Marine Corps

According to Army and Air Force officials, the isolation caused by the coronavirus pandemic is adding stress and contributing to suicides.

Cpl. Brady Rick, a sniper with 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit’s (MEU) Amphibious Raid Force, sights in with an M110 semi-automatic sniper system.

In our newest SOFREP Book, we ride shotgun with Christian Dattwyler through Marine recruit and grunt training an his assignment to the fleet.

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.

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Matthew Octaviano holds the company guidon during a deactivation ceremony on Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune at Stone Bay, North Carolina, Aug. 25, 2020.

Decorated Special Operations Independent Duty Corpsman, U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Eric Gilmet, has been prejudicially rejected by the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill’s Graduate School. The university determined that his “alleged behavior is more likely than not to pose a danger to members of the University community, University property, or the […]

In January of 2016, I was a Marine Corps veteran. I was looking for a way to reconnect with the military community and I stumbled upon an interesting link for a job posting. SOFREP was offering a tryout for a full-time position as a contributing editor. The rules were simple: submit three articles and the […]

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 military has called off the search for the seven Marines and one sailor who went missing after a deadly accident off the coast of San Diego on Thursday. The eight troops are now presumed dead after an exhaustive 40-hour search yielded no results.  Fifteen Marines and one sailor were onboard an amphibious assault vehicle […]

A routine training exercise turned deadly for a Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF) unit on Thursday afternoon. One Marine is dead and others are missing in an AAV (amphibious assault vehicle) mishap off San Clemente Island in southern California. “1 Marine has died, 8 service members remain missing and 2 were injured after an AAV mishap […]

Lance Cpl. Jacob Maze, a field radio operator with 3rd Force Reconnaissance Training Platoon, 4th Marine Division participates in a water survival screening at Camp Shelby, Miss., on July 19, 2020. This training will ultimately prepare them for lengthy and difficult amphibious missions in any clime and place. Marines with Marine Forces Reserve continue to […]