Marine Corps to spend $50 million on saving tortoises

The Marine Corps is gearing up to airlift 1,185 desert tortoises from prospective combat training grounds to nearby terrain where they won’t be crushed by military equipment. One of the largest translocations of tortoises ever to be undertaken is expected to launch this month as mitigation for congressional approval to expand the Marine Corps’ Air […]

Hawaii Marine dies after boat capsizes

A Marine died early Saturday morning after the boat he was in capsized near the Kaneohe Marine Corps Base Hawaii, a base spokesman confirmed. According to the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, the 17-foot boat overturned with three men onboard near the north side of the base at around 2:15 a.m. Two of the men were able to […]

Border patrol claims to have no info on El Chapo sneaking into U.S.

Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán allegedly snuck into the United States twice last year while on the run from authorities following his dramatic prison escape. The cartel boss’s daughter, Rosa Isela Guzmán Ortiz, said that shortly after “El Chapo” sat down for his Rolling Stone Magazine interview with Sean Penn, he escaped capture […]

Fallen Chattanooga Marine foundation accused of fraud

A company called Sandboxx has suspended its donations to Marines & Mickey after allegations of fraud. Sandboxx has a mobile app that helps friends and families send letters to loved ones in basic training. The company’s revenue comes from that app, and founder Sam Meek said he liked that Marines & Mickey helped allow parents see their children […]

Another Marine brutally beaten in Washington DC

Decorated former Marine Chris Marquez wasn’t the only Iraq War vet brutally beaten in an attack on Feb. 12 in Washington. Not far from where Marquez was assaulted on that frigid night, 35-year-old Michael Schroeder, also a Marine, was dragged between two cars in the Glover Park neighborhood and brutally beaten, his family told WUSA9. Police […]

Court documents unsealed and reveal Boston Bomber’s Statements to FBI

Newly unsealed documents reveal that Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told FBI agents that he and his brother picked their own spots to place their bombs and that each of them set off his own device. Tsarnaev talked to FBI agents at a hospital where was undergoing treatment for gunshot wounds. The interviewed him six […]

Rookie Cop and Marine Corp Reservist shot and killed by an Army Staff Sergeant

The Army staff sergeant charged with killing one Prince William County police officer and injuring two others on Saturday opened fire as they arrived at his front door to investigate a domestic altercation, the Prince William County police chief said Sunday. Chief Stephan M. Hudson said at an afternoon news conference that Ronald Williams Hamilton, […]

Pentagon testing ‘mind-controlled’ drone technology

The Pentagon is attempting what was, until recently, an impossible technological feat—developing a high-bandwidth neural interface that would allow people to beam data from their minds to external devices and back. That’s right—a brain modem. One that could allow a soldier to, for example, control a drone with his mind. This seemingly unlikely piece of technology […]

Marine vet confronts Bill Clinton about Benghazi

Former President Bill Clinton was campaigning for his wife Hillary in South Carolina when a Marine veteran stood up and asked him about Benghazi. In the video above, the veteran explains that he has conducted eight years of active duty, with two tours in Iraq. “I have met with many of these Gold Star parents […]

Former Marine sniper works with police to stop ‘hit man’ request

A Marine veteran known for an embarrassing wartime controversy is being credited with helping police in Tennessee stop his fiancée’s alleged plan to hire a hit man to kill her ex-boyfriend. Joseph Chamblin, a former scout sniper whose military career came to an end after a video surfaced showing him and other Marines urinating on enemy corpses, […]

Captain Crunch: Where military guns go to die

Featured photo courtesy of Fox News and Army.mil It’s the place where military weapons go to die. Once a weapon is marked for destruction, it is sent to Anniston Army Depot where it will more than likely spend its final moments being chomped apart by the military’s Grim Reaper for guns: “Captain Crunch.” The massive […]