| PYLE | Famous US Marine (Gomer ----) |
| SEMPER | Always: "____ fidelis" motto of US Marine Corps |
| SALVAGE | Deep Water _, US marine recovery reality series (7) |
| DEEPWATER | ___ ___ Salvage, US marine recovery reality series (4,5) |
| SSGTS | US Marine E-6s |
| LAVS | US Marine amphibious vehicles, init |
| NORTH | Oliver ___, US marine assigned to the National Security Council implicated in the Irangate scandal ( |
| OLIVERNORTH | Former US Marine involved with the "arms to Iran" scandal (6,5) |
| SUMERIAN | US marine served in Iraq in former times (8) |
| NURSEMAID | Alice, for example, had daughter after US marine skipped |
| SURINAME | Turns out that US marine is in a South American state (8) |
| COLONEL | Former US Marine officer shortly to take off 26 from Colne (7,5) (see 9D) |
| RACHELCARSON | US marine biologist whose 1962 book Silent Spring is credited with advancing the global environmental movement |
| OSWALD | Lee Harvey -, former US marine accused of John F Kennedy's assassination (6) |
| IWOJIMA | Which Pacific Japanese island was captured by the US Marine Corps in 1945, and returned to Japan in 1968? (3,4) |
| RLEE | US Marine who became an actor, _. ___ Ermey (b.1944 d.2018) |
| FIDELIS | Latin motto of the US Marine Corps, meaning 'always faithful' (6,7) |
| GUNNERY | ___ sergeant, non-commissioned officer ranking above a staff sergeant in the US Marine Corps (7) |
| JARHEAD | 2005 war film based on US Marine Anthony Swofford's 2003 Gulf War memoir of the same name |
| LEATHERNECK | US marine hit in front of part of body (11) |
