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26. Oral history file AFC 2001/001/49712 MS02 [1], Veterans History Project. See
also AFC 2001/001/73183 MS01 and AFC 2001/001/37518 MS01.
27. Capt. Karen M. Walker, “Women Leading Men,” Marine Corps Gazette (May
2009): 41–44.
28. For arguments in favor, see Capt. Jessica M. Hawkins, “Female Assignment
Policy,” Marine Corps Gazette (September 2012): 73–76; Maj. Amy “Krusty”
McGrath, “Women in Combat,” Marine Corps Gazette (November 2012):
47–49; Capt. Lia B. Heeter, “Women in Combat,” Marine Corps Gazette (July
2013): 29–32; and Capt. Marissa Loya, “Combat Exclusion Policy: Outdated
and Impractical,” Marine Corps Gazette (September 2013): 78–80. An argument
against is found in Capt. Katie Petronio, “Get Over It!: We Are Not All
Created Equal,” Marine Corps Gazette (July 2012): 29–32.
29. Cooling and Turner, “Understanding the Few Good Men,” 8.
30. Randy Shepard, correspondence with the author, November 2, 2011.
31. Randy Shepard, “How the U.S. Marines Brought Rambo and Bono Together
through Research (and Why),” demographics research and commercial campaign
assessment paper prepared for J. Walter Thompson Co. and selected as
a Jay Chiat Awards Winner, (2012). Pdf available at http://​stratfest​.aaaa​.org​
/2012​- winners/.
32. Oral history file AFC 2001/001/78228 MS02, Veterans History Project.
33. Oral history file AFC 2001/001/72364 MS01, Veterans History Project.
34. Oral history file AFC 2001/001/52380 MS02, Veterans History Project.
35. Oral history file AFC 2001/001/74501 MS01, Veterans History Project.
36. Spooner captures the Marine ethic of keeping their dead alive through one
squad leader’s consistent refrain: “No one is really dead until he is forgotten.”
His reminder is twofold: It is the obligation of every Marine to inspire vibrant
remembrance of those that have fallen, and consequently, no Devil Dog need
fear death in the Corps. Spooner, Marine Anthology, 241.
37. Commandant Gen. Randolph M. Pate, “Commandant’s Birthday Message,”
Marine Corps Gazette (November 1956): 98.
38. Sturkey, Warrior Culture of the U.S. Marines, 21.
39. O’Connell, Underdogs, 40.
40. Spooner, Marine Anthology, 266.
41. United States Marine Corps (hereafter USMC), Marine Corps Values and
Leadership.
42. Ricks, Making the Corps, 62.
43. Fick, One Bullet Away, 18.
44. USMC, Marine Corps Values and Leadership, 4- 1.
45. USMC, Warfighting, 56, 57 (italics in original).
46. Spooner, Marine Anthology, 64.
47. Fick, One Bullet Away, 145.
48. Robert B. Asprey, “The Court- Martial of Smedley Butler,” Marine Corps
Gazette (December 1959): 30.
49. Oral history file AFC 2001/001/53039 MS01, Veterans History Project.