Marines assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, attend the 100th Anniversary Mess Night of the battalion at the National Marine Corps Museum in Quantica, Va., July 7, 2017. During the event, Marine Corps Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, posthumously awarded the Silver Star Medal to the family of Marine Cpl. Albert Gettings, who died of wounds sustained due to enemy small-arms fire while conducting combat operations in Fallujah, Iraq in 2006. (Dept. of Defense

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