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RIP Colonel Ripley and Happy Birthday Marines

Maj. Edward Greeley escorts the casket of Col. John Ripley during his funeral at U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., Nov. 3. The funeral was said to be one of the largest ever held at the academy. Photo by Cpl. Jacob H. Harrer. Today is the 233 rd birthday of the United States Marine Corps and we wish...

Posted to EXCALIBUR (Weblog) by Otto on 11-10-2008
Friday Fun Photos, salutes and sunsets

Click on photos for full view U.S. Marine Majs. Mike Castellano and Brad Weston bid farewell to Marine Lt. Andrew Kinard as he departs a Valentine's Day luncheon at Marine Barracks, Washington, Feb. 16, 2008. Defense Dept. photo by U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. D. Myles Cullen U.S. Navy Capt. Andy Hale...

Posted to EXCALIBUR (Weblog) by Otto on 02-22-2008
Friday Fun Photos: multi-service edition! Click for full images

U.S. Army Sgt. Michael Gonzales, a 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment cavalry scout, patrols through Mosul, Iraq, on a reconnaissance mission Feb. 4, 2008. U.S. Navy photo by Seaman Jon Husman The amphibious assault ship USS Essex and the Military Sealift Command fleet replenishment oiler USNS Pecos steam together...

Posted to EXCALIBUR (Weblog) by Otto on 02-08-2008
new Marine Corps organization: the Center for Irregular Warfare

The above slide is from the IW 101 brief, it sure summarizes many of the challenges of dealing with the Beltway Monster and the Institutions that are desperately holding on to the past Once again, our friends at the Small War’s Journal are ahead of the curve with their link here about the new Marine...

Posted to EXCALIBUR (Weblog) by Otto on 11-25-2007
Happy birthday Marine Corps!

A Marine with third platoon, Company L, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 6, patrols his neighborhood in Fallujah's Nazaal district, Nov. 6. The leathernecks with third platoon moved into a house soon after they arrived in country and began assimilating into the neighborhood...

Posted to EXCALIBUR (Weblog) by Otto on 11-10-2007
Good luck and good hunting to the Marines with the MV-22, we present VMM-263 in Iraq

Posted to EXCALIBUR (Weblog) by Otto on 11-01-2007
General Pace retires, remembers his troops killed in Vietnam

(h/t Small Wars Journal and Matt @ Blackfive ) I’ve written about General Peter Pace here , first Marine Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Apparently, after retiring on 1 October, he went to the Vietnam Memorial Wall and placed cards with notes to the Marines that died under his command in Vietnam...

Posted to EXCALIBUR (Weblog) by Otto on 10-17-2007
General Pete Pace, USMC, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff: Warrior, Leader, Patriot, American. We have the watch.

General Pace retires on 1 October. This site and company is not about politics in any manner or fashion and this is probably the closest I want to get to politics but the fact that General Pace is being forced to retire is wrong and sad on so many levels. General Pace is not responsible for the war in...

Posted to EXCALIBUR (Weblog) by Otto on 09-21-2007
military training Holodeck coming soon

Sharon Weinberger of Wired Magazine tips us to this story in Training and Simulation magazine by Gidget Fuentes about a new training tool being used by the Marines in California. Some extracts: The Infantry Immersive Trainer is being developed in a 30,000-square-foot former tomato-packing warehouse near...

Posted to EXCALIBUR (Weblog) by Otto on 08-31-2007
Honoring Marines and our servicemembers

Our graphic support team is from Ray Simon Art and their website is here . Ray and his guys are from my hometown of Youngstown Ohio and do some incredibly powerful art including tributes to the military , police , firefighters , Christian themes, sports, and more. But the most powerful thing Ray and...

Posted to EXCALIBUR (Weblog) by Otto on 08-23-2007

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