Tag: Marine Corps

Marines with Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force and Army Special Forces operators completed joint training exercises in Baumholder, Germany.

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 […]

Military helicopter designers at Bell Helicopter in Fort Worth, Texas, are preparing to build 24 new-build AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters and associated avionics for the U.S. Marine Corps under terms of a $55.9 million U.S. Navy contract announced Tuesday. Officials of the Naval Air Systems Command are asking Bell Helicopter, a Textron Inc. company, to buy long-lead […]

Marine aviation squadrons are suffering more than ground units after 15 years of war and deep budget cuts, Commandant Gen. Robert Neller told lawmakers on Tuesday. “We would — as a goal — like to have 80 percent of our units ready to go,” Neller said at House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee hearing. “We’re not quite there, particularly on the […]

Watch as Marine Corps helicopter crew chiefs go through door-gunner close air support training aboard UH-1Y Super Hueys.

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 […]

Featured photo courtesy of Sgt. Emmanuel Ramos (I MEF) SAN DIEGO — The Marine Corps is the nation’s premier expeditionary force. It responds to global crises and defends America’s interests abroad in an ever changing environment. To ensure this force-in-readiness, senior officials use a realistic evaluation of worldwide threats to make recommendations that influence policy, […]

Featured photo courtesy of Sgt. Reece E. Lodder/Marine Corps MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Va. — As the Marine Corps closes in on the end of a years-long drawdown that involved shedding thousands of troops annually, there aren’t as many leathernecks to fill some of the most vital roles in the service. That means leaders will have to […]

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 […]

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, […]

Featured photo courtesy of Marine Corps Times MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Va. — “I haven’t met someone yet who I haven’t been able to train to do a pull-up.” Major Misty Posey, the plans officer for Manpower Integration, developed a pull-up training program to help all Marines improve their pull-ups no matter their starting point, and says she […]

Watch as Marines and sailors conduct combined arms training in order to sustain combat proficiency to support contingency operations.