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Marines may create new Infantry Scout career field
Marine Corps leaders are considering making Scouts a Primary Military Occupational Specialty, similar to Machine Gunners and Mortarmen, said a senior Marine commander in charge of training.
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Refusing evacuation, this Marine packed dirt into his wound and continued to fight
Conducted from March 19 to April 19, 1967, Operation Prairie III was one of a series of movements by the 3rd Marine Division aimed at engaging and eliminating the communist units arriving in South...
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The USS Devilfish suffered the only kamikaze attack on a US submarine
By October 1944, the Imperial Japanese Navy was on the defensive. Allied forces in the Pacific had pushed back the gains Japan made in the years following its surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.
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The Marine Corps is overhauling its Recon training
The Marine Corps is rebooting how it trains Reconnaissance Marines, with an overhaul of the program’s notoriously tough training curriculum.
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Navy says aviators can no longer command amphibious warships
In a major break with tradition, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle has directed that the Navy ships that transport Marines into war zones be commanded by surface warfare officers instead of.
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Marines in hot barracks getting portable air conditioners
As the hot summer months approach, nearly 20,000 Marines live in barracks that lack working air conditioning. While plans are underway for a Corps-wide overhaul of barracks that will include climate..
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The Marines may need 40 amphibious warfare ships, general says
The Marines will probably need at least eight more amphibious warfare ships to meet their goal of roughly 40 in order to keep three Marine Expeditionary Units deployed at the same time.
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How a band of Marines staved off the British and helped save the Declaration of Independence
In the afternoon of Aug. 24, 1814, First Lady Dolley Madison wrote in her journal: “We have had a battle…near Bladensburg, and I am still here within sound of the cannon!
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A firefight is too late to start trusting the new Corps, say senior Marines
Every Marine knows that the “Old Corps” had it worse. The rocks they slept on were harder; the MREs they ate were (somehow) worse; they did it all with iron sights. You get the idea.
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This is why the 1st Marine Division ships out to ‘Waltzing Matilda’
When considering the music that we’d want to play as we ship out to a combat zone, very few of us would think of choosing a 19th century Australian folk song about a hobo who stole a sheep.
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Marines now have 12 months to meet shaving rules, even with painful skin condition
Marines now have 12 months to be clean-shaven, even if they are receiving medical treatment for a skin condition, according to a new policy released Friday.
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How the F-35 is changing Marine airpower
After decades of flying the AV-8B Harrier II and the F/A-18 Hornet, the Marine Corps is going all in on the F-35. Besides being stealthy, the jet has far more advanced sensing and data-sharing tools..
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How these Navy submariners worked to save themselves after their sub sank
A white T-shirt represented the last chance for 38 submariners. Without it, they could not have survived much longer in the crippled U.S. Navy submarine S-5.
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Used as an ‘individual target’ by the Germans, this Medal of Honor recipient kept up the fight
On Nov. 8, 1942, the United States opened a new front against Germany, Italy and Vichy France when its forces landed in Morocco and Algeria.
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Valor awards for Marines at Abbey Gate upgraded, Pentagon announces
The Marine Corps has upgraded valor awards received by Marines who guarded Hamid Karzai International Airport’s Abbey Gate in Kabul when a suicide bomber struck on Aug.
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Another Conflict Roils the Middle East. A Marine Warns the War Will Come Home
I kicked in doors in the Middle East; I watched friends bleed. I know what war really looks like when the cameras leave and the speeches end.
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This is how specially trained Marines with a Maritime Raid Force seize a vessel at sea
On Sunday, Marines from the amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli fast-roped from helicopters onto the deck of the Iranian cargo ship M/V Touska to take custody of the vessel, the first seizure of the..
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Marines seize Iranian cargo ship, Trump says
U.S. Marines took custody of an Iranian-flagged cargo ship that tried to get past the U.S. naval blockade, President Donald announced Sunday afternoon.
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7 hours of grit and determination that changed the Civil War
Improvise, adapt, and overcome. This is a mantra of the U.S. Marine Corps , but throughout American history, U.S. troops have demonstrated their capacity for extraordinary innovation and...
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We Were Marines Who Did Everything Together. Then My Name Appeared in His Suicide Note
Illustration by Kim Vo " /> I joined the Marine Corps because junior college didn’t take. A semester and a half of C-minus ambition told me I needed something louder, something sharper.
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Marine Corps sets timelines for responding to missing personnel
When Marines don’t show up for work, their units are now directed to make “reasonable” efforts to contact them. If that doesn’t help, officials should begin checking in with local police, hospitals...
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Marines on way to Middle East seen using rifles with anti-drone smart scope
The U.S. military recently published photos of Marines in a unit headed to the Middle East equipped with an advanced optic designed to help them shoot down small drones .
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The US Navy’s first submarine was a hand-cranked wooden egg
The American Revolution was not only a political and military struggle for independence. It was also a period of remarkable experimentation.
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From Marine to esports entrepreneur
After serving eight years in the Marine Corps, John Crossman transitioned out with leadership experience, and a strong foundation of discipline and resilience.
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That time the Air Force proposed making a ‘gay bomb’
In 1994, U.S. Air Force’s Wright Laboratory in Ohio were pressing the bounds to the question: Fellas, is it gay to fight for your country?
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Here’s what Marine Expeditionary Units are designed to do
When a crisis erupts in the Caribbean, Middle East, or elsewhere, a Marine Expeditionary Unit, or MEU, is often tasked with responding.
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Marine corporal charged with stealing and selling a Javelin missile
A Marine previously assigned to Camp Pendleton, California, is accused of stealing at least one Javelin anti-tank missile system and 5.
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The ‘March of Folly’: America’s headlong lurch into Vietnam began with just 3,500 Marines
On March 8, 1965, 3,500 Marines of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade — the first combat troops in Vietnam — waded ashore to the coastal city of Da Nang.
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These Marine Raider veterans are now playable characters in ‘Battlefield 6’
Prime Hall, Don Tran and Rick Briere all served together in the 1st Raider Battalion — a Marine Corps special operations unit that traces its origins back to World War II.
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