Category: Marine Corps

It seems it has become the modus operandi of the Marine Corps to make examples out of its servicemembers for the sake of better PR.

The Commandant of the Marine Corps relieved Neary of duty due to a “loss of trust and confidence in his ability to serve in command.”

Amphibious operations training means high-risk training, but will it later pay dividends, or is it simply keeping a dying capability afloat?

9/11 showed how difficult it is to predict the needs of the battlespace, but it’s hard to imagine the ACV is well-suited for future warfare.

AAVs are central to the mission of the Corps, but with no major amphibious landings in sixty years, it risks being dismantled or assimilated. 

YAT-YAS is the amtracker’s motto. After all, it succinctly describes the amphibious nature and mission of the Marine Corps.

This documentary film will follow the MARSOC 3 from the night of the alleged incident, through their trial and the ultimate outcome.

Almost 80 years after WWII, U.S. Marines have returned to the island of Peleliu, to remove UXOs and test the mettle of this new special EOD unit.

Capers has been awarded some of the nation’s highest honors for his meritorious 22-year long service, including a nomination for the Medal of Honor.

The Marines’ 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines is on the leading edge of implementing the first whole blood resuscitation program into a conventional war-fighting unit. The program is called “Valkyrie.” The Special Operations community has been utilizing whole blood resuscitation for battlefield casualties for some time. Now it is the Marines’ turn to take advantage of […]

Marine Raiders, Gunnery Sergeant Daniel Draher, Gunnery Sergeant Joshua Negron, and Chief Petty Officer Eric Gilmet, and their families are in a fight for their lives. Each of those men — the MARSOC 3 as they are called — is being sent to a general court-martial for crimes they did not commit. On June 26, […]

The sunken amphibious assault vehicle (AAV), in which seven missing Marines and one sailor drowned in a tragic accident on July 30, was located. The vessel was found shortly after the search was called off and the Marine Corps and Navy had begun the process of notifying the families of the deceased. The accident had happened […]