Two of his three corps commanders followed.
His corps commander, Maj.
Shrubbs began service as a 17-year-old in 1944, ending it as the corps' assistant commandant in 1992, the year it ceased operations.
The corps ruled under successive commandants until 1810, when it was recalled, and Lachlan Macquarie arrived with his own regiment.
General Greene was promoted to four-star rank and commandant of the corps in 1964, when American marines in Vietnam numbered only in the hundreds.
The Marine Corps has conclusively determined that the Dec. 11 crash of a V-22 Osprey that killed four marines was a result of hydraulic and computer failures, not the aircraft's hybrid tilt-rotor design, the commandant of the corps said today.
Troops do hear what their officers say, and the commandant of the Marine corps has been telling everyone who will listen that he likes D.A.D.T., as he thinks Marines do.
Gen. James L. Jones, who is leaving his post as Marine Corps commandant to become commander of all American forces in Europe, said earlier this week that 65,000 to 75,000 marines would be involved in any military action against Iraq.
The commission, whose chairman was the retired Gen. James L. Jones, the former Marine Corps commandant and NATO commander, noted that the Iraqi army was making strides but added that "for the foreseeable future" Iraqi troops would continue to rely on American help with logistics, equipment, training and support from air and artillery units.
