US Marine Corps News

The U.S. Marine Corps expects to find no significant impact from its proposal to expand training facilities at Pohakuloa Training Area.

The State Civil Service Commission has fallen down on the job and failed to help hundreds of qualified military veterans get hired into positions with Pennsylvania's state agencies, Auditor General Jack Wagner ...

A Navy F/A-18C pilot was acting in "good faith" and with the "best of intentions" when he mistakenly fired on a friendly position in Afghanistan and killed a British Marine in 2006, according to a recent report ...

Aaron Allen and his childhood buddies had a special tattoo on their biceps: the Chinese symbol for "warrior." And despite his mother's wishes, Allen, 24, had decided by 16 that he would join the Marines.

Stress on U.S. troops from repeated combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan is 'extraordinary' and may be worsening even as fighting eases in Iraq, the military's top officer says.

In an interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday, Adm. Mike Mullen expressed hope that the strain will be relieved gradually as the Marine Corps and Army expand the pool of available forces.

The Marines, for example, created an additional battalion this fall and plan to add another by February, Mullen said. That will allow them to 'feed the fight as well as relieve the stress,' he said.

Lance Hering of Boulder, missing from the Marine Corps since 2006, appeared in Clallam County Superior Court on Monday afternoon.

Jesse Nieto doesn't wear his emotions on his sleeve. Instead, the retired gunnery sergeant uses car decals to express his contempt for the terrorists who killed his son, Engineman 2nd Class Marc Ian Nieto, ...

Military officials say a Wahpeton Reserve Marine unit will deploy to Iraq next year.

A Marine who sued Rep. John Murtha for defamation urged a federal appeals court Tuesday to order the Pennsylvania Democrat to testify under oath in the case.

Marine Sgt. Major Jeff McKeone smooths the flag during the memorial ceremony as students, family and community members watch Monday morning at Santa Ynez Valley Union High School./Len Wood/Staff Before he left ...

How quiet have things gotten in western Iraq, once known as the "Wild, Wild West" and one of the most violent regions of the country? Some Hawai'i Marines have hung out the "gone fishin' " sign in the Fallujah ...

Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn plans to fly to Poland to present the mother of a U.S. Marine killed in Afghanistan with her son's Purple Heart medal.

A Marine accused of faking his own disappearance in Colorado in 2006 remains in custody in Port Angeles, and military authorities reportedly have declined to come and get him.

LEWISTON, Maine - A man who shed 140 pounds to join the Marines is headed to Parris Island, S.C., to begin boot camp.

Eastern North Carolina has a big task in front of it to prepare for the coming influx of Marines, civilian DoD workers and family members.

The second Ghurkha soldier in less than a month has been killed in Afghanistan after a massive roadside bomb tore through his 25-ton Warrior fighting vehicle.

Jim Crall holds a photo of his son, former Marine Lincoln Crall, at his home in Boulder on Thursday.

A Marine accused of faking his disappearance to avoid returning to his unit has been arrested in Washington state.

The election of Democrat Barack Obama as the next American president has left onlookers questioning the future of US defense spending... but aerospace analysis firm Forecast International predicts spending ...

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