U.S. and Philippine multirole fighter jets are preparing to destroy warships during annual drills in the Philippines, amid rising tensions with Beijing in the South China Sea.

Two U.S. Marines have been accused of sexually assaulting women in separate incidents on Okinawa earlier this year, according to Japanese police — the latest in a string of similar cases stirring public discontent on the island.

The Virginia Arts Festival’s presentation of the 2025 Virginia International Tattoo will honor the 250th anniversaries of the U.S. Army, Navy and Marine Corps.

Electricity was restored to Camp Courtney on Tuesday evening following an outage that left at least 30 families without power for nearly three days, according to Marine officials on Okinawa.

Marines and airmen with Distribution Management Instruction Company, Ground Supply School, played maneuver chess — a physical training event combined with a chess game — to prepare for the realities of combat at Camp Gilbert H. Johnson, N.C.

About 30 Camp Courtney families have been without power since late Sunday evening, with no timeline for its restoration, according to the Marine Corps.

Relatives of war correspondent Ernie Pyle gathered with Marines in Okinawa for a ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of his death.

Human bones discovered more than a year ago at a Marine Corps base on Okinawa belong to a local man who went missing in 2018, according to Japanese police.

The two Marines killed this week in a vehicle crash near the U.S.-Mexico border have been identified as Lance Cpl. Albert A. Aguilera and Lance Cpl. Marcelino M. Gamino, combat engineers assigned to the 1st Combat Engineer Battalion, 1st Marine Division at Camp Pendleton, Calif.

Dakota Meyer joining the Marine Corps Reserve comes nearly 15 years after he was awarded the nation’s highest military award for combat valor in 2011 for his actions during an ambush in the Ganjgal Valley of Afghanistan.