United States Marine Corps Reserve and Related Topics

United States Marine Corps

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Maritime land force service branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for conducting expeditionary and amphibious operations through combined arms, implementing its own infantry, artillery, aerial, and special operations forces.

U.S. Marines from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit training

Marines from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit depart USS Tarawa (LHA-1), using both a Landing Craft Utility and CH-53E "Super Stallion" helicopters, during amphibious operations in Kuwait, 2003.

Maj. Samuel Nicholas, first Commandant of the Marine Corps, was nominated to lead the Continental Marines by John Adams in November 1775.

British and U.S. troops garrisoned aboard Hornet and Penguin exchanging small arms musket fire with Tristan da Cuna in the background during the final engagement between British and U.S. forces in the War of 1812

The Final Stand at Bladensburg, Maryland, 24 August 1814

Five USMC privates with fixed bayonets, and their NCO with his sword at the Washington Navy Yard, 1864

Georges Scott, American Marines in Belleau Wood, 1918

Former French Foreign Legion Lieutenant, and U.S. Marine Corps officer Peter J. Ortiz, who served in the European theater, often behind enemy lines

Photograph of the Marine Corps War Memorial, which depicts the second U.S. flag-raising atop Mount Suribachi, on Iwo Jima. The memorial is modeled on Joe Rosenthal's famous Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima.

F4U Corsairs providing close air support to Marines of the 1st Marine Division fighting Chinese forces in North Korea, December 1950

U.S. Marines of "G" Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines in action during Operation Allen Brook in South Vietnam, 1968

Beirut Memorial at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune

U.S. Marines from 1st Battalion, 7th Marines entering a palace in Baghdad in 2003

U.S. Marines dismounting from an Assault Amphibious Vehicle in Djibouti

Organization of the United States Marine Corps

Opha Johnson (far right) in 1946, with Katherine Towle (far left). They are looking at Opha Johnson's uniform being worn by PFC Muriel Albert.

Two of the first female graduates of the School of Infantry-East's Infantry Training Battalion course, 2013

Marine recruits at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego

An illustration of U.S. Marines in various uniform setups. From left to right: A U.S. Marine in a Marine Corps Combat Utility Uniform with full combat load circa 2003, a U.S. Marine in a (full) blue dress uniform, a U.S. Marine officer in a service uniform, and a U.S. Marine general in an evening dress uniform.

The Eagle, Globe and Anchor along with the U.S. flag, the Marine Corps flag and the Commandant's flag

A recruiting poster making use of the "Teufel Hunden" [sic] nickname

Marines firing MEU(SOC) pistols while garrisoned aboard a ship

Marine Amphibious Assault Vehicles emerge from the surf onto the sand of Freshwater Beach, Australia

Marine parachutists jumping from an MV-22 Osprey at 10,000 feet

A Marine Corps F-35B, the vertical-landing version of the F-35 Lightning II multirole fighter landing aboard USS Wasp (LHD-1)

Assault Amphibious Vehicles approaching the well deck of USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6)

A Marine and sailor training with rifles in Iraq

Marines unloading CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters from an Air Force C-5 Galaxy

As of 2017, the USMC has around 182,000 active duty members and some 38,500 personnel in reserve.

United States Marine Corps School of Infantry

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Second stage of initial military training for enlisted United States Marines after recruit training.

Marines in the Marine Corps Combat Instructor Course fire the AT-4 as part of their training to become the instructors of Marine Combat Training and Infantry Training Battalion.

The Infantry Training Battalion's mission is to train and qualify Marines in entry level infantry military occupational specialties to provide the Operating Forces and Marine Forces Reserve with Marines capable of conducting expeditionary combat operations.

Toys for Tots

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An early promotional photo from the Toys for Tots program

InPhonic's CEO and CFO present the results of the company's drive in December 2006

FEMA donations following Hurricane Katrina

Marines with the Blue Angels and National Santa, Tim Connaghan, bring toys for Hurricane Sandy victims on December3 at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. The Marines brought more than $700,000 in toy and book donations on their C-130 "Fat Albert" from donation points in Atlanta and Washington, D.C. The toys were put onto trucks for distribution to families and children in the affected New York/New Jersey area.

Toys for Tots is a program run by the United States Marine Corps Reserve which distributes toys to children whose parents cannot afford to buy them gifts for Christmas.