Irene Loewenson is a staff reporter for Marine Corps Times. She joined Military Times as an editorial fellow in August 2022. She is a graduate of Williams College, where she was the editor-in-chief of the student newspaper.
Marine veterans and a school superintendent raced to get Richard Remp, who joined the Marine Corps at 17 to serve in World War II, his high school diploma.
Once a young man from rural Maryland, who didn’t meet a Marine until college, retired Gen. David Berger joined the Corps in the wake of the Vietnam War.
Gen. Eric Smith and his wife won’t be moving their boxes into the "Home of the Commandants" quite yet, but he will have powers of a confirmed top Marine.