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Website. marinecorpstimes .com. Marine Corps Times ( ISSN 1522-0869) is a newspaper serving active, reserve and retired United States Marine Corps personnel and their families, providing news, information and analysis as well as community and lifestyle features, educational supplements, and resource guides. It is published 26 times per year.
The Ole Miss riot of 1962 (September 30 – October 1, 1962), also known as the Battle of Oxford, [ 1] was a violent disturbance that occurred at the University of Mississippi —commonly called Ole Miss—in Oxford, Mississippi, as Segregationist rioters sought to prevent the enrollment of African American applicant James Meredith.
The Gulf Coast of Mississippi suffered near total devastation [ 1][ 11][ 12] from Hurricane Katrina on August 29, with hurricane winds, 28-foot (8.5 m) storm surge, and 55-foot (17 m) sea waves [ 13] pushing casino barges, boats and debris into towns, and leaving 236 people dead, 67 missing, and billions of dollars in damages. [ 14]
August 6, 1975. The Marine Corps Supply Activity, also known as the Quartermaster's Depot, U.S. Marine Corps, is an historic, American office building and warehouse in the Point Breeze neighborhood of South Philadelphia in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. [ 1]
The Marine Corps Reserve is an expeditionary, warfighting organization and primarily designed to augment and reinforce the active duty units of the Marine Corps in their expeditionary role. [ 2] It is the largest command, by assigned personnel, in the U.S. Marine Corps. Marines in the Reserve go through the same training and work in the same ...
Two early morning Sunday runs on the M/V Island Home, which can carry 1,210 persons and up to 76 vehicles, were cancelled. Two later runs at 5 p.m. and 6:15 p.m. on the M/V Martha's Vineyard were ...
Hollis Watkins, who started challenging segregation and racial oppression in his native Mississippi when he was a teenager and toiled alongside civil rights icons including Medgar Evers and Bob ...
Jerald terHorst [ 351] – press secretary (1974) for President Gerald Ford. Craig Thomas [ 352] – U.S. Senator from Wyoming (R) Jason Thomas [ 353] – saved two police officers' lives on September 11 who were trapped in the rubble of the towers. Bernard Trainor [ 354] – author, journalist, NBC military analyst.