Behind the line
June 19th, 2009 | Photography | Posted by Sheila
A member of the Marine Corps Silent Drill Platoon cleans the muzzle of a dropped rifle during a performance at the swearing in ceremony for Navy Secretary Ray Mabus at the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, June 18, 2009.
The Phone Call Home
May 31st, 2009 | Photography | Posted by Chris Maddaloni
Staff Sgt. Levar Francois, newly stationed at Qalat, spends some time talking to wife before dinner at FOB Lagman.
DC Osprey
May 29th, 2009 | Photography | Posted by Sheila
Thursday, May 28, 2009 – sometime around noon…I was on an assignment with Off Duty editor Jason Watkins in front of the Lincoln Memorial. Quite a few helicopters had already passed by, but the noise from this one was a lot different. What the heck was an Osprey doing flying over the Mall? And why didn’t anyone turn and look at it?
Last Saturday I was outside near the Marine Corps Memorial when I heard an airplane noise that was far different than the normal passenger jets in the area. A B-52 passed overhead, not in the normal Potomac River flight path…am I going loopy?
I DO!
May 28th, 2009 | Photography | Posted by Sheila
May 22, 2009: At the Naval Academy graduation, a Marine answers his commissioning oath with a boisterous “I DO!”
“At Marine bases all over the globe there are Marines that are waiting for their new lieutenant.”
Lieutenant General Richard S. Kramlich
Director, Marine Corps Staff
USNA Graduation Day
May 23rd, 2009 | Photography | Posted by Sheila
Naval Academy Midshipmen embrace at their commissioning ceremony on Friday, May 22, 2009, in Annapolis, MD.