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Desert Shield/Desert Storm

From the Leatherneck Archives: April 1991 Stories from the Marines on the Ground Jan. 15, 1991, Was Payday at the Front, But Nobody Remembers It Just hours before Operation Desert Storm began, Sergeant Kevin Kessinger, a tank commander with the 1st Marine Division’s armor-heavy Task Force Ripper, said the only thing different about Jan. 15, 1991, was that

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A Universal Language

As Afghan Evacuees Arrive at Quantico, Marines Get Creative to Bridge Cultural Divide   By Sara W. Bock In 2009, Marine Corps combat artist Kris Battles traveled to Helmand Province, Afghanistan, where he produced numerous works depicting the bond between Marines and local Afghans who assisted them as interpreters and translators or in other vital

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