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Articles by Paul Merzlak

U.S. Marine Corps (Mark Fayloga)

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Paul Merzlak
November 2010
In the more than two centuries since its creation, the Marine Corps has always been there when America needed it. Marines have found themselves in numerous grim spots, where prospects ...
U.S. Coast Guard (Bob Laura)

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Paul Merzlak
August 2010
The U.S. Coast Guard is one of our great but perhaps underappreciated national treasures. Most of the time the service performs its mission in its usual quiet, professional manner. Only ...
DOD (ARLO K. ABRAHAMSON)

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Paul Merzlak
February 2010
As we were preparing this issue in late December, the world marked the 30th anniversary of the Soviet Union's 1979 invasion of Afghanistan. Our lead story this issue is a ...

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Paul Merzlak
January 2010
Since the dawn of naval aviation, a raging debate recurs, usually around budget time, over the value and practicality of building and maintaining extremely expensive aircraft carriers. The defenders of ...
U.S. Navy (Alan Warner)

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Paul Merzlak
December 2009
This month we revisit a topic that we last looked at in detail in our December 2005 issue—simulation and training. Four years may seem like a short span, but in ...
NARA

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Paul Merzlak
November 2009
This month we celebrate the 234th birthday of one the proudest, most elite fighting forces in the world: the United States Marine Corps. Since 1775 the Corps has been in ...
u.s. coast guard (Cory mendenhall)

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Paul Merzlak
October 2009
As this issue of Proceedings went to press, Americans were commemorating the eighth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. It seems not a day has passed since that tragic event ...
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Paul Merzlak
September 2009
In early August, during the first hour of my first day back in the office after a week's vacation, our communications director, Chas Henry, burst into my office in a ...
u.s. coast guard (brandon blackwell)

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Paul Merzlak
August 2009
If it's true that you really don't appreciate what you have until it's gone, then we could find ourselves saying that about the U.S. Coast Guard someday. Many citizens of ...
REUTERS (Kevin Lamarque)

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Paul Merzlak
July 2009
We never lack for feedback from our readers and membership. While it's always nice to receive a "well done," we are more likely to get writers who disagree, often strongly ...