Marine Corps resumes Osprey flights over Japan nearly 4 months after fatal crash

The U.S. Marine Corps on Thursday reported the first flight of an MV-22 Osprey in Japan since a deadly crash nearly four months ago temporarily grounded the aircraft across the U.S. and Japanese militaries.

US sends crisis-response Marines to Haiti to protect embassy

U.S. Southern Command said Wednesday that it had deployed a Marine Fleet-Anti-terrorism Security Team “to maintain strong security capabilities” at the Embassy in Port-au-Prince and “conduct relief in place for our current Marines” at the request of the State Department.

Women in the Marines no longer have to wear pantyhose with their uniform skirts

The Marine Corps has stopped requiring women to wear pantyhose with their uniform skirts, a change made at the request of one unidentified female Marine.

Camp Pendleton squadrons start training with Osprey again after aircraft’s grounding following deadly crash

Osprey pilots and air and maintenance crews with the 3rd Marine Airwing are training with MV-22 Ospreys again after the tiltrotor aircraft was grounded for three months.

Keep your guns holstered: Cold weather delays sleeves-up ritual for some Pacific Marines

The signal for sleeves down in the fall or sleeves up in the spring follows daylight saving time, which took place Sunday in the United States.

Marine Corps budget proposal seeks $53.7 billion for modernization efforts, housing improvements

The Marine Corps has made a $53.7 billion budget request to support its ongoing transformation into a more modernized force and improve living conditions for Marines.

Marine Corps changes marksmanship qualification standards for first time in more than a century

Changes announced Monday to scoring and shooting standards for Marine Corps marksmanship requirements will better account for the speed at which a Marine shoots at a target, not just accuracy.

Hawaii Marine gets 30 years for sexually assaulting children

Staff Sgt. Jawan T. Hale, 37, pleaded guilty to 13 charges of crimes against children as defined by the Uniform Code of Military Justice. He was sentenced Wednesday.

Court fines teenage Marine $680 for assaulting older Japanese man, trespassing

A Japanese court fined a 19-year-old Marine the equivalent of about $680 for trespassing and assaulting an older man in November near this air base south of Hiroshima.

US military flies Marines into Haiti embassy, evacuating some staff in overnight airlift

As heavily armed gangs turn the country’s capital into a battlefield, the State Department flew in U.S. Marines in a middle-of-the-night operation conducted via helicopter.

Military services lift flight ban on grounded Ospreys following November crash

The Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force lifted the flight ban on grounded V-22 Ospreys.

Motorcycle collision kills Camp Foster-based Marine on Okinawa

A Marine assigned to Camp Foster died when his motorcycle collided with a vehicle, police said.

Importance of cyberwarfare a key takeaway from this year’s Cobra Gold, general says

Thousands of troops from 30 nations started for home Friday as the largest military exercise in mainland Asia officially came to a close.

US Marines make ‘lasting impression’ on migrant children in Thailand

Children clad in bright pink polo shirts laughed, danced and cheered during a visit from U.S. Marines taking a community-relations break from two weeks of Cobra Gold military drills.

Marines investigate corporals charged with scrawling antisemitic and racial graffiti

The Marine Corps is investigating two lance corporals assigned to the prestigious Marine Corps Barracks Washington for their roles in scrawling antisemitic and racial slurs on the walls of a dormitory at the University of Maryland.

Marine unit and Bataan amphibious group make way out of Mediterranean

The Bataan Amphibious Ready Group left the Mediterranean Sea this week after a nearly eight-month deployment.

US Marines lend littoral prowess to huge NATO drill in Norway

U.S. Marines are bringing their expertise in littoral operations to the High North, where thousands of troops are practicing tactics that would come into play in a crisis, the service’s top general in Europe said Wednesday.

Military hospitals experienced 2 system outages in 2 weeks; one persists

Human error caused an outage that brought Military Health System Genesis — the freshly installed online system at U.S. health care facilities worldwide — to a standstill in late February, according to the Defense Health Agency.

Marine Commandant Gen. Eric Smith returns to full duty after heart attack

Gen. Eric Smith returned to full duty Tuesday, just over four months after suffering a heart attack on Oct. 29 near his home at the Marine Barracks in Washington. Smith underwent successful surgery on Jan. 8 to repair an aortic valve in his heart.