Transcription of MCMAP and the Marine Warrior Ethos
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17 MILITARY REVIEWlNovember - December 2004 DURING THE 1970s, after the Vietnam War,a self-identity malaise befell the ArmedForces. Pacifism, self-indulgence, and egalitarianmulticulturalism supplanted selfless patriotism ascore values across thespectrum of Americansocial institutions. Keysegments of societypublicly expressed con-tempt for any notion ofservice as an obligationof citizenship, includingpatriotic service in themilitary. This view be-came commonplacethroughout the Nation seducational system,religious organizations,institutions of higherlearning, and among in-fluential members ofsociety, including politi-cal figures, members ofthe media, and enter-tainment-industry lumi-naries.
20 November-December 2004 l MILITARY REVIEW was, “Every Marine an Infantryman.” Jones wanted to take the training further, however. He would train all Marines to be one-on-one warriors—masters of
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