Naval Roadwork Leads Deep Into Marjah, Allows Spouse of the Year (Bianca Strzalkowski); Base, Thailand); Aug pg 44 Access for Citizens and Military (8th ESB, May pg 62 2d MLG (Fwd), Camp Hanson); Jun pg 20 Taylor Dahl-Sims Named Corps’ Military Child PERSONALITIES Safar Bazaar’s “Little Mayor” Connects With of the Year; Jun pg 50 Afghans (C/1!/3, Garmsir District); Aug pg 14 Teen Cancer Patient Named “Honorary Young Armstrong, LCpl Andrew J. (Lance Corporal Shaping the Battle: Marine General, Brits Marine”; May pg 36 Survives Two IEDs, Finds a New Way to Stay Reflect on Coalition Air Efforts (2d MAW in the Fight); Aug pg 13 (Fwd), Camp Leatherneck); Nov pg 18 MEDALS AND DECORATIONS Barrett, SgtMaj Micheal (17th Sergeant Major Sky Is No Limit for Landing Support Platoon of the Marine Corps Assumes Post This (Landing Support Pit, H&S Co, CLB-3, In the Highest Tradition; Jan pg 39, Feb pg 52, Month); Jun pg 36 Mar pg 52, Apr pg 50, May pg 58, Jun pg 40, Ist MLG (Fwd), Camp Dwyer); Apr pg 16 Battaglia, SgtMaj Bryan B. (Marine Assumes Jul pg 41, Aug pg 50, Sep pg 56, Oct pg 52, Spirit of America: Connecting Americans With Post as Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Nov pg 54, Dec pg 54 the Marines and the Mission; Dec pg 18 Chairman of the Joint Chiefs); Dec pg 26 Marines With Mild Brain Injury May Qualify Task Force Leatherneck Changes Hands ____, (Ready to Assist in Shaping Total Force) for Purple Heart; Jul pg 30 (2dMarDiv (Fwd)); May pg 12 (sidebar); Dec pg 27 “Ugly Angels” Provide Air Support, Ground MISCELLANEOUS Benson, Cpl Graham J. (Leatherneck, Troops Thwart Insurgents (HMH-362, Marine Corps Association Honor Combat 3d MAW (Fwd) & C/1/8, Jahazi); Jan pg 11 2010 Marine Corps Association Annual Report Correspondents); Sep pg 28 Versatile Aircraft Wing Marines Successfully to Members; March (insert) Branch, Frederick C. (Scholarship Honors the Complete Convoy (MWSS-373); May pg 14 Annual Test No Longer Required (MCCS Corps’ First African-American Officer); Yo Vato! Texas “Carlos” Company Success in GMS); Dec pg 39 Apr pg 61 Helmand (C/1/23, Camp Leatherneck); DSTRESS Hotline Offers Counseling for Cahill, Australian Army (Ret), COL Ivan (The Oct pg 12 Marines by Marines; Apr pg 60 “Digger Marine”: An Odyssey From Okinawa Events Planned to Commemorate 70th to Canberra); Mar pg 26 OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM Anniversary of Pearl Harbor; Dec pg 60 Collum, Maj Richard Strader (Marine on the Fleet Week Participants Visit Children at San Scene); Apr pg 45 Eyewitness to Combat: Firefight at Francisco General Hospital; Dec pg 61 DeVere, Pvt Carl “Bud” (October 13, 1942: A New Ubaydi, Iraq, November 2005; Nov pg 44 Force Reconnaissance: The Commander’s Eyes Personal Date of Infamy for a Marine Private); Eyewitness to Combat: Firefight at and Ears; Nov pg 24 Aug pg 22 New Ubaydi, Iraq, November 2005; Dec pg 30 Fuel the Force Provides Business for Local Gill, Sgt James (There Are No Alivis); Farmers, Fuel for Military; Oct pg 51 Jun pg 22 MARINE FAMILY Hurricane Irene: No Problem for Marine Greenway, John (Cyclists Make 430-Mile Trek, BAH Freeze: Barracks Upgrades Ease Tankers; Dec pg 36 Raise $250,000 for Fund); Jan pg 52 Transition; Nov pg 43 Invisible Battle Scars: Confronting the Stigma From the Ranks: The Corps’ Sth Special Basic Brothers in Arms: Marine Siblings Deploy of PTS and TBI; Oct pg 20 Class, 1951; Oct pg 26 Together; Feb pg 46 Marine Corps Museum Chapel Wins “Project Hanneken, Herman (Giants of the Corps: Camp Pendleton’s New Navy Hospital on the of the Year” Award; Mar pg 60 Herman Hanneken—A Very Deadly Marine); Cutting Edge of Technology; Mar pg 61 Marines, Sailors Gear Up for Fleet Week San Nov pg 50 Commandant Helps to Dedicate New Fisher Francisco 2011; Oct pg 51 Hatch, Maj Norm (Telling the Marine Corps House at Camp Lejeune; May pg 63 Medically Discharged Recruit Shows Grit, Story in Wartime: “War Shots”); Apr pg 62 Couple (Joe and Maureen Williams) Celebrates Returns to Earn Title; Feb pg 47 Jones, Charles (Telling the Marine Corps Story 50 Years at MCAS; Dec pg 60 Meet the USMC in St. Louis; Feb pg 58 in Wartime: “War Shots”); Apr pg 62 DECEMBER 2011 LEATHERNECK www.mca-marines.org/leatherneck 2011 ANNUAL REFERENCE INDEX Kent, Elizabeth (“Liz” Kent—The Sergeant ____, (Ron Zaczek: The Crew Chief Who Marines Exploit Expanding Array of Major’s Secret Weapon) (sidebar); Jun pg 14 Couldn’t Forget the Marines on Hili 665, Unmanned Aircraft Systems; May pg 29 Kent, SgtMaj Carlton (Sergeant Major of the Part Il); Aug pg 46 Marines Train Infantry Battalion From Marine Corps Carlton Kent); Jun pg 10 Republic of Georgia (Germany); Apr pg 38 Lay, SSgt Bob (“Ballad of the Green Berets?” POSTS OF THE CORPS Massive Mock City Training Complex Prepares The Corps Had “The Marine’s Ballad”); Marines for War (MCAGCC Twentynine Marine Corps Security Force Battalion: Kings Apr pg 40 Palms, Calif.); Apr pg 54 Bay (Ga.)—Guarding Nuclear Subs and Their Leis Jr., Sheriff Simon L. (Still a Marine); Mission Readiness Exercise Includes Weapons: Serious Business; Nov pg 62 Apr pg 18 Humanitarian Assistance Training (Onslow (MCMWTC) Bridgeport Keeps Marines in the Lucas, Sgt Zachary (Crew Chief’s Invention Beach, MCB Camp Lejeune, N.C.); May pg 38 Fight; Sep pg 40 Gains Corpswide Attention); Nov pg 41 Operation War Wagon Pushes Students’ Limits Mapes, Leonard H. “Len” (Those Unsung RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT (WTI, MCAS Yuma, Ariz.); Jan pg 42 Heroes and Their R4Ds”: The Len Mapes (TECHNOLOGY/GEAR) Polishing Perishable Skills: 4th Force Recon Story); Jun pg 28 Marines Train in Hawaii; Mar pg 50 Marines Honored During Cornhuskers’ Season Biodiesel Crop Research Project Introduced at Provisional Security Platoon Practices IED Kickoff; Nov pg 41 MCB Hawaii; Apr pg 39 Spotting Skills (Provisional Security Plt, Ist MCA Honors Leathernecks at Intelligence Camp Pendleton Leathernecks Test New Mortar Supply Bn, 4th MLG, MCB Quantico, Va.); Awards Dinner; Dec pg 37 System; Oct pg 49 Jan pg 44 McCain, (Ret), Col Jinx (Horse Riding Program Crew Chief’s Invention Gains Corpswide “Red Hats” Train Marines for Any Climb and Named to Honor Legacy of Marine); Sep pg 29 Attention; Nov pg 41 Place (sidebar); Sep pg 42 McCool, (Ret), WO Felix (Two Tours in Hell); Marines Stay Mission Ready With Tactical Reserve Marine Battalion Prepares for War Mar pg 32 Decision Games (GCE, SCTF, APS-11); (A/1/23, MCB Camp Pendleton, Calif.); McCourt, Capt Ed (From Skid Row to the Aug pg 44 Apr pg 36 Corps, “Machete Eddie” McCourt Becomes a Power and Robotics: Helping the Corps Break SPMAGTF-12 Completes Training, Supports “Go-To” Warrior); Aug pg 28 the Logistical Tether; Oct pg 55 AFRICOM; Dec pg 38 McGuinness, LCpl Matt (Medically Discharged Thinking Outside the Box: The Marine Corps U.S., 21 Other Nations Begin Tradewinds 2011 Recruit Shows Grit, Returns to Earn Title); Warfighting Laboratory; Sep pg 22 in West Indies; May pg 39 Feb pg 47 U.S. Marines Teach Sniper Tactics During Meyer, Cpl Dakota (The Bravest Warrior); RESERVE Training Exercise Deployment (Sattahip Naval Apr pg 30 Base, Thailand); Aug pg 44 Active Reserve Program Offers Option for __, (In the “Thick of the Fight” He Led the Way: Noncommissioned Officer Earns Marines; May pg 36 UNIFORMS AND EQUIPMENT Marine Forces Reserve Moves Into New Home Nation’s Highest Military Award); Nov pg 54 in New Orleans; Sep pg 31 Ballistic Underwear: Corps’ New Skivvies in Moon, HM3 Roy “Doc” (Vietnam Marines MarineNet Announces Infantry Mortarmen Afghanistan; Sep pg 15 Honor Their Corpsman); Dec pg 52 Courses; May pg 38 Hats Offt oW omen Marines!; Feb pg 43 Naing, Than (Wounded Warrior Shows True Marines Exploit Expanding Array of Grit to Stay in the Fight); Jun pg 36 Unmanned Aircraft Systems; May pg 29 VETERANS O’Brien, LCpl Nicolas (Girls Softball Team Marines Find Moving the Bazaar Not an Honors KIA Marine); Nov pg 72 African-American Marines Timeline (sidebar); Unpopular Decision (1/25, Camp Leatherneck); Pendel, Thomas (“They Have Killed Papa Dead! Feb pg 20 Dec pg 14 They Have Killed Papa Dead!”); Apr pg 46 Band of America’s Few: Former Marine Mission Readiness Exercise Includes Reynolds, BGen Loretta (The Woman in Musicians Take an Encore; Oct pg 58 Humanitarian Assistance Training (Onslow Charge: BGen Loretta Reynolds New CG at Coordinating Council Provides Support to Beach, MCB Camp Lejeune, N.C.); May pg 38 MCRD Parris Island); Sep pg 28 Marine Organizations (sidebar); Feb pg 34 Reserve Marine Battalion Prepares for War Rholes, Cpl Ryan (Leatherneck, Marine Corps “Follow Me” Division Commemorates 70 Years (A/1/23, MCB Camp Pendleton, Calif.); Association Honor Combat Correspondents); of Service (2dMarDiv, MCB Camp Lejeune, Apr pg 36 Sep pg 28 N.C.); Apr pg 36 U.S., 21 Other Nations Begins Tradewinds 2011 Sanderson, Lawson H. “Sandy” (The “Father of GI Bill, The—A Game-Changer for Life and in West Indies; May pg 39 Dive-Bombing”?); May pg 48 Money in Your Pocket; Jun pg 43 Senior Leaders of Our Corps 2012; TRAINING/EXERCISES Hollywood Writers Mentor Veterans’ Writing Nov pg Al(insert) Group; Oct pg 62 Shepherd Jr., Gen Lemuel C. (A Remembrance: 3/3 Completes Training for Afghanistan Horse Riding Program Named to Honor Legacy Belleau Wood and General Lemuel C Deployment; Dec pg 39 of Marine; Sep pg 29 Shepherd Jr.); Jun pg 46 3d Radio Battalion Takes to the Field; Jan pg 43 In the DIRT: Marine Veterans Display Shidwin, SSgt Neville (Marine Protects Family Artillery Marines Conquer Jungle Warfare “Extreme Humanitarianism”; Oct pg 48 During Tornado; Local Marines Aid Damaged Challenge (B/3/12, JWTC, Camp Gonsalves, Marine Band Performs Tribute Concert to Iwo Community); Aug pg 43 Okinawa); Jan pg 44 Jima Flag Raisers; May pg 62 Smith, Gene (The Gene Smith Story: Touring Bridgeport Keeps Marines in the Fight; Marine Veterans Pull Together to Organize With the Golfing Pros); Mar pg 47 Sep pg 40 Yountville Picnic; Feb pg 32 Spooner, USMC (Ret), Maj Richard T. “Rick” Combat Shooting Team Tops at British Match; Montford Point Marines: Honoring and (“A Marine Anthology: In the Spirit of Semper Jan pg 46 Preserving Their Legacy; Feb pg 18 Fidelis”); Mar pg 58 Corps’ First Winter at Pickel Meadow, The, Navy Hospital’s Cycling Program Engages Strzalkowski, Bianca (Marine Spouse Named 1951-52; Sep pg 32 Patients’ Bodies, Minds (Bethesda, Md.); 2011 Military Spouse of the Year); Aug pg 54 DI: Variation of Obstacle Course Tests Recruit’s Feb pg 58 ____, (Recruiting Station Raleigh Wife Named Endurance; Mar pg 43 Old Corps Marines; Nov pg 58 Marine Spouse of the Year); May pg 62 Field Maneuvers Build Relationships, Increase Turning 65: Understanding Options for Ward, Richard (Dog Tags Complete Half- Readiness for U.S., Japan; Mar pg 42 TRICARE and Medicare; Oct pg 63 Century Journey); Jan pg 53 Force Reconnaissance: The Commander’s Eyes VA Launches Vantage Point Blog; Jan pg 45 Wawrzyniak, LtCol Stanley (Leatherneck and Ears; Nov pg 24 Veterans Graves Honored With National Inducted Into Army Ranger Hall of Fame); Japan-based Units Close Out Talisman Sabre Wreath Project; Feb pg 58 Nov pg 40 2011—Australia; Oct pg 51 Veterans Reenact Iwo Jima Flag Raising; Yarbrough, Sgt Bobby J. (Leatherneck, Marine Corps Orders New Water Feb pg 47 Marine Corps Association Honor Combat Qualifications; Mar pg 42 “Walk Through Time, A”: Five Decades of the Correspondents); Sep pg 28 MarineNet Announces Infantry Mortarmen Women Marines Association; Feb pg 36 4 Zaczek, Ron (Ron Zaczek: The Crew Chief Courses; May pg 38 Who Couldn’t Forget the Marines on Hill 665 Marines and Romanian Troops Partner in Black Part I); Jul pg 18 Sea Rotational Force 11; Jul pg 31 |8 0 | LEATHERNECK DECEMBER 2011 www.mca-marines.org/leatherneck ar