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SUBJ/RECRUITING PROWESS//
RMKS/1.  CONGRATULATIONS TO THE MARINES, SAILORS, AND
CIVILIAN-MARINES OF THE MARINE CORPS RECRUITING COMMAND (MCRC)
ON YOUR 60TH CONSECUTIVE MONTH OF MISSION ACCOMPLISHMENT!  
YOUR INDOMITABLE SPIRIT, HARD WORK, AND TENACITY IN SURMOUNTING
THE DAY-TO-DAY CHALLENGES HAVE ENABLED YOU TO SEIZE YOUR
OBJECTIVE--OFFICER AND ENLISTED, MALE AND FEMALE, REGULAR AND
RESERVE--EACH MONTH FOR THE PAST 60 MONTHS, AN INCREDIBLE FIVE
YEARS.  I REMAIN COMMITTED TO SUPPORTING OUR RECRUITING MISSION,
A CORNERSTONE TO THE FUTURE OF OUR BELOVED CORPS OF MARINES.
2.  THE WARFIGHTING REQUIREMENTS OF THE 21ST CENTURY MANDATE THAT,
AS AN INSTITUTION, WE MAINTAIN THE HIGH STANDARDS THAT ARE THE
LIFEBLOOD OF OUR CORPS.  YOUR CONSISTENT, BATTLE-TESTED PERFORMANCE
STANDS AS A TESTAMENT TO THE PROVEN "BEST PRACTICES" OF SYSTEMATIC
RECRUITING.  THIS METHODOLOGY, COUPLED WITH THE EXTRAORDINARY
PROFESSIONALISM OF THE INDIVIDUAL ENLISTED MARINE RECRUITER ON THE
STREET AND OFFICERS WHO OVERSEE OPERATIONS, MAINTAINS YOUR RECRUITING
FORCE AS THE PREMIER TEAM THAT IT IS.  SIMPLY STATED, YOUR DEDICATION
YIELDS VICTORY ONE DAY AT A TIME, ONE ENLISTMENT AT A TIME.
3.  IN TODAY'S EXTREMELY DIFFICULT RECRUITING MARKET, SOMETIMES
CALLED THE "WAR FOR TALENT," YOUR CONSISTENT SUCCESS EPITOMIZES ALL
THAT IS RIGHT AND HONORABLE ABOUT OUR NATION'S CORPS OF MARINES.  
YOUR ABILITY TO EXCEED DOD AND MARINE CORPS BENCHMARKS FOR THE
ENLISTMENT OF OUR NATION'S HIGHEST QUALITY YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN
FURTHER REINFORCES THE EXEMPLARY STANDARDS OF OUR CORPS.
4.  ADDITIONALLY, YOUR OFFICER ACCESSION EFFORT MIRRORS THE SUCCESS
ATTAINED BY THE ENLISTED SIDE OF "TEAM MCRC".  FISCAL YEAR 2000 WILL
MARK ANOTHER YEAR WHERE ALL OFFICER ACCESSION TARGETS WILL BE MET
CATEGORICALLY.  THIS IS PARTICULARLY NOTEWORTHY, COMING AT A TIME
WHEN YOU INSTITUTED A NATIONAL SELECTION BOARD TO ENSURE THAT ONLY
THE BEST QUALIFIED APPLICANTS FROM ALL ELEMENTS OF AMERICAN SOCIETY
ARE GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO BECOME AN OFFICER OF MARINES.  INDEED,
IN A TOTAL FORCE EFFORT, YOU ARE BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OUR CORPS.
5.  I SPEAK FOR ALL MARINES, OFFICER AND ENLISTED, ACTIVE AND
RETIRED, WHEN I SAY THAT WE COULD NOT BE ANY MORE PROUD OF YOUR
SUSTAINED PERFORMANCE.  YOUR ACTIONS EXEMPLIFY THAT THE INDIVIDUAL
MARINE IS THE CORPS, AND "SEMPER FIDELIS" IS A WAY OF LIFE.  THE
UNDAUNTED TEAMWORK AND LEADERSHIP DEMONSTRATED BY "TEAM MCRC"--
MARINES, SAILORS, CIVILIAN-MARINES AND THEIR FAMILIES--CONTINUES TO
REINFORCE THE TIME-HONORED ETHOS OF OUR CORPS.  IT IS WHAT
DISTINCTLY SETS US APART FROM OTHER FIGHTING FORCES AROUND THE
WORLD.  MARINES EXIST TO FIGHT AND WIN, AND BECAUSE YOU CONSISTENTLY
"SEIZE THE OBJECTIVE," YOU ARE A SHINING EXAMPLE FOR ALL TO FOLLOW!
I LOOK FORWARD TO THE HONOR OF PERSONALLY ATTACHING THE RECENTLY
APPROVED NAVY UNIT COMMENDATION TO YOUR ORGANIZATIONAL COLORS DURING
A CEREMONY AT THIS YEAR'S NATIONAL OPERATIONS AND TRAINING
CONFERENCE ON 3 OCTOBER 2000.
6.  J. L. JONES, GENERAL, U.S. MARINE CORPS, COMMANDANT OF THE
MARINE CORPS.//
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