Tag: Marine Corps

The Marine Corps Water Survival School (MCWSS) serves to train Marines and sailors to perform duties as Marine Corps instructors of water survival (MCIWS).

The Marine Corps has agreed to delay the discharge of a Reserve officer accused of mishandling classified information after he sent a warning to troops in Afghanistan days before an insider attack, Marine Corps Times has learned. The Marine Corps has agreed not to discharge Maj. Jason Brezler for at least eight months while his lawsuit […]

The US Marine Corps (USMC) is preparing a system of electronic warfare capabilities on board several aircraft and other assets known as Marine Air-Ground Task Force Electronic Warfare (MAGTF EW) to replace its retiring Northrop Grumman EA-6B Prowler electronic attack aircraft, a representative for the service said on 7 March. “Under MAGTF EW the Marine […]

Watch as Marines with 3rd Marine Logistics Group, 9th Engineer Support Battalion make a hole where one wasn’t.

Force Recon was created in the 1950s. Its mission, then and now, was to go deep behind enemy lines in order to gather reconnaissance on the enemy.

The mission for the Jungle Warfare Training Center is to train Marines for combat operations in a jungle environment.

The U.S. Department of Justice has hired a retired Marine Corps Major General to head the office in charge of bringing overseas criminal defendants to the United States for trial, a task that has grown in importance as the work of U.S. prosecutors increasingly crosses national borders. Vaughn Ary, a lawyer who was in the […]

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 […]

As the U.S. Marine Corps shifts its focus to hot spots around the world, the ability to move quickly from ship to shore is receiving renewed attention. Over the years, as Marines were fighting insurgents in Afghanistan and Iraq, protecting ground troops from roadside bombs became a priority, and heavily armored trucks known as Mine […]

Posing in an apron last fall on the cover of Southern Indiana Living as she rolled dough with her 3-year-old in her lap, Laura Anne Buckingham looked like the picture of domesticity. But the 5-foot-4, 110-pound former Marine who served two tours in Iraq said she was never a “domestic diva.” She boxed in high […]

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 […]

Watch as a Marine door gunner shoots down a drone while flying in a Marine Corps Seahawk helicopter.