Sergeant major ronald l. green biography
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Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps Ronald L. Green, USMC (Ret.) - Distinguished Sea Service Awardee - Senior Enlisted
Sergeant Major Ronald L. Green USMC (Ret.)
It is with deep respect and appreciation that the Naval Order of the United States is proud to announce that Sergeant Major Ronald L. Green USMC (Ret.) has been selected to receive its Distinguished Sea Service Award-Senior Enlisted for
Sergeant Major Green was born in in Jackson, Missippi. He enlisted in the Marine Corps in and completed basic training at MCRD Parris Island, SC. During his 36 year career of active service in the Corps, he received meritorious promotions to Private First Class, Lance Corporal, Corporal, Sergeant and Staff Sergeant. He completed assignments in field artillery, as a drill instructor and Assistant Marine Officer Instructor (ROTC), First Sergeant, and as Sergeant Major at HQ, Marine Corps Henderson Hall and I MEF. He deployed to Somalia with Operation Restore Hope in , South America (UNI
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The next SMMC: Sgt. Maj. Ronald Green's rise to the top
More than two years before Sgt. Maj. Ronald Green was interviewed by Commandant Gen. Joseph Dunford to become the Corps' next top enlisted leader, the two shared a drink from Devil Dog Fountain, a favorite pilgrimage site in France marking the site of the Marines' historic World War I rout of the German Army at Belleau Wood. Now Green and Dunford are again marking history as they prepare to lead the Marine Corps together.
The encounter at the fabled fountain was the last meeting between Dunford, then the assistant commandant, and Green, the top enlisted leader with the California-based I Marine Expeditionary Force, until Green was interviewed by the general in December.
Sources close to Dunford säga the commandant, who selected Green from a pool of fem seasoned and highly qualified sergeants major, was impressed the year Marine still had a "fire to make things happen" and had an evident enthusiasm for caring for Mar
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Sergeant Major Ronald L. Green, USMC (Ret)
Sergeant Major Green retired in from the United States Marine Corps after thirty-six and a half years of active service. He is a native of Jackson, Mississippi and attended recruit training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina, in November Upon graduation, he was meritoriously promoted to Private First Class and reported to Hotel Battery, 3rd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, Camp Pendleton, California, in March for duty as a field artillery cannoneer. He was meritoriously promoted to Lance Corporal in September
Lance Corporal Green reported to Okinawa, Japan in November and was assigned to Delta Battery, 2nd Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment. He was meritoriously promoted to Corporal in March and sergeant in August He attended Nuclear Field Artillery School in October and earned the additional military occupational specialty of Field Artillery Nuclear Projectileman.
In May , Sergeant Green reported to Marine