Imagine hiking for an hour or two through the woods, up twisting switchbacks of a dusty footpath, straining body and mind against mountain slopes, then as the vegetation clears toward the top and a vista approaches, unexpectedly into view appear a trio of retirees, nicknamed the Mountain Goats, whittling away with hand tools at a big chunk of rock, and whistling as they work.
The Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club maintains 120 miles of the famed nearby trail, including 16 camping shelters and 52 wooden bridges. While it has many volunteer maintainers, three of those club members â president Bill Neilan, membership coordinator Mark Farrell and volunteer Jim Webb â have taken to trail work more frequently than just during the clubâs weekly Monday meetups.
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1. GEN David H. Berger, USMC,
Force Design 2030 (Washington DC: March 2020).
2. GEN David H. Berger, USMC,
The 38th Commandant of the Marine Corps Commandant’s Planning Guidance (Washington, DC: 16 July 2019).
3. Department of the Navy,
Advantage at Sea: Prevailing with Integrated All-Domain Naval Power (Washington, DC: December 2020).
4. Megan Eckstein, “Marines Testing Regiment at Heart of Emerging Island-Hopping Future,”
USNI News, 4 June 2020.
5. See, for example: Dakota Wood, “The Marines: To Boldly Go Where the Corps Has Gone Before,”
The Washington Times, 24 June 2020; Frank G. Hoffman, “Still First to Fight?: Shaping the 21st Century Marine Corps,” Foreign Policy Research Institute, May 2020; Mark Cancian, “The Marine Corps’ Radical Shift toward China,” Center for Strategic International Studies, 25 March 2020; and William S. Lind, “The View from Olympus: Did the Marine Corps Just Commit Suicide?”