Northern Strike

U.S. Marine Corps Col. Joseph Katz, chief of staff, Marine Forces Reserve, left, and Sgt. Maj. Kabiru Labaran, command senior enlisted leader, Headquarters Battalion, Marine Forces Reserve and Marine Forces South, render a salute to the grave of Gen. Robert Barrow during a wreath laying ceremony in St. Francisville, L.A., Nov. 10, 2024.Barrow served as the 27th Commandant of the Marine Corps and was the first to be buried in his hometown and not in Arlington National Cemetery. Each year on the Marine Corps Birthday, Marines with Marine Forces Reserve lay a wreath on his grave. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Scott Jenkins)