The historic passing of The Sergeant First Class (SFC) Heath Robinson Honoring our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics (PACT) Act that focuses on exposure to toxic Burn Pits would not have been possible without THE advocacy and years of telling the stories of those who need this essential support. Since the PACT Act was passed August 10, 2022, VBA has already taken significant steps to prepare for when claims processing begins January 1, 2023. These efforts include making toxic exposure screening available and retroactively allowing Veterans to apply for benefits regarding more than 20 new presumptive conditions introduced under the PACT Act as of August 10. The below information will assist you as you navigate your PACT ACT claim.
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The MCRA latest PODCAST was focused on the Marine Aerial Refueler Squadron (VMGR) Memorial. This memorial will be built Semper Fidelis Memorial Park at the National Museum of the Marine Corps. The PODCAST featured LtCol Courtney O'Brian, CO - VMGR-352; GySgt Jacob Cobb, USMC (Ret); Sherry Kevianne, she lost her husband on Yanky-72; Jennifer Hermann, she lost her husband on SUMO-41; and Mr. Johnathan Keene who developed the project. Click on the photo below to learn all about the memorial.
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This article was written by Retired Marine Corps General Officers, Amos, Dake and Knutson. This is a powerful wakeup call for those who should have known that Marine aviation is being significantly weakened but did not. The ugly truth is 200 aircraft have been or will be jettisoned from the active force (29% of the inventory): 44 advanced MV-22 tiltrotors (22%) , 30 new AH-1Z attack helicopters (29%), 24 new UH-1Y utility helicopters (29%), 48 new CH-53K state-of-the art heavy lift helicopters (38%), and 54 fifth-generation F-35B fighter/attack jets (28%). To read full aritcle, click here.
Spearheading the project to build the VMGR Memorial and coordinating ALL donations is the Marine Corps Air Transport Association. MCATA has established multiple means to support the building of THIS LONG OVERDUE MEMORIAL. The Association fully supports the building of the Monument, we hope you will consider supporting the effort.
The life story of Brigadier General Michael I. Neil is one that should be celebrated for its heroism and sense of service. He has fought his entire adult life for the rights and freedoms of others at great peril to himself. Not only as a Marine but as a lawyer. Within these pages, you will find his shocking call to action during the Vietnam war and the ultimate message he hopes you will find in your heart to convey to the, still, underappreciated soldiers of the conflict itself. Welcome Home!
Two reduced Marine battalions, the 1st Battalion, 1st Marines with two companies, and 2d Battalion, 5th Marines with three, recaptured Hue's hospital, jail, and provincial headquarters. It would take three more weeks of intense house to house fighting, and nearly a thousand Marines killed and wounded, before the imperial city was secured.
BGen John H. Russell was appointed U.S. High Commissioner and personal representative of the President to the government of Haiti. This nine-year assignment placed this future Commandant in supreme command of both the occupying American force and the Haitian Gendarmerie.
On this date, 28 Marines and 232 seamen lost their lives when the battleship Maine was mysteriously sunk by an explosion in the harbor of Havana, Cuba. Though no definitive evidence linked the Spanish with the sinking, the cry went up, "Remember the Maine!", and by late April the U.S. and Spain were at war.
The first full day of Operation DECKHOUSE VI, which lasted until 3 March, was conducted near Quang Ngai city. The Special Landing Force (BLT 1/4 and HMM-363) accounted for 280 enemy killed.
Four days after the initial landings on Iwo Jima, 1stLt Harold G. Schrier led 40 men from Company E, 2d Battalion, 28th Marines, up Mt. Suribachi to secure the crest and raise the small American flag that battalion commander LtCol Chandler Johnson had given Schrier. Within an hour, the patrol reached the rim of the crater. After a short fire-fight with Japanese defenders emerging from several caves, the small American flag was attached to an iron pipe and raised over the island.
The I Marine Expeditionary Force and coalition forces began a ground assault on Iraqi defenses in the final chapter of Operation Desert Storm. The 1st and 2d Marine Divisions stormed into the teeth of Iraqi defenses while heavily armored allied forces attacked the Iraqi defenses in Iraq from behind. In 100 hours, U.S. and allied forces defeated the Iraqi Army.
Operation Desert Storm ended when the cease- fire declared by President George Bush went into effect. I Marine Expeditionary Force has a strength of more than 92,000 making Operation Desert Storm the largest Marine Corps operation in history. A total of 24 Marines were killed in action during the Gulf War.
Operation Prairie II was begun in Quang Tri province by elements of the 3d Marine Division. During the 46-day search-and-destroy operation which terminated 18 March, 93 Marines and 693 of the enemy were killed.
The 4th Marine Division, as part of the first assault on islands controlled by the Japanese before the start of World War II, captured Namur and eight other islands in the Kwajalein Atoll.
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