Marine Corps

Rolls-Royce has received a potential $117.7 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to supply 50 AE1107C turboshaft engines and related spares for integration with the U.S. Marine Corps’ and Japanese government’s fleet of MV-22 Osprey aircraft. The Naval Air Systems Command awarded the contract modification to exercise an option under a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract, the Defense Department said Tuesday. The AE 1107 engine works to power the USMC’s […]

A Marine vet who served in Iraq and Afghanistan became the target of an assault while eating at a McDonald’s Friday night in northwest DC. Metro PD is now investigating the incident and looking for five suspects between the ages of 16 and 21. According to the Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF), the group of […]

Amid the Department of Defense’s historic change to open all combat jobs to women, the Marine Corps accepted the first female applicants to their sister service branch’s special operations command (MARSOC). An average of 11 months of grueling training and the mastery of seven weapons are just some of the hurdles these candidates will need to […]

By Rowan Scarborough – The Washington Times – Monday, February 15, 2016 At a time when U.S. special operations are devising plans for the mission of accepting women into the male domains of SEALs, Green Berets andArmy Rangers, the terrorist-fighting community is facing a looming readiness problem. The new challenge is tucked inside President Obama’s 2017 defense budget. […]

Here is an inside look into Marine One, the president’s helicopter (one of many, accompanied by a small fleet of decoys).

Although MARSOC is still pretty new within SOCOM, they have distinguished themselves by training Afghan soldiers on the front lines.

The Iraqi army’s recent triumph in Ramadi made it clear that its soldiers aren’t cut from the same cloth as those who ditched their gear and fled in terror from the Islamic State group in 2014 — and Marines have been a pivotal part of that transformation. Hundreds of Marines have been quietly deploying over the past 16 […]

Fourteen Marine Raiders are getting ready to step off one month from today on a 770-mile ruck march to commemorate their fallen brothers on the one-year anniversary of a Black Hawk crash that killed 11 troops off the coast of Florida. On March 11, the group, Marine Raider Memorial March, will depart the crash site […]

Elizabeth Davis became a widow before she was 30 when her husband, Marine 1st Lt. Matthew Davis, was killed in November 2014. He wasn’t killed in combat. He was killed by a fellow Marine who had too much to drink and got behind the wheel of his pickup truck, leading military police on a wild chase […]

Gen. Robert Neller has not wasted any time since becoming commandant of the Marine Corps on Sept. 24. Last month, he released his vision for the next four years — a fragmentary order to the planning guidance released in 2015 by his predecessor, Gen. Joseph Dunford. He ordered a full review of the service’s fitness standards […]

Years before his other well-known instances of taking flight – from criminal cases in Madera County, Orange County and, finally, from the Orange County jail itself — Hossein Nayeri fled his post as a U.S. Marine. Nayeri, now 37, enlisted in the Marine Corps as a teenager in August 1998 but vanished from his post […]

On Nov. 6, 1942, the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion led by Lt. Col. Evans Carlson, embarked on what became known as the Long Patrol, a 29-day, 151-mile slog across the island of Guadalcanal in pursuit of Japanese forces. It was a successful mission and only 16 Raiders were killed, but according to Oscar Peatross, legendary […]