Leatherneck September 2023

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The Healing of a Marine

Editor’s note: We are publishing Col Patty Klop’s story to reinforce the importance of speaking openly about PTSD and other mental health issues and to encourage veterans to ask for help. For information about resources available to veterans, visit: https://old.mca-marines.org/blog/resource/resources-for-veteran-marines/ My name is Patty Klop. I have post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and I am not

U.S. Marines, Cuba, and the Invasion that Never Was: Part 1

On Oct. 14, 1962, photographic evidence produced by an American U-2 high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft revealed the construction of Soviet medium-range nuclear ballistic missile sites in Cuba a mere 90 miles off the southern coast of the continental U.S. Additional reconnaissance flights on Oct. 15 and 16 confirmed site construction as well as the presence of