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Montford Point Marine

Burley

In 1941, Executive Order 8802 prohibited racial discrimination in the defense industry and armed forces. The following year, Camp Montford Point at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina became the first training depot for Black Marine recruits. More than 20,000 men trained there by 1949, earning their place in the Corps at a time when the institution itself was still working out what equality was supposed to look like in practice. Congress awarded the Montford Point Marines a Congressional Gold Medal in 2012. Montford Point Marine is the fourth entry in Cornell and Diehl's Black Servicemen Series, a line of blends created as explicit tributes to African American military service. The blend is built around dark fired Burley, which distinguishes it immediately from the standard Burley base of something like Haunted Bookshop. Dark firing is a curing process that uses low smoldering hardwood smoke over days or weeks, producing a leaf with considerably more depth and body than air cured Burley alone. Perique and Latakia complete the trio, adding their respective contributions of spice and campfire smoke. The result is a full, natural tobacco blend with no casing and no flavoring, carrying the same straightforward character as the men it honors. Ribbon cut. Medium full strength.