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94. For a sampling, see Estes, Handbook for Marine NCOs, 3–4. Chesty Puller is a
notable exception. Although he enlisted, it was while serving as an officer that
he earned his five Navy Crosses and his Distinguished Service Cross.
95. USMC, Sustaining the Transformation, unpaginated introduction.
96. A significant percentage of the widely popular Marine- based comic strip Terminal
Lance (found at http://​terminallance​.com/) is dedicated to taking punches
at POGs. For typical YouTube fare, search “POGs vs. Grunts.”
97. Maj. Alfred A. Cunningham, “Value of Aviation to the Marine Corps,” Marine
Corps Gazette (May 2013): 99.
98. Salmoni and Holmes- Eber, Operational Culture, 280.
99. Fick, One Bullet Away, 23, 180.
100. Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune, “Preparation,” Marine Corps Gazette (March
1922): 55.
101. Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune, “A Brief History of the U.S. Marine Corps,” Marine
Corps Gazette (March 1923): 19.
102. Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune, “The United States Marine Corps,” Marine Corps
Gazette (December 1923): 249–54.
103. Wendall C. Neville succeeded Lejeune as commandant but died sixteen months
later without leaving his mark on the pages of the Marine Corps Gazette.
104. For a detailed history of this internal conflict, see Bickel, Mars Learning.
105. Maj. Gen. Ben H. Fuller, “The Mission of the Marine Corps,” Marine Corps
Gazette (November 1930): 7.
106. Ulbrich, Preparing for Victory, 40.
107. Bickel, Mars Learning, 205–27.
108. “Major General John H. Russell, U.S.M.C.,” Marine Corps Gazette (November
1936); Schmidt, United States Occupation of Haiti, 95–221.
109. Russell, “Plea for a Mission and Doctrine.”
110. Brig. Gen. John H. Russell, “A New Naval Policy,” Marine Corps Gazette
(August 1933): 13.
111. Ulbrich, Preparing for Victory, 38.
112. The manuals’ titles are represented here as Russell wrote them in his capstone
contribution to the Gazette upon retirement. Brig. Gen. John H. Russell,
“Final Report of Major General Commandant,” Marine Corps Gazette
(November 1936).
113. Bickel, Mars Learning, 220–24.
114. Holcomb’s education at the Naval War College focused on Japan as the most
plausible primary US enemy. Ulbrich, Preparing for Victory, 32.
115. Ibid., 40.
116. Lt. Gen. Thomas Holcomb, “First to Fight,” Marine Corps Gazette (November
1943): 16.
117. Cameron, American Samurai, 36–38.
118. Holcomb, “First to Fight,” 16.
119. Lt. Gen. Thomas Holcomb, “Marines in War and Peace,” Marine Corps Gazette
(December 1943): 4.