The Marine Corps Reserve: A HistoryU.S. Government Printing Office, 1966 - 311 pages |
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1st Marine active duty aircraft amphibious annual field training Army assigned awarded Brigadier Calif Camp Pendleton Captain civilian Class combat commanding officer Congress Defense Director enlisted fighting Fleet Marine Force FMCR Ground units Headquarters included Infantry Battalion Korea Lejeune Lieutenant Colonel LtCol Maas Major Marine Air Reserve Marine Aviation Marine Corps League Marine Corps Reserve Marine Division Marine Reserve Marine reservists MARTCOM MCROA ment military mission mobilization National Naval Militia Naval Reserve Navy Navy Cross operations Organized Reserve Organized units percent period personnel pilots Platoon Policy Board President Quantico Ready Reserve recruiting reported Reserve Forces Reserve Marines Reserve officers Reserve program Reserve training Reserve units reservists retired Rifle Company rine Corps Secretary Sergeant serve servists squadrons staff strength summer training tion training program Trophy U.S. Marine Corps USMC Photo USMCR Volunteer Reserve VTU's William Women Marines World World War II
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Page 117 - Corps shall be organized, trained, and equipped to provide fleet marine forces of combined arms, together with supporting air components, for service with the fleet in the seizure or defense of advanced naval bases and for the conduct of such land operations as may be essential to the prosecution of a naval campaign.
Page 23 - Reserve, under the same provisions in all respects (except as may be necessary to adapt the said provisions to the Marine Corps) as those contained in this Act or which may hereafter be enacted providing for the Naval Reserve...
Page 163 - Corps: composition; functions (a) The Marine Corps, within the Department of the Navy, shall be so organized as to include not less than three combat divisions and three air wings, and such other land combat, aviation, and other services as may be organic therein.
Page 86 - Covered only by four riflemen, he fought desperately for 4 hours under terrific enemy small-arms fire and repeatedly returned to his own lines to prepare demolition charges and obtain serviced flamethrowers, struggling back, frequently to the rear of hostile emplacements, to wipe out one position after another. On one occasion, he daringly mounted a pillbox to insert the nozzle of his flamethrower through the air vent, killing the occupants and silencing the gun ; on another he grimly charged enemy...
Page 181 - Reserve shall be composed of units or members, or both, who are liable for active duty only in time of war or national emergency declared by the Congress, or when otherwise authorized by law.
Page 4 - SEC. 501. A Women's Auxiliary Reserve is hereby established which shall be a branch of the Naval Reserve and shall be administered under the same provisions in all respects (except as may be necessary to adapt said provisions to the Women's Auxiliary Reserve, or as specifically provided herein) as those contained in this Act or which may hereafter be enacted with respect to the Volunteer Reserve.
Page 23 - August 29, 1916, is hereby abolished, and in lieu thereof there is hereby created and established, as a component part of the United States Marine Corps, a Marine Corps Reserve...
Page 181 - Liable for active duty either in time of war, in time of national emergency declared by the Congress or proclaimed by the President, or when otherwise authorized by law.
Page 163 - The United States Marine Corps, within the Department of the Navy, shall be so organized as to include not less than three combat divisions and three air wings, and such other land combat, aviation, and other services as may be organic therein, and except in time of war or national emergency hereafter declared by the Congress the personnel strength of the Regular Marine Corps shall be maintained at not more than four hundred thousand.
Page 10 - Division, which in a spirited fight took Bouresches and the important strong point of Bois de Belleau, stubbornly defended by a large enemy force, the General commanding the Sixth Army orders that henceforth, in all official papers, the Bois de Belleau shall be named "Bois de la Brigade de Marine.