BELLEAU LABSNamed for
Belleau Wood.
The Marines held Belleau Wood by knowing the ground better than anyone. We build the decision layer for government markets the same way: read everything, score what matters, prove it. Washington, DC.
Three weeks in June, 1918.
In the spring of 1918 the German army broke the French line and drove for Paris. By the first of June the road ran through a mile-square hunting preserve called Belleau Wood. The Marine brigade of the U.S. 2nd Division was rushed forward to plug the gap. A French officer advised them to fall back. Captain Lloyd Williams gave the answer the Corps still teaches: “Retreat? Hell, we just got here.”
On June 6 the Marines attacked through waist-high wheat into machine-gun fire. The Corps took 1,087 casualties that day, more than in all its battles before that day combined. First Sergeant Dan Daly, already twice awarded the Medal of Honor, took his men over the top shouting: “Come on, you sons of bitches. Do you want to live forever?”
The wood changed hands six times in three weeks. Attack, counterattack, again. On June 26 the report finally went up the line: “Woods now U.S. Marine Corps entirely.” The fight cost 9,777 American casualties, 1,811 of them dead. France renamed the forest Bois de la Brigade de Marine, the Wood of the Marine Brigade. It carries that name today.
Co-founder & CEO
Aaron built Porsche race cars at Texas Track Craft, then joined the Marines as an infantry mortarman and went on to lead a 13-Marine squad on two overseas deployments. After the Corps came applied mathematics at Columbia and defense-tech diligence as an investment banking analyst.
Co-founder & COO
Taylor served as a B-52 avionics technician in the Air Force, working on nuclear-capable aircraft and supporting New START arms-control inspections, then ran his own high-voltage automation firm on drilling rigs across the Permian Basin before moving into semiconductor manufacturing at Intel’s advanced-packaging R&D site. He founded Echo 4 Advisory, his own federal AI consultancy, designing Palantir Foundry and AIP solutions for state and federal clients. He’s finishing international relations at Columbia.