Marine Corps

An American volunteer with the Kurdish Peshmerga caught a Squirtle near Mosul, Iraq and subsequently challenged Daesh (ISIS) to a Pokémon battle.

The Warfighting Labs identifies possible challenges of the future and develops new warfighting concepts and tests new ideas to help develop equipment that meets the challenges of the future operating environment.

In an effort to maintain the new status quo of cutting standards everywhere in the name of equality and “progress”, the Marine Corps announced major changes over the Fourth of July holiday weekend regarding how much it will allow service members to weigh, and the biggest shift comes for women: going forward “larger” ladies will […]

A Marine infantry company is putting new gear to the test here that can sustain and protect small teams deployed on their own for weeks on end. Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines kicked off the yearlong experiment here this summer. The grunts and some support Marines got their hands on 40 new pieces of gear the Marine […]

A Yuma, Arizona-based Marine AV-8B Harrier squadron will officially be redesignated Thursday as it welcomes brand-new F-35B Joint Strike Fighters. Marine Attack Squadron 211 will be the second operational F-35B squadron for the Marine Corps, coming online 11 months after the service announced initial operating capability for the aircraft last July. It joins Yuma-based Marine […]

The Navy via DFAS-CL went as mad as my ex-wife on payday with the checkbook and mismanaged accounting and spending across the board.

Marines with Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 462 conducted a GAU-21 weapons shoot from CH-53E Super Stallions.

WASHINGTON — New physical standards established so women can compete for combat posts in the Marine Corps have weeded out many of the female hopefuls. But they’re also disqualifying some men, according to data obtained by The Associated Press. In the last five months, 6 out of 7 female recruits — and 40 out of […]

Marine Corps pilots are getting a chance to see how the ground-pounders live in a new immersive program designed to bring the air and ground elements of the Corps’ fighting machine closer for better collaboration. Called the aviator immersion program, the initiative aims to have one pilot from each squadron within Camp Pendleton, California’s Marine […]

The aircraft, as wide as a football field and as tall as a five-story building, was headed to MacDill on July 20.

When it instead set down at the small field on the southern tip of Davis Islands, residents could feel the vibrations and hear the roar.

Nearly three dozen Marines will square off this summer in a bid to become the Corps’ ultimate tactical athletes — and this competition is as hardcore as it gets. The High Intensity Tactical Training Ultimate Tactical Athlete Championship will include roughly 30 events such as a 100-yard, uphill climb with an 80-pound pack to retrieve […]

The Marine Corps’ first two Kaman K-MAX Helicopters have arrived and settled at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona. The K-MAX will be added to MCAS Yuma’s already vast collection of military air assets, and will utilize the station’s ranges to strengthen training, testing, and operations across the Marine Corps.

Chief K-MAX pilot, Jerry McCawley, explains what makes the helicopter so unique.