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BLOOMINGTON, Minn. Sgt. Antoni Martin subdued a suspected car thief along Interstate 94 and potentially saved the lives of several motorists April 25.
The Grand Forks, N.D., recruiter drove into a drainage ...
( 5/2/2012 )
LAKEVILLE, Minn. Five recruiters set the example for members of the Delayed Entry Program April 14 by volunteering to package meals for hungry families around the world.
Recruiting Substation Burnsville s...
( 4/16/2012 )
DULUTH, Minn. Eileen Dwyer showed off her trumpet skills in front of fellow high school students while auditioning for the Marine Corps band March 26.
The 20-year-old Duluth East senior played a small ...
( 3/30/2012 )
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. Local YMCA officials named Sgt. Adam Kruse their "Fittest Male" recently after he completed the Eagan Fitness Challenge with the fastest time.
"Physical fitness isn't just ...
( 3/10/2012 )
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. Recruiting Station Twin Cities' senior enlisted Marine relinquished command in a post and relief ceremony at the Fort Snelling Welcome Center March 9.
Sergeant Maj. James Kirkland turned ...
( 3/9/2012 )
MINNEAPOLIS More than 20 Marines with Recruiting Station Twin Cities attended a three-day CrossFit training seminar recently to increase fitness levels within the command.
Instructors discussed Cross...
( 2/13/2012 )
Lafayette, Ind. On Jan. 19 the Marine Corps All-Jazz Band performed at the Purdue Jazz Festival in the Long Center for the Performing Arts, Lafayette, Ind. The participation in the jazz festival was part of the...
( 1/19/2012 )
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. Four Marines saved a few dollars on shaving cream recently by growing mustaches to raise awareness for “Movember,” also known as Men’s Health Month.
The Rochester, Minn., re...
( 1/5/2012 )
ST. JOSEPH Mo. The World Trade Center towers became symbolic for Americans to unite behind after the attack Sept. 11, 2001.
Three hours away in Lancaster, Pa., Terry Weidman was swearing into the United...
( 1/4/2012 )
CHICAGO, Il. Dozens of Marine musicians met in Chicago for the Fiscal Year 2012 Music Leadership Symposium, Dec. 12-14.
The symposium is an opportunity for musicians to discuss future plans, strategies and...
( 12/21/2011 )
CHICAGO The Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif., band conducted what could be its last performance on Dec. 7th, at the Palm Springs Convention Center in Palm Springs, Calif., in fr...
( 12/21/2011 )
BELTON, Mo. Nine members of the Raymore/Peculiar Boy Scouts Troop 32 were presented awards by local Marines for their achievements in the community, Nov. 30.
Staff Sgt.’s Jason Smith and Alejandro Gonzale...
( 11/30/2011 )
MINNEAPOLIS University of Minnesota officials named Sgt. Van Tulmau an honorary Golden Gophers co-captain Nov. 12 in honor of Veteran's Day.
Nearly 50,000 Minnesota and Wisconsin...
( 11/14/2011 )
WICHITA, Kan. The Marine Corps has a long-established set of customs and beliefs dating all the way back to the day the Corps was born in 1775. These beliefs lead to time honored traditions carried out every da...
( 11/10/2011 )
WELCH, Minn. Marines past and present continued time-honored traditions while celebrating the 236th Marine Corps Birthday at Treasure Island Resort Nov. 4.
Nearly 300 p...
( 11/7/2011 )
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. Four Marines stationed in Minnesota flew to the nation’s capital to run the 36th Marine Corps Marathon Oct. 30.
Gunnery Sgts. Michael Soucy and Ro...
( 10/31/2011 )
KANSAS CITY More than 250 people gathered in the crisp morning air, Oct. 29, to run the Platte Purchase Park trail with the goal of showing the members of the United States military that the c...
( 10/29/2011 )
SHAKOPEE, Minn. Six of the world’s top professional skateboarders, BMX bikers and inline skaters performed tricks and aerial acrobatics for hundreds of students Sept. 28 during the 2011 ASA Fall High School Tour....
( 9/29/2011 )
COON RAPIDS, Minn. The Combat Center Show Band stopped at Coon Rapids High School today during their Midwest Fall tour and surprised students with a wall-shaking performance.
The group will make several high...
( 9/27/2011 )
MILWAUKEE Communities across the country breathed a sigh of relief last week as the final pages closed on the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure.
Over the years, since the first BRAC closures, communities ...
( 9/23/2011 )
MINNEAPOLIS Marine recruiter Sgt. Timothy Riffe competed in a pull-up challenge against University of Minnesota gymnast Justine Cherwink at TCF Bank Stadium for the Gophers' Military Appreciation Football Gam...
( 9/19/2011 )
Indianapolis U.S. Marines and members of the delayed entry program, referred to as poolees, ran an initial strength test at a track across from Recruiting Station Indianapolis Sept. 17. The Marines and poolees...
( 9/17/2011 )
MINNEAPOLIS Three lieutenants from Marine Corps Officer Selection Station Twin Cities reaffirmed their oath of office during the Minnesota Gophers halftime show at TCF Bank Stadium Sept. 10.
Second li...
( 9/12/2011 )
LINCOLN, Neb. Recruiting Station Des Moines' Marines with an ongoing partnership with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln football team were ho...
( 9/6/2011 )
MINNEAPOLIS Thousands of Minnesota Twins fans stood watching as 150 men and women walked across the field, stopped and raised their right hand in an oath of enlistment into the United States Marine Corps. Man...
( 9/5/2011 )
ST. CLOUD, Minn. Recruiting Station Twin Cities Commanding Officer Maj. Kenneth Gawronski presented Richard Carlson with the Forrest M. Peterson MVP Award during the All-Marine Wrestling Camp awards ceremony...
( 9/2/2011 )
CAMP RIPLEY, Minn. Weight rooms became obsolete at the All-Marine Wrestling Camp July 25-30 when our nation's elite warriors introduced dozens of Midwest high school students to a new dimension of physical fitness.<...
( 8/4/2011 )
CAMP RIPLEY, Minn. High school students received one-on-one instruction from several of the nation's top athletes at Camp Ripley for an All-Marine Wrestling Camp July 25-30.
More than 120 athletes from Mi...
( 8/3/2011 )
HUDSON, Wis. Marines with Recruiting Substation Woodbury attended Hudson High School's Empty Parking Lot Project ceremony May 27, an event dedicated to honoring all service members, past and present.
( 5/28/2011 )
JOPLIN, Mo. Staff Sgt. Neville Shiwdin struggled to hold closed the door to the closet in which he, his wife and kids took shelter inside his home as a tornado ripped through...
( 5/26/2011 )
Indianapolis, Ind.
On May 14, 2011 Marine Corps enlistees from all over the state of Indiana came to compete in Recruiting Station Indianapolis’ 2011 State Wide Pool function. The State Wide was a physical...
( 5/14/2011 )
CAMP RIPLEY, Minn. Editor's note: This is the third article of a three-part series on the Recruiting Station Twin Cities mini boot camp.
Recruiting Station Twin Cities' mini boot camp concluded May 8 with a...
( 5/12/2011 )
CAMP RIPLEY, Minn. Editor’s note: This is the second article of a three-part series on the Recruiting Station Twin Cities mini boot camp.
Day two of the Recruiting Station Twin Cities mini boot camp kicked ...
( 5/11/2011 )
CAMP RIPLEY, Minn. Editor’s note: This is the first article of a three-part series on the Recruiting Station Twin Cities mini boot camp.
Hundreds of high school and college students received a small taste o...
( 5/9/2011 )
LAFAYETTE, Ind. The United States’ first bridge to be named Medal of Honor Bridge was dedicated in Lafayette, Ind., May 6, 2011 in honor of the medal’s recipients. The bridge is located in the Hoosier Heartland C...
( 5/6/2011 )
IMPERIAL, Mo. Four area high school Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps platoons gathered in the Seckman Senior High School gym April 16 as a U.S. Marine Corps Si...
( 4/21/2011 )
BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. More than 50 family members watched recruiters and Marine applicants conduct motivational exercises April 16 during the Recruiting Substation Bloomington Family Day.
"Our station has...
( 4/16/2011 )
KANSAS CITY, Mo. As it made its debut at the 2011 Chicago Auto Show, the 9th Marine Corps District's new trailer proved its worth as a traveling road show - carrying a modified tactical Humvee, an Indoor Simulated...
( 4/1/2011 )
KANSAS CITY, Mo. The oldest living Marine combat correspondent, died Feb. 13, 2011, at the age of 92.
Irving Schlossenberg was born March 19, 1918 in Baltimore and lived in Overland Park, Kan., where he pas...
( 2/17/2011 )
KANSAS CITY, Mo. The Marine Corps is often seen as one big family, made up of brothers and sisters from around the country.
Sometimes those brothers and sisters are sons, daughters and even grandsons.
...
( 2/4/2011 )
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. Several Minnesota and North Dakota residents found themselves on the infamous Yellow Footprints aboard Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego last week for the 2011 Recruiting Station Twin Cit...
( 1/24/2011 )
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. A few Marine recruiters searched for the nation’s future warriors at the Target Center Dec. 22 while the Minnesota Timberwolves took on the Utah Jazz.
More than 50 men and women took the ...
( 12/27/2010 )
PLATTE CITY, Mo.
At the Platte City library, Oct. 23, hundreds of veterans gathered to reminisce their days of service in combat. The event called Veterans Salute, is hosted annually and invites all war ve...
( 12/22/2010 )
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. Marine applicants received their first taste of Corps life at the University of Minnesota Armory Dec. 18 when recruiters and newly-pinned devil dogs demonstrated the finer points of physical train...
( 12/18/2010 )
CHICAGO The Marine Math and Science Academy, one of the Chicago Public Schools military academies, welcomed Col. Matthew Bonnot, the commanding officer of the 9th Marine Corps District, as the principal f...
( 11/1/2010 )
DES MOINES, Iowa High school students in various areas across Iowa and Nebraska recently got a glimpse of what life is like in the Marine Corps Band – in person.
From Sept. 27-29, seven Marines from the 3...
( 10/7/2010 )
DES MOINES, Iowa “During my time as a recruiter, I want to accomplish three things: get promoted to gunnery sergeant, be a part of the RSS (recruiting substation) of the year and my biggest goal - become a centuri...
( 9/23/2010 )
KANSAS CITY, Mo. The Commandant of the Marine Corps told U.S. Marines in Kansas City Aug. 28 that he expects the Marine Corps to reduce manning levels sometime after the end of the war in Afghanistan.
Gen...
( 8/28/2010 )
CAMP DODGE, JOHNSTON, Iowa Marine Sgt. Douglas C. Gross checked in to Recruiting Station Des Moines at the start of the summer, and while school was out for those short three months, his focus was to get out and about in th...
( 8/20/2010 )
KANSAS CITY, Mo. As he tells the story, his head is on a swivel. He looks around as if he’s lost something. With various verbal pauses and clicks of his tongue, he seems distracte...
( 8/4/2010 )
KANSAS CITY, Mo. “Sugar Momma” is how Sgt. Victor Perez refers to his wife; a loving nickname since she is the ...
( 8/2/2010 )
LINCOLN, Neb. Staff Sgt. Scott Kwiatkowski is a wrestler on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln wrestling team, but since he became a walk-on in August 2009, he hasn’t stepped on the mat once. But, his coaches a...
( 7/14/2010 )
CHICAGO Marines run to the sound of the guns. Firefighters run to the smell of smoke.
March 23 marked a day when both ran to the same sound, of a Chicago Fire Department instructor, Instructor Walker, as...
( 7/13/2010 )
CHICAGO "My recruiter never promised me anything, he told me you have to earn it,” said Sgt. Maj. of the Marine Corps Carlton W. Kent, as he spoke to the Marines of Recruiting Station Chicago here Ju...
( 7/13/2010 )
FORT SNELLING, MINN.
Maj. Kenneth C. Gawronski assumed command of Marine Corps Recruiting Station Twin Cities from Maj. Daniel E. Colvin during a change of command cerem...
( 6/25/2010 )
KANSAS CITY, Mo.
New webcast interview: She's seen combat, jumped from planes & done time in DC. Now she sees every woman who wants to be a Marine.
( 4/7/2010 )
CHICAGO As fog slowly rolled off Lake Michigan into the streets of Chicago, hulking shadows emerged coming into focus as camouflaged and custom painted Humvees escorted by Marines in Dress Blues walked d...
( 3/13/2010 )
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. Recruiters are constantly engaged with the mission of finding qualified young men and women to join the Marine Corps. They are not always afforded the opportunity to develop the co...
( 3/8/2010 )
ROCHESTER, Minn Rose Wilson is a member of the U.S. Marine Corps’ Delayed Entry Program. She enlisted in the Marines 3 March, 20...
( 2/25/2010 )
KANSAS CITY, Mo.
Sometimes the best Marine for the job is a former Marine.
While M...
( 2/11/2010 )
Indianapolis One recruiter has claimed the honors of Recruiting Station Rookie (Recruiter) of the Year and Recruiter of the Year, Midwest Marines Recruiter of the ...
( 2/11/2010 )
KANSAS CITY, Mo. Eighteen sergeants from throughout the 9th Marine Corps District recently returned from New Or...
( 9/30/2009 )
NOBLESVILLE, Ind. Once a Marine, always a Marine, is a slogan many Marines have heard at lest once during their career.
Melvin...
( 9/28/2009 )
OMAHA, Neb. A Navy recruiter driving the Blue Angels’ flight surgeon and Marine recruiter Sgt. Karl Krebsbach to the Children’s Hospital & Medical Center in Omaha was lost. ...
( 8/28/2009 )
NORFOLK, Neb. The wall of Staff Sgt. Vetch's recruiting office in Norfolk, Nebraska, is covered with pictures of the men and women he put in the Marine Corps. Absent from the collection, however...
( 7/8/2009 )
MADISON, Wis.
Recruiting Station Milwaukee dramatically reduced its boot camp attrition rate for women over the past year from more tha...
( 7/7/2009 )
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. “I didn’t think [the Corps] would do something like this,” said former Marine officer Robert “Bob” Sander, a volunteer for the St. Joseph...
( 7/7/2009 )
KANSAS CITY, Mo.
Rhaashid Thompson says he is not following in his parents’ footsteps, no matter what it looks like.
( 7/1/2009 )
KALAMAZOO, Mich. Phylicia Zarnosky, a native of Grand Rapids, MI, and 2008 graduate of Kenowa Hills High School, received a $150,000 scholarship from Capt. Paul Vanderwater, executive office...
( 6/5/2009 )
MILWAUKEE
The Military Entrance Processing Station here dedicated its ceremonial oath room May 22 to the memory of Marine Pfc. Ryan M. Jerabek. Jerabek, a n...
( 5/22/2009 )
KANSAS CITY, Mo. Sgt. Maj. Carlton W. Kent, 16th sergeant major of the Marine Corps, met with Marines and sailors of 9th Marine Corps District and R...
( 5/19/2009 )
CEDAR HILL, Mo.
Sergeant Jarred E. Fienhold looked over the crowd, the crowd stared back with a look o...
( 5/4/2009 )
JOHNSTON, Iowa
More than 400 young men and women from Nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois and South Dakota who have signed up to become Marines ca...
( 5/1/2009 )
CAMP DODGE, Iowa
The mud covering 22-year-old Sheryll Chyraba’s exhausted five-foot frame was too thick for the rain to wash away as she stood panting...
( 4/24/2009 )
KANSAS CITY, Mo. Companies with franchised stores typically design their businesses with a particular uniformity, creating a familiar and comfortable environment for their customers. The franchise of Marine Corps ...
( 3/9/2009 )
JOHNSTON, Iowa
Marine Corps drill instructors visited numerous Iowa, Nebr...
( 3/9/2009 )
FORT SNELLING, Minn. The day was like any other day for the Prior Lake High School student body, but the monotony was soon broken when men and women in Dress Blue uniforms carrying instrument cases walked into the sch...
( 3/9/2009 )
KANSAS CITY, Mo.
In celebration of Women’s History Month, female Marines of the 9th Marine Corps District came together rece...
( 3/2/2009 )
MILWAUKEE Approximately 100 poolees from the four metro-Milwaukee recruiting substations put their Valentines Day love on hold as they headed to the Navy and Marine Corps Reserve Center to battle for respec...
( 2/14/2009 )
TAMPA, Fla. A crowd of more than 55,000 spectators rose in joined raucous celebration during halftime at the annual Outback Bowl Jan. 1 at Raymond James Stadium as U.S. Marines hit the field.
On a clear, su...
( 1/1/2009 )
KANSAS CITY, Mo. The Marine Corps has provided a new opportunity for Marines to further their education for free.
In an effort to better prepare ...
( 12/5/2008 )
LANSING, Mich. The Brass Quintet from Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif., went on a five-day tour of Recruiting Statio...
( 10/24/2008 )
LINCOLN, Neb.
( 9/23/2008 )
MILWAUKEE Numerous locations throughout Wisconsin opened their doors to the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Band from Twentynine Palms, Calif...
( 9/21/2008 )
DETROIT LAKES, Minn. With a giant inflatable drill instructor staring over her shoulder, Julie Norman, from Callaway, Minn., attemptes to hang for 70 seconds on ...
( 8/9/2008 )
OCONOMOWOC, Wis
Blue skies, birds chirping and a cool breeze may be an ideal morning for most people, but add in the smell of gun powder and the crac...
( 8/6/2008 )
CHICAGO Kyle Philip LeJeune was content reading residential gas meters in Chicago’s western suburbs -- until he realized his true calling.
...
( 7/29/2008 )
MILWAUKEE MILWAUKEE, Wis. – Most military recruiters pulled out all of the stops to attract attendees at what promoters tout as the “World’s Largest Music Festival,” displaying advanced compute...
( 7/6/2008 )
LANSING, Mich. A Recruiting Station Lansing Marine received one of the highest-obtainable awards available in recruiting, the coveted Centurion award for recruiting 100 individuals into the Marine Corps, during ...
( 5/16/2008 )
LANSING, MI A well-executed high school awards night can help recruiters build rapport with teachers and faculty, and it can generate interest in next year’s senior c...
( 5/15/2008 )
CAMP RILEY, MINN .—‘If it ain’t raining, we ain’t training,’ a popular mantra of the Marine Corps, rose to another level as an unseasonal snow storm whipped through Minnesota during Recruiting Station Twin Cities’ An...
( 5/15/2008 )
LANSING, MI The Brass Quintet from Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif. , toured Recruiting Station Lansing’s area April 21–25 to aid recruiters by increasing awareness o...
( 4/25/2008 )
FT MCCOY, WISC Katherine Hass saw the recruiting videos for Officer Candidate School and thought she knew what to expect. She was a little off.
( 4/19/2008 )
LANSING, MI The infamous Marine Corps drill instructors have played a vital role in the Corps' mission to make Marines at both recruit depots for more than 200 years, but recruiters have found that borr...
( 4/18/2008 )
CHICAGO It’s simple. If you grew up on the north side of Chicago , you’re a Chicago Cubs fan. If you’re on the south side, you cheer the White Sox.
( 4/7/2008 )
ROSEMONT, Ill.
The Marines took center stage – or center ice - during the Chicago Wolves Armed Forces Night recently at the All-State Arena here.
To date, RS Chicago has generated ...
( 4/3/2008 )
RS Milwaukee, Wis.
Recruiting is considered one of the most stressful and challenging duties in the Marine Corps, next to combat. For a Marine combat veteran turn recruiter from Recrui...
( 1/30/2008 )
LEAVENWORTH, Kan. One former Marine received a special gift on the morning of the Marine Corps Birthday.
( 11/10/2007 )
TWIN CITIES, Minn. He may not be a Marine of large stature, but Staff Sgt. Esteban Rosas, the staff noncommissioned officer-in-charge of Recruiting Substation St. Cloud, Recruitin...
( 11/7/2007 )
RECRUITING STATION TWIN CITIES, Minn.
The Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. James T. Conway and the Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps Sergeant Major Ca...
( 9/18/2007 )
9th Marine Corps District Less than one year ago, Marine Col. Roy A. Arnold was preparing more than 17,000 Marines and sailors with the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar-based 3d Marine Aircraft Wing to deploy in support of O...
( 12/1/2006 )
9th Marine Corps District “The only thing I wanted to do when I came out on recruiting was return to the fleet successful,” said Staff Sgt. Krisopher Korreck, recruiter, Recruiting Station Lansing, Recruiting Substation Muske...
( 12/1/2006 )
9th Marine Corps District Forty enlisted service men and women from seven military reserve components in the state of Wisconsin were recognized Nov. 12 at the 42nd Annual Wisconsin Military Achievement Awards at the Capitol b...
( 11/12/2006 )
9th Marine Corps District “‘Don’t I know you from somewhere?’ is usually how I start (my interviews). If they say ‘yes,’ half my job is done. If they say ‘no,’ I say to myself, Why not?” said Sgt. Peter Hansen, a Recruiting S...
( 11/1/2006 )
9th Marine Corps District “It was on a Friday afternoon that I received a call that changed the direction of my Marine Corps career forever,” said Gunnery Sgt. Terry Love, staff noncommissioned officer-in-charge, Recruiting S...
( 11/1/2006 )
9th Marine Corps District Twenty-six years ago, Mark Erhart, a Bemidji (Minn.) High School All-State baseball, football and wrestling champion, left his tiny, historically charming hometown, to join the Marines. On his journe...
( 11/1/2006 )
9th Marine Corps District Many of us make goals, strive to reach them, and look back at the year’s end to assess how we’ve done.
The past year has been full of challenges, old and new, that every recruiter has had t...
( 11/1/2006 )
9th Marine Corps District It’s the end of the fiscal year and the results are in. He did it again.
Capt. Chad Morton, officer selection officer, Officer Selection Station Kansas City, took the title of 9th Marine Co...
( 11/1/2006 )
9th Marine Corps District For nearly 231 years, the Marine Corps has been engaged in some of the bloodiest battles in history. However, not all battles are fought on far away shores against an organized enemy.
One ba...
( 11/1/2006 )
9th Marine Corps District Sometimes, the best applicants for the Marine Corps are those who have already served.
Enter Staff Sgt. Glendon L. Garrett, prior service recruiter, Prior Service Recruiting Site #1, Great ...
( 10/1/2006 )
9th Marine Corps District After two years of close second place finishes, the Recruiting Station Lansing Legionnaires took the Western Recruiting Region Recruiting Station of the Year Award, after repeating as 9th Marine Corp...
( 10/1/2006 )
9th Marine Corps District A Medal of Honor recipient and the son of a deceased Medal of Honor recipient were presented with Medal of Honor flags recently in Michigan and Illinois.
Public Law legislated the creation ...
( 9/21/2006 )
9th Marine Corps District Student activity around campus at the University of Illinois-Champaign came to an abrupt halt Sept. 14, when two CH-53E Super Stallion helicopters flew over town low and slow on a cross-country train...
( 9/14/2006 )
CHICAGO Persuading young men and women to join America’s “9-1-1” force has been the easiest job in the Marine Corps for Staff Sgt. Keith A. Sandor.
So easy that it took less than four years to succ...
( 8/22/2006 )
9th MARINE CORPS DISTRICT Representing the ranks from Pvt. through Sgt., recruiter aides can regularly refer up to 15 percent of a recruiting station’s annual mission.
As an essential component of Command Recruiting,...
( 7/27/2006 )
9th MARINE CORPS DISTRICT “It’s not the generals or colonels that win battles, it’s the men in the trenches that do. That is how I run my business.”
This is not a quote from a famous war hero, but from a former farm ...
( 7/20/2006 )
9th MARINE CORPS DISTRICT Hands down, recruiting is one of the hardest jobs in the Marine Corps. Every month you face the challenge of trying to convince several young Americans to leave the safety and security of their homes...
( 7/1/2006 )
9th MARINE CORPS DISTRICT Fifteen miles from Grand Rapids, Minn., sits the quaint community of Deer River, population 903. Its residents claim it to be a “Northwoods Paradise,” with “North” being the key word. Sitting just 70...
( 7/1/2006 )
9th MARINE CORPS DISTRICT The birth of future Marines begins with their first step into a recruiting office. Getting an applicant to come to a recruiting office can be a challenge for recruiters. As recruiters take on the inc...
( 7/1/2006 )
9TH MARINE CORPS DISTRICT The Marines would have never been able to storm the shores of Tripoli or raise the American flag on top of Mount Suribachi if a battle plan wasn’t prepared ahead of time. These historical examples sh...
( 5/1/2006 )
RS Lansing Poolees and their families from Marine Corps Recruiting Substations Saginaw and Flint recently received a sample of recruit training from two of Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego’s legendary drill...
( 4/1/2006 )
9TH MARINE CORPS DISTRICT One-hundred eighty-six of the Marine Corps’ future leaders left their protected collegiate lifestyles for a three-day, sleep-deprived, physically-exhausting introduction to the Marine Corps.
( 4/1/2006 )
9TH MARINE CORPS DISTRICT St. Louis was alive with the sound of music as Marine Band San Diego toured high schools and concert venues April 24 – 27.
According to Gunnery Sgt. William R. Howe, music programs coordina...
( 4/1/2006 )
9th Marine Corps District Many consider recruiting duty the most challenging assignment in the Marine Corps. However, with this difficult duty come many rewarding experiences and new skills that benefit Marines for the rest o...
( 3/1/2006 )
9th Marine Corps District Even though the shipping mission is generally more important than the contract mission, almost any Marine Corps recruiting expert would agree a strong HS/CC Program is paramount, he said.
“I...
( 3/1/2006 )
9TH MARINE CORPS DISTRICT During processing, the deck of the receiving barracks at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego is littered with a variety of personal items recruits should not bring to recruit training.
“Jus...
( 3/1/2006 )
9TH MARINE CORPS DISTRICT Intimidation is defined as being frightened into submission; inducing fear or a sense of inferiority into another where all spirit is broken and courage is lost. Standing in front of a 30-foot high, ...
( 3/1/2006 )
9TH MARINE CORPS DISTRICT Few things are as frustrating on recruiting duty as a feeling that one has wasted time and energy. A recruiter’s demanding schedule usually means that their liberty must be as managed and calculated ...
( 3/1/2006 )
9TH MARINE CORPS DISTRICT The Marines of Recruiting Substation Dupage South in Chicago’s western suburbs bring “hockey bootcamp” to the Thursday off-ice practices of the Naperville North junior varsity hockey team.
Nickna...
( 3/1/2006 )
9TH MARINE CORPS DISTRICT, KANSAS CITY, Mo. With each duty station comes its own unique benefits and challenges. An unaccompanied tour causes separation from family, and some duty stations have transportation, budgeting, and language challenge...
( 2/13/2006 )
9TH MARINE CORPS DISTRICT, KANSAS CITY, Mo. Recruiters from the 9th Marine Corps District are breathing in that new car smell of the new fleet of Event Marketing Vehicles - the red High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles.
Eight ...
( 2/13/2006 )
9TH MARINE CORPS DISTRICT, KANSAS CITY, Mo. It’s been said that, “Good things come to those who wait.” While that maxim may hold true with many things, Reserve contracting and shipping is not one of them.
Conventional wisdom at 9th Ma...
( 2/13/2006 )
9TH MARINE CORPS DISTRICT, KANSAS CITY, Mo. While some Marines are financially stable, others live from payday to payday without saving or investing money for their futures. When Marines come on independent duty they must be very diligent with...
( 2/13/2006 )
9th Marine Corps District Frequent travel has been a facet of a military lifestyle since the conception of human conflict. Long before Greek soldiers fought the Peloponnesian War, a traveling song and a longing for home were ...
( 2/1/2006 )
ST LOUIS, Mo. Say you’re a high school senior, and you want to be a Marine. Information about the Corps is difficult to find in your school. Your friends aren’t planning to enlist, nobody in your family has been a...
( 12/26/2005 )
DES MOINES, Iowa Career recruiters have at least another three months to earn a hefty bonus for re-enlisting, the Marine Corps announced Dec. 13.
According to Marine Administrative Message 588/05, the progra...
( 12/13/2005 )
RS Des Moines, Iowa With blinkers now on, Midwest recruiters will steer their way out of the information superhighway’s slow lane in 2006.
By next year, recruiters will have individual e-mail accounts and Inte...
( 11/20/2005 )
RS TWIN CITIES, Minn. What does it take to be a successful Marine recruiter? A strong work ethic? Vast knowledge of the Marine Corps? Communication skills above reproach? How about heroism in the line of duty?
...
( 11/15/2005 )
RS CHICAGO, Ill. November 10, 2005 marked the Marine Corps’ 230th birthday. Marines here celebrated with Chicagoland Marine Week Nov. 6 - 13.
The celebratory week was designed to unite the Marine community—p...
( 11/13/2005 )
RECRUITING STATION LANSING, Mich. The numbers are in and the Recruiting Station Lansing Legionnaires are rated number one in the 9th Marine Corps District for fiscal year 2005 having contracted and shipped more than its fair share mi...
( 11/1/2005 )
RECRUITING STATION INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. At five foot, eight inches tall and 180 pounds, Staff Sgt. Craig P. Dangel physically portrays the word Marine. He is in shape, has a bench and weights in the front of his Recruiting Substation, and ...
( 11/1/2005 )
RECRUITING STATION MILWAUKEE, Wis. Recruiting duty begins long before sun up and lasts long after sun down. Recruiters struggle with obstacles, such as time management, indifference, and public perception on a daily basis. For Marin...
( 11/1/2005 )
9TH MARINE CORPS DISTRICT, KANSAS CITY, Mo. In the timeless battle of man versus waistline, Marines on recruiting duty find fast food, stress, and long workdays fighting against them as they strive to fit into their pre-recruiting trousers. Bu...
( 10/1/2005 )
9TH MARINE CORPS DISTRICT, KANSAS CITY, Mo. Recruiters face challenges every day they are on recruiting duty. These challenges do not get any easier when holidays begin approaching. And when applicants are thinking about spending time with fam...
( 10/1/2005 )
RECRUITING STATION LANSING, Mich. College just isn’t for everyone who is coming straight out of high school, nor is it for all veteran college students.
Students considering college as an option often look into the military...
( 8/25/2005 )
9th Marine Corps District, Kansas City, Mo. The last week of May, Sgt. Mohamed Abdi barely escaped an apartment fire, taking only the clothes on his back. Yet by mission day he had enlisted four applicants. The next month he sent five more d...
( 8/15/2005 )
RECRUITING STATION ST. LOUIS, Mo. Poolees from Recruiting Substations Belleville and Springfield, Ill., braved a steady rainfall to watch the United States Marine Corps Silent Drill Platoon perform at the Illinois State Fair Aug. 14....
( 8/14/2005 )
RECRUITING STATION DES MOINES, Iowa Defying the odds, two Recruiting Station Des Moines recruiters received rare honors here Aug. 11, for signing up 100 recruits each over the past four years.
Dubbed “centurions,” after Roman...
( 8/11/2005 )
RSS Overland Park, Kan. 6:30 a.m.
Buzz!
Staff Sgt. Joe I. Moran, an RSS Overland Park, RS Kansas City recruiter, stumbles to his bathroom and groggily shuts off his alarm clock, increasingly aware a new da...
( 8/3/2005 )
RS Indianapolis, Ind. Recruiting is necessary for the Marine Corps to sustain its full strength. Recruiters must continually find those few who accept the challenge to become members of one of the most elite of military b...
( 6/30/2005 )
RS Des Moines, Iowa In a time when Marine recruiters across the country face increasing opposition from their applicants’ parents, some here are turning to their "Moms" for help.The Moms of the Marines they en...
( 6/30/2005 )
RS Chicago The armed forces have succeeded in a secret joint mission – they have successfully changed the meaning of military service. Through careful use of highly developed tools, the armed forces obliterated...
( 5/15/2005 )
RS Des Moines Rising through the thick air of the sound-proof audition room, trumpet blasts cry for acceptance.
The young trumpeter, with an untucked T-shirt, a goatee and long curls resembling Kenny G, s...
( 5/15/2005 )
Headquarters, 9th Marine Corps District College students usually look forward to weekends for time away from books and school, or merely time to catch up on things they haven’t completed during the school week.
However, officer ca...
( 4/28/2005 )
Minneapolis When Lance Cpl. Tony Stevens first met with a recruiter, his resume was not typical of most enlistees.A former minor-league shortstop with the Minnesota Twins’ AA affiliate, the New Britain Rock Cats...
( 4/10/2005 )
RS Indianapolis Chad Foster of Greenwood, Ind., is even more pumped about becoming a Marine and shipping to boot camp after the events of April 9.
Foster received his motivation from three drill instructors...
( 4/1/2005 )
KANSAS CITY, Mo. The nation’s top enlisted Marine stressed the importance of the Recruiting Command, Mobilization Command and Marine Forces Reserve during a two-day visit to the Kansas City area Oct. 5.
Serg...
( 10/5/2004 )
NINTH MARINE CORPS DISTRICT, Kansas City, Mo Marines and their family members got together February 28 for an RS Family Day, in conjunction with the monthly All Hands meeting. The occasion - one of the RS' most respected recruiters obtained on...
( 4/30/2004 )
NINTH MARINE CORPS DISTRICT, Kansas City, Mo Prior Service Recruiting (PSR) is not like regular recruiting. There is no catchy sales pitch or fancy commercials that make a prior service Marine want to return to the ranks.
It depends...
( 4/30/2004 )
RS CHICAGO, Chicago An essential concept found in the toolboxes of many Marine recruiters is that of the intangibles. The Corps, from its recruiters to its drill instructors to its fleet Marines, promotes honor, courage...
( 2/24/2004 )
RS TWIN CITIES, Minn. Overcoming obstacles in the Twin Cities Recruiting Station is no different from any other station, but these days it seems the only obstacles left to overcome are left to the poolees - the recruiters...
( 2/11/2004 )
MARINE CORPS RECRUIT DEPOT SAN DIEGO, Calif. The Educator’s Workshop (EW) is in place to familiarize educators who are influential within the recruiter’s target market, and who are indifferent toward the Marine Corps, about the opportunities th...
( 1/8/2004 )
NINTH MARINE CORPS DISTRICT, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI Working persistently out of his humble office in Valparaiso, In., SSgt. Charles P. Berglund ex-pects to succeed. And he does. He has established a self-fulfilling prophecy in which he achieves exactl...
( 11/29/2003 )
RECRUITING STATION LANSING, Mich. A local staff non-commissioned officer-in-charge and his 12-year-old son took to the mats recently as they promoted the Marine Corps during a national wrestling match in Oklahoma.
“We recrui...
( 11/29/2003 )
NINTH MARINE CORPS DISTRICT, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI Motivated performance produced results for an RS Lansing recruiter as he picked up the coveted title of Centurion and achieved the status of Recruiter of the Year for this recruiting station.
( 11/29/2003 )
NINTH MARINE CORPS DISTRICT, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI The competitive nature of Marine Corps recruiting can be almost as grueling as professional sports ? long tiring hours and hard work can push Marines to their limits.
For SSgt. Jeffrey W. Da...
( 11/29/2003 )
NINTH MARINE CORPS DISTRICT, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI With the morning sun catching the outline of the truck, a gigantic Marine NCO sword image shines like a diamond. The images of nine Marines reflect on the faces of the spectators. The trucks seem to ...
( 11/29/2003 )
NINTH MARINE CORPS DISTRICT More than 200 years of Marine Corps music has entertained the world, yet it's not just anyone playing the music. It takes a certain type of individual to join the elite Marine Corps bands.
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( 9/11/2003 )
NINTH MARINE CORPS DISTRICT A beer brewing family in Chippewa Falls, Wis., has been providing fine beverages to it's customers since 1867, but their most important contribution to society has been brewed since 1942 when the fir...
( 9/11/2003 )
SOUTH BEND, Ind. The program at the press conference described new inductee Dwayne Nix as, ?the local kid who made good.? However, it would have been just as accurate if it had read, ?the man who devoted his life t...
( 8/22/2003 )
NINTH MARINE CORPS DISTRICT With briefcase in hand and the pressure of production driving them, recruiters converge on high schools all over the country during August, conducting initial visits with aims of establishing rapport...
( 6/10/2003 )
RECRUITING SUBSTATION WEST OMAHA, BOSCOBEL, Wis. In December 1947, a young man from Southern Wisconsin walked into his local Marine Corps recruiting office. Looking to escape the cold and snow of Wisconsin, the young man asked the recruiter, "...
( 1/29/2003 )
RECRUITING STATION INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. If someone were to ask recruiters what they think about recruiting duty, they very well may receive as many different replies as there are recruiters to ask. For those who find satisfaction in bring...
( 11/18/2002 )
NINTH MARINE CORPS RECRUITING DISTRICT HEADQUARTERS KANSAS CITY, Mo. On the one-year anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, many in the country paid their respects in their own way on their own terms.
The Marines of 9th Marine Cor...
( 9/11/2002 )
MARINE CORPS RECRUITING STATION LANSING, Mich. They may not be fighting for their lives like the Marines on Iwo Jima or those currently in the war on terror, but Marine recruiters engage a different type of enemy daily as they carry out a series ...
( 8/30/2002 )
MARINE CORPS RECRUITING STATION MILWAUKEE, Wis. Marine Corps history recently came to life when two World War II Navaho Code Talkers visited Fond du Lac, Wis., to talk with high school students from the Fond du Lac Area Catholic Education System (...
( 8/28/2002 )
NINTH MARINE CORPS DISTRICT, Recruiting Station Des Moines "Recruiting is a twenty-four-seven job," SSgt. Scott Coty, a RS Des Moines recruiter, said with a smirk. "And the difference between a good recruiter and a struggling recruiter is how ...
( 6/27/2002 )
TOPEKA, Kan. (This story has been re-printed with permission the Topeka Capitol-Journal)
Supporters of Topeka High School's Marine Corps Junior ROTC drill team filled the school's sidewalks Sunday aftern...
( 4/29/2001 )
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