Stealth fighter makes first vertical landing aboard modified Japanese warship
A U.S. fifth-generation fighter jet landed on a Japanese helicopter destroyer this week, bringing Japan one step closer to taking its own advanced stealth fighters to sea.
A U.S. fifth-generation fighter jet landed on a Japanese helicopter destroyer this week, bringing Japan one step closer to taking its own advanced stealth fighters to sea.
All versions of the F-35, the world’s costliest weapons program, have failed to meet minimum combat readiness rates for six straight years, according to the watchdog agency for Congress.
U.S. Marines drew on recent real-world experience over the weekend to practice their disaster response skills alongside their Filipino and Japanese allies on a stretch of Philippine coast along the South China Sea.
Jataya “Jay” Taylor was forced to abandon her dream of a military career just three years after joining the Marine Corps, when the usual bumps, sprains and other scrapes from training did not heal normally but grew worse.
The 3rd Marine Regiment has since been reorganized into the 3rd Marine Littoral Regiment — or MLR — as the Corps looks to reorganize for the 21st century.
U.S. Marines were preparing to fly 49 tons of American aid to typhoon victims in the northern Philippines.
The Marine Corps will soon deploy an unmanned, semisubmersible watercraft designed to move supplies and weapons across large ocean distances in waters surrounding Okinawa.
The training incident in question involved a potentially deadly mishap with a live fragmentation grenade.
A relatively new Marine Corps rotational force has arrived in the Philippines for its third six-month deployment, just as the longtime U.S. ally engages in a test of wills with China.
A modest spike in sexual assault cases against U.S. troops has again raised the specter of rape on Okinawa but data show it’s a sporadic, infrequent crime.