Commander Marine

Please rescue me! The miracle landing of a two-seat Cessna--with a family of seven aboard--on the deck of USS Midway.
Vietnam; 12/1/2009; 2806 words; ...reporting to the ship's air boss, Commander Veto Jumper. Normally, my division...soldiers, quickly disarmed by Midway's Marine detachment. Initially, the Marines carefully stowed their weapons, but...continued to land at a breakneck pace, the Marines began to simply toss the confiscated...

Marine Commandant Appears to Resist White House on Gay Ban.
Defense & Aerospace Week; 11/18/2009; 735 words; Marine Corps Commandant General James Conway is opposing President...David Nevers, responded with the following statement: "Our Marines are currently engaged in two fights, and our focus should...said Professor Diane Mazur. "There is no faster way for a Commander-in-Chief to lose the respect of those ...

Rockets at Afghan market target French general
AP Online; 11/16/2009; 1502 words; ...had fallen about 200 meters (yards) away. Druart is the commander of the French La Fayette Task Force in Afghanistan. France...Pakistan, said Col. Francis Chanson, head of France's 3rd Marine Infantry Regiment. NATO forces have bases in the Tagab Valley...

Obama said to want revised Afghanistan options
AP Worldstream; 11/16/2009; 1251 words; ...called a one-way highway toward war commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal's recommendations...top U.S. envoy to Kabul and a former commander of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, is...assembled from three Army brigades and a Marine Corps contingent, plus a new head

12 Afghans dead in attack targeting French general
AP Online; 11/16/2009; 1482 words; ...had fallen about 200 meters (yards) away. Druart is the commander of the French Lafayette Task Force in Afghanistan. France...Pakistan, said Col. Francis Chanson, head of France's 3rd Marine Infantry Regiment. NATO forces have bases in the Tagab Valley...