Marine Corps

MARSOC Fox Company received an official “gag order” preventing any communication with the media—until now.

An international competition at Fort Chaffee is testing the skills of snipers from all over the world. The Sniper Championship is an annual event to promote sniper training. These championships offer the Army, National Guard, Marine Corps, Air Force, and foreign allies the opportunity to test sniper skills and weapon systems in a battle-focused environment. […]

Retired Marine general James “Mad Dog” Mattis, who hung up his uniform three years ago, batted away speculation about running for President on Friday—but didn’t rule it out. Mattis—call sign “Chaos”—was fielding questions from the audience at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington following a talk on Iran, but the first query […]

With the counterinsurgency slog through Iraq and Afghanistan in the rear-view mirror, the Corps is retooling the way it trains Marines to deal with the threat of improvised explosive devices around the world. The Marine Corps Engineer School recently developed a streamlined counter-IED course to provide deploying units with more hands-on training and up-to-date intelligence tailored […]

General James “Mad Dog” Mattis, Marine, former U.S. Central Command, and the only chance we have at placing a capable and competent leader in the White House. It’s unlikely to happen, but we can believe. On Friday, General Mattis will be speaking in Washington D.C., at the Middle East Center for Strategic and International Studies. […]

An undisclosed number of U.S. Marines are assisting emergency crews in southern Japan after two deadly earthquakes have plunged the region into chaos. At least four MV-22 Ospreys — with four others on standby — have joined the relief effort, according to a news release distributed by the U.S. military on Sunday. The aircraft are assigned […]

The Marine Corps has received its first request from an enlisted female Marine to join the infantry ranks, an official confirmed today. Marine Capt. Philip Kulczewski said the Corps had received a lateral move request from a female Marine to join a unit ground combat Marine occupational specialty. “These requests take time, and to help […]

The Marine Corps Jungle Warfare Training Center in Okinawa Japan had to be one of my favorite deployments. Learning how to operate and survive in a jungle environment is vastly different than a desert or woodland environment. There are also threats native to the jungle that you must be aware of. I remember attending a […]

The United States has deployed tactical aircraft capable of attacking ISIS’s ability to communicate closer to the front lines of the battle against the terrorist group.  The U.S. European Command announced a squadron of Marine Corps EA-6B Prowler aircraft has been sent to Incirlik Air Base in Turkey to support operations against ISIS. In addition […]

TRIANGLE, Va. (AP) — In October 1943, as war raged in Europe, a student pilot crashed an SBD Dauntless dive bomber into Lake Michigan during a training mission. The pilot was rescued. The aircraft sank to the lake bottom, where it would remain for half a century. By the time the National Museum of the […]

Read LTG Kearney’s words to see how he falsely condemned seven MARSOC Marines in the media years ago, and continues to do so on the lecture circuit.

Scoring a first class on your next physical or combat fitness test could get tougher as the Marine Corps looks to revamp its fitness and body composition standards. Under the proposed plan, most males Marines will have to do 23 pull-ups in order to earn the max score on that portion of the PFT, up from 20 under existing rules. […]