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ISIS Is Firing Mortars Near US Marines Deployed In Iraq
Marines at a forward training base for the Iraqi security forces in western Anbar province have come under "regular" but spotty indirect fire in recent weeks from ISIS, mostly from mortars, the...
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The 9 Most Intense Unit Mottoes In The Marines Corps
There are some units in the US Marine Corps that really know how to make an impression.Like the rest of the military, Marine units have crests, nicknames, and of course, mottoes. And in quite a few...
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How Marine SWAT Teams Gear Up
Marine Corps Special Reaction Teams act as a SWAT force within the military police community. Because of their specialized mission, they sport some pretty sweet gear. This recent Marine Corps photos of...
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The Lockheed F-35 Jet On Track To Be Combat Ready
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lockheed Martin Corp's F-35 fighter jet is on track to meet the Marine Corps's July target to declare the jet ready for combat use, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said Thursday.The...
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The F-35 Just Hit Another Snag
The F-35 has hit the latest obstacle in its years-long, multibillion-dollar slog towards combat-readiness, Bloomberg reports, citing a not-yet-public congressional report. Software flaws pose the...
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A Marine Sharpshooter Explains Why American Snipers Are Not Cowards
As a US Marine and former Scout/Sniper, I have trained, operated, and learned in turn from America’s best warriors.These include Navy SEAL’s, US Marines Force Reconnaissance, US Army Rangers, Delta,...
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This Marine Was The ‘American Sniper’ Of The Vietnam War
Long before Chris Kyle penned “American Sniper,” Carlos Hathcock was already a legend.He taught himself to shoot as a boy, just like Alvin York and Audie Murphy before him. He had dreamed of being a US...
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One Of These Vehicles Will Be America's Next Amphibious Combat Vehicle
In its efforts to replace the 30-year-old amphibious assault vehicle, the Marine Corps has traversed a long and bumpy road. After three decades, billions of dollars and multiple programs spent trying...
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Legendary Marine General James Mattis Ripped Into Obama's Foreign Policy...
Retired Marine Gen. James Mattis had less than rosy words for the state of US foreign policy Tuesday at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing."[We need to] come out from our reactive crouch and...
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The US Navy is reengineering commercial oil ships for military use
The Navy is making progress building a new class of ships configured for sea-basing and expeditionary missions as a way to help account for a shortage of amphibious assault ships and forward-position...
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Two intense Chris Kyle stories you won't see in 'American Sniper'
The movie "American Sniper," based on former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle's book of the same name, omits two incredible episodes from Chris's life. I'd like to share these stories with with you now in order to...
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This intense training course makes US Marine scout snipers the deadliest...
The Marine Scout Sniper school is the most elite military sniper school on earth. It is also one of the toughest special operations courses in the US Military.Not only do the Army, Navy, and the Air...
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This Marine is on trial for allegedly killing real-life 'American Sniper'...
Navy SEAL Chris Kyle is considered the deadliest sniper in US military history. Kyle had 160 confirmed kills, and his autobiography, "American Sniper," led to a hit movie of the same title.The...
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Here's the intense training for Marines who guard American embassies
The US Marine Corps is often at the tip of the spear, and the few chosen to guard American embassies in friendly and not-so-friendly places around the globe are certainly proof.Stationed at 176...
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US Marine goes to trial a decade after vanishing in Iraq
The trial of a Marine who vanished in Iraq a decade ago and then wound up in Lebanon began Monday with a flurry of motions before the expected seating of a jury.Defense attorneys for Cpl. Wassef...
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ISIS is now dangerously close to a base where US Marines are training Iraqi...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Islamic State insurgents took control on Thursday of most of the western Iraqi town of al-Baghdadi, threatening an air base where U.S. Marines are training Iraqi troops, officials...
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Nearly two dozen Marines injured during a training exercise in southern...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Twenty-two U.S. Marines were injured on Thursday in a training exercise at Twentynine Palms military base in Southern California, when a fire extinguisher system accidentally...
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Top Marine: The Corps doesn't have nearly as many amphibious warships as it...
The Marine Corps needs 50 amphibious warships to tend to all the missions it must perform around the globe, but there are currently only 31 available.The service will have to seek alternative platforms...
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Incredible photos of US Marines learning how to survive in the jungle during...
The US-led annual multinational military exercise Cobra Gold kicked off in Thailand on Monday, despite a faltering relationship between the two countries following Thailand's military coup in May 2014....
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The story of one of the largest airstrikes carried out against Saddam Hussein...
Following the end of the Gulf War in 1991, two different operations were conducted to enforce the no fly zone (NFZ) that was set to narrow Iraqi government airspace: the Northern Watch, which started...
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