In 2011, two years before I show up to Officer Candidate School, the Marine Corps changes its uniform order to allow …
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John Vrolyk
John Vrolyk is a writer, national security policy wonk, and former active duty Marine infantry officer. He is a veteran of the defeat ISIS campaign in Syria and a peacetime rotation to Darwin, Australia. He has published essays on great power competition, gun control in America, and sailing the New England coast.