A Marine Corps veteran of the Korean War who said he had joined the military at 15 spent some of the final hours of his life with active-duty Marines at a birthday bash for the service in his native Tennessee.

The biennial Talisman Sabre will bring together a record number of troops from 19 countries for joint training across Australia and Papua New Guinea.

Japanese prosecutors have indicted a U.S. Marine who allegedly fled the scene of a drunken driving crash last month that injured four people, including two children.

Marine Staff Sgt. Stephon Smith received a Joint Service Achievement Medal on April 4 for his work with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency this spring.

Two hundred Marines will guard federal buildings in the Los Angeles area, freeing up more National Guard soldiers to back up federal agents arresting undocumented immigrants, the commander of military troops sent to the city said Friday.

The Zero Hangar at Iwakuni was formally rededicated to both honor the past and underscore the present strength of the U.S.-Japan alliance.

Hegseth maintained the call-up of 4,000 National Guard members and 700 active-duty Marines was “lawful and constitutional” and said the same process could be employed in other cities.

The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children released an age-progression image of a 17-day-old baby to aid in the search for Kevin Verville Jr., who was abducted in 1980 from a Marine Corps family stationed at Camp Pendleton, Calif.

The combined force of nearly 5,000 National Guard soldiers and Marines deployed to Los Angeles to help contain immigration protests have expanded their mission to protect federal agents as they conduct raids and arrests throughout the city, military officials say.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth defended the deployment of National Guard troops and Marines to respond to immigration protests in Los Angeles, saying the military would stay involved for 60 days at a cost of $134 million.