Sergeant Major Michael Burke, U.S. Marine Corps (Retired), retired in 2018 after serving as squadron sergeant major of Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 13 in Yuma, Arizona.

Articles by Michael Burke

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By Sergeant Major Mike Burke, U.S. Marine Corps (Retired), and Major Nicholas Nethery, U.S. Army
December 2020
The winner of the Fiction Essay Contest. In a future war, Marines solicit a private contractor to fund an airstrike.

Marines Don’t Eat Alone

Sergeant Major Michael Burke, U.S. Marine Corps
January 2018
A sergeant major reflects on the ways Marines can get in trouble, and how many of those ways involve a lone Marine. Getting Marines to look out for each other ...