BGuthrie Photos: VA -- Quantico -- Natl Museum of the Marine Corps -- Overlook for the new galleries

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. MCMOVR_230113_248.JPG: The First Battle of Fallujah
2. MCMOVR_230113_252.JPG: Fallujah
3. MCMOVR_230113_283.JPG: Desert Shield
4. MCMOVR_230113_289.JPG: Invasion of Grenada
5. MCMOVR_230113_312.JPG: Marine Aviation The new galleries will feature an F/A-18A Hornet assigned to VMFA-321, a USMC Reserve Squadron, which flew combat air patrols over Washington, DC, in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.
6. MCMOVR_230113_315.JPG: Desert Storm At the time, Desert Shield/Desert Storm was the largest deployment of Marines since the Vietnam War. The gallery will include an M60A1 Tank as it drives through the berm into Kuwait and an M198 Howitzer on the first ground combat mission of the war.
7. MCMOVR_230113_318.JPG: Gallery Overview The galleries behind you will encompass more than forty years of Marine Corps history from the Quantico Renaissance of the 1970s through the wars [sic] Afghanistan and Iraq. Using highly immersive displays, they will highlight moments of Marine deployments around the globe.
8. MCMOVR_230113_320.JPG: The River Campaign The fight along the Euphrates River will be used to illustrate the concept of Clear, Hold, Build. You will walk through a full-scale recreation of an Iraqi street to get a better understanding of the tactics used by Marines on patrol.
9. MCMOVR_230113_323.JPG: Forward Deployed Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990, part of Saddam's expansionist foreign policy and an expression of anger over Kuwait's refusal to cancel Iraqi debt. Fearing that Saddam would next invade Saudi Arabia, the US assembled a coalition to defend the Kingdom (Operation Desert Shield) and free Kuwait (Operation Desert Storm). By mid-August, I Marine Expeditionary Force and other US forces were in Saudi Arabia, fully ready and equipped to fight. The buildup of supplies and gear confirmed the Corps' maritime prepositioning concept.
10. MCMOVR_230113_327.JPG: The M198 howitzer that fired the first rounds supporting Operation Desert Storm's ground campaign on 21 January 1991 will be exhibited in this new gallery.
11. MCMOVR_230113_329.JPG: In August 1990, this very M60A1 tank led the way across the desert and through the berms into Kuwait.
12. MCMOVR_230113_334.JPG: Coming Soon!
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Description of Subject Matter: Various galleries here:
Making Marines
Legacy Walk
Global War On Terrorism (which, oddly enough, is mostly about Iraq)
Capturing the Hearts of Americans

Also the tavern and whatever else came up.

Legacy Walk:

Along the Legacy Walk, visitors are immersed in more than 200 years of Marine Corps history. Entering the Legacy Walk visitors are greeted by Colonial Marines perched high atop a sailing ship’s “fighting top” ready to sweep the decks of an opposing ship with withering musket fire. Only yards away, two-time Medal of Honor recipient Dan Daly fights on the Tartar Wall in Peking in 1900. Farther on, a World War I Marine locked in hand-to-hand combat with a German soldier reminds visitors that war can be intensely personal. Continuing along the Legacy Walk, a Navy corpsman works frantically to save a wounded Marine during World War II. Overhead, a de Havilland DH-4 prepares to pick up a message pouch during the “Banana Wars” of the 1920s and the UH-1E Huey helicopter in which Marine Maj Stephen Pless earned the Medal of Honor in 1968 is proudly displayed.

Photographs, maps, iconic artifacts and life-like cast figures capture the courage of individual Marines and the evolution of the Marine Corps as a whole. The Legacy Walk includes a timeline detailing the Marine’s activities at home and abroad since 1775 and introduces visitors to the cooperative relationship between the Marine Corps and the US Navy, the Marine Air-Ground Team and the many innovations developed by the Marine Corps to improve its operational capabilities. Special exhibits along the Legacy Walk explore the meaning of the Marine creed Semper Fidelis, the history behind the Marines’ Hymn, and other facets of Marine Corps culture.

For visitors with only a limited amount of time to spend at the National Museum of the Marine Corps, the Legacy Walk provides a quick initiation into the rich and storied history of the Corps. Additionally, the Legacy Walk connects the museum’s four primary exhibit galleries and provides access to both Scuttlebutt Theater and the flight simulators.

The above was from http://www.usmcmuseum.org/exhibits_LegacyWalk.asp

Global War On Terrorism:

This gallery gives visitors a glimpse onto today’s fields of battle, precipitated by the acts of terrorism suffered by the U.S. on 11 September 2001. Through photographs, combat art, maps, and text, the museum shares with the visitor powerful images from Afghanistan and Iraq. Because these conflicts are ongoing, this gallery will be frequently updated.

Marine Corps photographers assigned to Combat Camera Units capture powerful images that add depth and detail, personality and emotion to battlefield scenes. Their work also helps commanders in the field who need images to make real-time decisions and learn lessons. Since World War II, photographers armed with rifles and camera equipment have been documenting everything the field units do—from eating in makeshift mess halls to charging through combat zones. Today, 400 personnel are assigned to Combat Camera. Unless noted otherwise, Combat Camera personnel, who deploy globally wherever Marines are in the fight, took the photographs in this gallery.

War disrupts family life, and it is especially hard for children to understand why their mother, father, or siblings must deploy to places so far away. Children have their own special place in this gallery to help them understand why their loved ones have been called away.

This is a temporary exhibition. When the National Museum of the Marine Corps opens its second phase, it will dedicate a permanent gallery that fully explores the deployment of Marines during the post-Vietnam War era, including the conflicts in the Persian Gulf, the Global War on Terrorism, and the many other actions Marines have been called upon to perform.

The above was from http://www.usmcmuseum.org/exhibits_Terrorism.asp
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