Secher and the USMC for making a difference with our students and in the world.

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Thomas Miller, USMC (Ret.), former Deputy Chief of Staff for Aviation, U.S. Marine Corps.

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Initially shunning social media, the USMC began allowing it in 2010 and actively using it in 2011.

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Ross is a Blackfeet Indian, veteran of the USMC, and has spent many years working on farms and ranches in the Browning, Montana area.

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Accepting the Keeper of the Flame Award on their behalf was the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Peter Pace USMC .

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Cindy McCain wore jewelled pins reading "USMC" and "Navy" and a flag with a star in honor of her two sons in military service, Jimmy and Jack.

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This however, caused a backlash among Theater Commanders who were now without a Force-Level capability under their Direct Control, forcing the USMC to scramble to reconstitute it.

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With That Said, in the last 10yrs the SS Platoon has firmly moved into the Distant Reconnaissance role as the USMC has been experimenting with expanded capabilities, chiefly Distributed and Enhanced MAGTF Operations.

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That view has been expressed as eloquently and as forcefully by the 30th Commandant of the Marine Corps, General Carl Mundy USMC (Ret.) as by any of his comrades still in uniform or others knowledgeable about what is at stake.

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Upon separating from active duty in the USMC in December 1989 to attend the University of South Carolina as a full-time student, I was introduced to veterans' homelessness through VA's Student Work Study Program where I worked twenty hours a week on behalf of homeless veterans to help them secure food, travel, shelter and life's basic needs.

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