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Out in the California high desert, a new breed of astronaut is being built in the race to make private space exploration a reality. When Nicholas Schmidle was granted rare access to these test pilots at Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, he hoped he might discover something about ambition and courage. He didn’t expect to confront the legacy of his own fighter ace father.

Brigadier General Phillip N. Frietze Brigadier General Phillip N. Frietze is currently serving as the Commanding General, 1st Marine Logistics Group.  He hails from Las Cruces, New Mexico and is a graduate of New Mexico State University. He was commissioned through the Officer Candidate Course Program in August 1991 and attended The Basic School, the Marine Corps Engineer Officer’s Course, the U.S. Army Engineer Officer’s Advanced Course, Marine Corps Command and Staff College, Joint Force...

Graphic Online BY: Gilbert Mawuli Agbey Category: Education Mrs Cynthia Mamle Morrison (right), MP for the Agona West Constituency, being assisted by Mr Jerry Ahmed Shaib (2nd right), Chief Executive Officer of CODA, to cut the tape to inaugurate the classroom block 30.5k Shares 705 The Coastal Development Authority (CODA) has handed over a gated two-unit kindergarten classroom block to the Agona West Municipal Assembly (AWMA) Basic School at Wawase, a suburb of Agona Swedru in the Central Re...

  Mr Kofi Asare, the Executive Director of the Africa Education Watch, says the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), needs a regulator. He said the regulator would help to standardise the Council’s operations and ensure that it delivered as expected to produce “true and learned students.” Mr Asare said that had become necessary because WAEC set its questions, marked by itself, and did an assessment of schools, students, and their results as well as examiners by itself. He recommende...

SANTA ANA, Calif. -- As a Marine, you are either in the infantry or you support the infantry. Marine Corps aviation plays a major contribution to achieving mission success while working with their ground counterparts. A Marine Corps pilot is able to provide support for the mission and decisions of what ends up being the maneuver warfare. One of the biggest impacts aviation plays in is the Marine Air-Ground Task Force. The MAGTF is the only combined combat organization in the world that consist...

500 Marines Will Begin Testing These New PT Uniforms this Summer About 500 Marines will test and evaluate newly designed physical training uniform, service officials announced on April 13, 2021. (U.S. Marine Corps/Facebook) 13 Apr 2021 The Marine Corps has awarded contracts to four companies to produce prototypes of new physical training uniforms that will be tested by a mix of personnel starting in July. About 500 Marines will test and evaluate the newly designed physical training uniform, ser...

Since the plain of Thermopylae, character is the critical starting point in developing soldierly readiness and will be increasingly important in current competition and future conflicts. Character is, and will be, such a critical element of combat success that all leaders must deliberately approach character development as integral to combat readiness. This is the heart of the spiritual fitness effort in the Marine Corps—preparing the warrior for today’s competition and any future conflict....

In the middle of an emergency operations center exercise, all the landline telephones stopped working. The entire base staff immediately stopped being able to coordinate response actions. My cellphone rang, and I learned that the main telephone switch had lost power. My Marines did not know if the switch would survive the power loss. We waited as the switch began to reboot, with non-operational telephones and the exercise in shambles. In this moment, I found myself unable to lead. I did not pos...

I MEF Leaders Commanding General, I Marine Expeditionary Force Lt. Gen. Karsten "Hazel" Heckl Lieutenant General Karsten "Hazel" Heckl assumed command of I Marine Expeditionary Force on 31 July 2020.A native of Stone Mountain Georgia, Lieutenant General Heckl graduated from Georgia State University and was commissioned in April 1988.  He was designated an unrestricted Naval Aviator in...

UGA senior earns top Marine officer training award 5 days ago Tripp Koenig stands in front of the Chapel. (Photo by Stephanie Schupska) George “Tripp” Koenig of Atlanta puts boots on the ground when it comes to leading and inspiring. A University of Georgia senior, he spent six weeks over the past two summers in Quantico, Virginia, tackling the task of U.S. Marine Corps Officer Candidate School. He didn’t just survive the process. Koenig thrived, rising to the top of his class and earning...