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A Marine killed in that Florida helicopter crash earned a Silver Star 4 days...
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) — Just four days before he was killed in a helicopter crash, Staff Sgt. Andrew Seif was awarded one of the military's highest honors for heroism, a commendation he earned for...
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The US military has an integrity problem
Recently, a paper from the Strategic Studies Institute of the Army War College entered the military zeitgeist. Its title was provocative: “Lying to Ourselves: Dishonesty in the Army Profession.” Those...
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70 years on, Japan and the US remember an epic Iwo Jima battle
When Yoshitaka Shindo was a boy, he did not hear much from his family about his grandfather Tadamichi Kuribayashi, commander of the Japanese troops who fought in the bloody battle of Iwo Jima.The...
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The Marine Corps wanting to put flawed new fighter jets into service is the...
The biggest story this year so far in the F-35 joint strike fighter world is not the soaring cost of the aircraft — a problem that appears to have been contained, according to the program manager — but...
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The Navy and Marine Corps are already preparing for the F-35's first deployment
The Navy and Marine Corps are preparing their amphibious assault ships for the F-35B Joint Strike Fighter’s first ever deployment slated for 2018.The Marine Corps short-take-off-and-landing variant of...
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A Marine Corps helicopter made an emergency landing on a popular San Diego beach
A Marine Corps helicopter had to make a precautionary landing on a popular California beach after potential engine problems on April 15. The Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion was forced to land on Solana...
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Stunning images of US Marine Corps Prowler jets flying at dusk
Based at MCAS Cherry Point, in North Carolina, Marine Tactical Electronic Warfare Training Squadron 1, or VMAQT-1, is responsible for training of student pilots and electronics-countermeasures officers...
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Legendary Marine General James Mattis to post-9/11 veterans: 'We should deny...
Retired Marine Gen. James Mattis wants Post 9/11 veterans to know their wartime service strengthens their character through what he has coined “post-traumatic growth.”Writing in The Wall Street...
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11 things First Sergeants say that make troops lose their minds
Army and Marine first sergeants have to talk a lot, considering their duties as company-level senior enlisted leaders. While they primarily act as advisors to company commanders and deal with...
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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, as did Alvin York and Audie Murphy before him. He had dreamed of being a US...
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The US military has a 'thorny' problem on its hands
WASHINGTON (AP) — It's not against the law or military regulations to choose not to sit with someone in the dining hall or to unfriend them on Facebook, but in the traumatic aftermath of a sexual...
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Obama is nominating a Marine general who led the Afghanistan war coalition as...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is choosing a widely respected, combat-hardened commander who led the Afghanistan war coalition during a key transitional period during 2013-14 as the next...
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General Dunford will be the second Marine to serve as chairman of the Joint...
President Barack Obama will nominate the second Marine General to serve as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Associated Press reports.Dunford, commandant of the Marine Corps, would...
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32 powerful pictures of the US Marines through history
The Marine Corps has served a role in every conflict in the history of the United States.That is because the Marines operate on sea, air, and land — unlike the other services — and can respond to a...
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A US Marine Corps helicopter has gone missing in Nepal
WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. military helicopter carrying six Marines and two Nepalese Army soldiers went missing during a mission in Nepal delivering aid to earthquake victims, U.S. defense officials said...
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6 reasons Camp Pendleton is the best base in the Marine Corps
Camp Pendleton is the best place in the world for Marines to be stationed.Sorry Hawaii Marines, but I'm calling it for Pendleton. That giant, wonderful base found between San Diego and Orange County on...
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US Marines are hosting a one-of-a-kind conference with foreign Pacific...
The U.S. Marine Corps is bringing together foreign commanders from amphibious forces deployed mostly in the Asia-Pacific for a conference aimed at taking initial steps to integrate their operations,...
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All 8 bodies recovered among US Marine helicopter wreckage in Nepal
Nepal's army says that the bodies of all eight people on board the US Marine helicopter that disappeared this week during a relief mission in the earthquake-hit Himalayan nation have been...
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1 dead, 21 hurt as plane carrying Marines crashes in Hawaii
Smoke and fire rushed from a crash site in Hawaii after a U.S. Marine Osprey went down in a "hard landing," killing one Marine and injuring 21 other people, some critically.Twenty-two people were...
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29 pictures of Marine drill instructors screaming in people's faces
Every small-town tough guy thinks he'd never take treatment like this.Then when they get down to Parris Island, that small-town tough guy quickly realizes: You will take treatment like this and like...
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