1 At Camp Leatherneck, cases of bottled water are piled high under a makeshift shelter on Jan. 13.

2 A leatherneck or a grunt do not sound like nice names to call someone.

3 A leatherneck or a grunt do not names to call someone.

4 US Marine Lance Corporal Jarvis Norfleet from the Bronx, New York walks with his weapon on June 26, 2009 in Camp Leatherneck, Afghanistan.

5 US Marines from the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, 1st Battalion 5th Marines board helicopters at Camp Leatherneck for a night air assault in Afghanistan's Helmand province Thursday July 2, 2009.

6 He was airlifted to the US base at Camp Leatherneck but died there of his wounds, the 19th American to lose his life in Helmand that month at the height of the fighting.

7 A US Army soldier walks past a de-mining robot named after the computer animated character "Wall-E" at Camp Leatherneck in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, March 10, 2010.

8 2010; body-building supplements, on sale at a MCX (Marine CorpsExchange) shop at Camp Leatherneck on Jan. 12.

9 I did not know his nephew Jack became a leatherneck.

10 US Marines from the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade rest inside a tent at Camp Leatherneck in Afghanistan's Helmand province Tuesday June 9, 2009.

11 A member of the United States Marines also has a strange name leatherneck.

12 We will oversee the strategic implementation of decisions with a finely developed set of metrics, says Jones in the patois peculiar to those who spend 40 years as a leatherneck .