Military training involving more than 35,000 troops from the United States, Australia and 17 other nations began with a ceremony aboard one of Australia’s largest warships.

As “the last to let you down” — the sacred motto — a hand-selected section of 12 Marines renders final honors to Marines, Marine Corps veterans and their immediate family members at Arlington National Cemetery and across the national capital region.

Anthony Easton turned over his duties as sergeant major of Marine Corps Installations Pacific to his successor, closing out a 31-year career and his time on Okinawa that saw the Marines activate a second littoral regiment on the island but was marred by a spate of sexual assault charges against service members.

A retired Marine’s new book recounts the 1979 fire that killed 13 Marines and injured more than 70 others at a U.S. military training center near the base of Mount Fuji.

A U.S. airman and a Marine were arrested on unrelated accusations of assaulting local residents near Kadena Air Base, police said.

The Marine Corps is deploying 200 troops from North Carolina to support federal immigration agents in Florida, while another 500 troops are slated to move to locations in Texas and Louisiana.

The military has established a fourth defense zone along the U.S. border with Mexico — designating a strip of land in Arizona where anyone crossing the border is subject to charges of trespassing on military property as well as border crossing violations.

An accomplished Marine Corps helicopter and tiltrotor pilot — a veteran of the war in Iraq — took up his first overseas command Wednesday at the home of a Navy carrier air wing.

A U.S. Marine convicted June 24 in Japanese court of strangling and attempting to sexually assault a woman on Okinawa has appealed the verdict.

The service’s $57.2 billion budget request is part of the Navy’s $292.2 billion overall proposed spending plan for fiscal 2026, which begins Oct. 1. The budget request reflects a more than 6% increase from the 2025 request.