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Corporal William Grant. - Corporal William Grant, a Combined Arms Training Center, Camp Fuji, food service Marine, in the galley during the Marine Corps Installations Pacific Food Services Specialist of the Quarter competition, August 18, 2026. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Song Jordan)

In His Own Words: William Grant

Feature article: Corporal William Grant.

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Photo of LCpl. Kaw Htoo and Cpl. Eli Lancelot. - (Right to Left) LCpl. Kaw Htoo and Cpl. Eli Lancelot, chefs assigned to Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, listen to pit masters teaching a class about barbecue during the first day of the Marine Corps Installations Pacific Food Services Specialist of the Quarter competition at Combined Arms Training Center, Camp Fuji, August 18, 2026. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Song Jordan)

Camp Fuji Hosts Fourth Quarter MCIPAC Chef of the Quarter Competition

Marine Corps Installations Pacific’s fiscal year 2026 fourth quarter, Food Services Specialist of the Quarter competition was held at Combined Arms Training Center, Camp Fuji.

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WARR Center Opens at CATC Camp Fuji

Grand Opening event at CATC Camp Fuji premieres the Warrior Athlete Readiness Resilience (WARR) center.

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Camp Fuji Marines Participate in Yamanako Ice Candle Festival

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Bodybuilders listening to instructions before taking the stage for the competition. - (In the foreground left to right.) Sgt. Sho Hochi translates instructions to Combined Arms Training Center, Camp Fuji, Marine Sgts. Dakota Rhodes and Jordan Sparks, before they compete in their first novice bodybuilding competition at a neighboring Japanese Self-Defense Force garrison’s anniversary celebration, July 18, 2025. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Song Jordan)

CATC Camp Fuji Marines Enter Their First Bodybuilding Contest

A couple of CATC Camp Fuji Marines participate in their first bodybuilding contest held at a neighboring Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force garrison.

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U.S. Marine Corps Rehearses Deploying Air Defense Radar to the Philippines

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Ten battlefield crosses stand in honor of fallen Marines with 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, during a memorial ceremony at Prince Sultan Air Base, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Sept. 12, 2021.  The ceremony was held to honor the 10 Marines with 2nd Bn., 1st Marines, who were killed in a suicide attack on Aug. 26, 2021, during the U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan. - Ten battlefield crosses stand in honor of fallen Marines with 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, during a memorial ceremony at Prince Sultan Air Base, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Sept. 12, 2021.  The ceremony was held to honor the 10 Marines with 2nd Bn., 1st Marines, who were killed in a suicide attack on Aug. 26, 2021, during the U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan.

5 years later; fallen service members, events of Kabul Evacuation remembered

"We landed under the cover of night, stepping into the exact nightmare we had just watched on

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Marines, corpsmen ‘ran toward’ Twentynine Palms home rocked by explosion

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The “Crusading for Right” statue, also known as “Iron Mike,” stands outside Butler Hall at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, Aug. 16, 2026. The bronze monument, created in 1918 by French sculptor Charles Raphael Peyre, depicts a World War I U.S. Marine holding an M1903 Springfield rifle. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Lynsee Avila-Ramirez) - The “Crusading for Right” statue, also known as “Iron Mike,” stands outside Butler Hall at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, Aug. 16, 2026. The bronze monument, created in 1918 by French sculptor Charles Raphael Peyre, depicts a World War I U.S. Marine holding an M1903 Springfield rifle. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Lynsee Avila-Ramirez)

Crusading for Right' or 'Iron Mike'? The true story of Quantico's iconic statue

In the quiet, dust motes of a Parisian sculptor’s studio in 1918, Charles Raphaël Peyre stood face-to-face with the raw reality of the Western Front. Before him stood Pvt. Carl J. Millard — a twice-wounded Marine from the 5th Regiment, sent directly from the hellscape of Chateau-Thierry. Still clad in his mud-caked combat gear and gripping his Springfield rifle, the exhausted private embodied the fierce defiance Peyre had only read about in the front-line dispatches. Peyre knew immediately that this was the stance he had to freeze in bronze.

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Marine rushes into burning Okinawa hotel to alert sleeping occupants

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