The suspension on shipping new recruits is a precautionary measure intended to protect more recruits, the training personnel, and the installation community from the virus, according to a Marine Corps statement.

How did a trunk that once belonged to a decorated Montford Point Marine from New Jersey who fought at Iwo Jima end up in Connecticut? The mystery has the family of Gilmon D. Brooks scratching their heads.

Marines who are leaving the service or on special duty assignments have been exempted from a far-reaching stop movement order issued by the Pentagon to help halt the spread of the coronavirus.

Lt. Col. Andrew Mills lost his job leading Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 466.

A Marine stationed at the Pentagon tested positive for the coronavirus this week.

The isolation center — officially called the Task Force Medical Isolation and Observation Center Camp Pendleton — can house up to 200 Marines and sailors affected by coronavirus.

The panel also urged the immediate closure of Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, which is in a densely packed urban area in central Okinawa.

The Marine Corps is leaving recruiting offices open and conducting in-person interviews with potential Marines, even as Army efforts move online and recruiters voice safety concerns tied to the coronavirus pandemic.

The Siddiqui family had sued the Marine Corps in 2017, alleging their son Raheel was assaulted, hazed, tortured and discriminated against at the training depot on Parris Island because of his Muslim faith.

Lance Cpl. Brandon David Bowen, 27, was charged March 23 by the Jacksonville Police Department with felony second-degree arson, among other charges.

The biennial exercise, called Native Fury, shows the close ties between American forces and the UAE.

Gen. David Berger, the Marine commandant, said in October that the Marine Corps is “not optimized for great competition. It is not optimized to support a naval campaign.”

“The Marine Corps is committed to ensure the health protection of our force and family members while also protecting our local communities," a service statement said.

Five more Pacific Fleet sailors stationed on San Diego-based ships tested positive for COVID-19, the Navy announced Sunday, doubling the number of such cases on the waterfront.

Concerns about safety as the new coronavirus spreads highlight the Pentagon’s challenges in preparing for the pandemic as calls grow louder for it to take a greater role in the U.S. response.

MCAS Beaufort leaders and local public health officials “are taking the necessary precautions to prevent a potential outbreak.”

According to officials, the Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps are all altering their child care services and programs in the wake of the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.

Another active-duty Marine tested positive for COVID-19 at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, a base spokesman told The San Diego Union-Tribune Wednesday.

Marines arriving with the rotational force will be restricted to their rooms with access to necessary supplies, until the isolation period has passed, according to the service.

The 10-day leave following graduation from Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island has been suspended through at least May 11 to help prevent spread of coronavirus.

The patient, a Camp Lejeune dependent, tested presumptive positive for the virus at Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune, base officials announced Thursday.

The commander and the sergeant major of a Marine battalion at Camp Lejeune, N.C., have been fired nearly three months after two rifles went missing from the unit, the Marine Corps announced.

The Marines are investigating an infantryman based at Camp Pendleton for potential violations of the Pentagon’s policy against extremism, according to a Marine Corps spokesman.

Cpl. Eloiza Zavala, 20, a native of Sacramento, was a motor vehicle operator with Combat Logistic Battalion 13 out of Camp Pendleton, Calif.

In this special episode of Military Matters, hosts Rod Rodriguez and Desmon Farris shed light on the coronavirus that is causing major upheaval around the globe.

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The heart of Camp Blaz, where barracks will be built for unaccompanied Marines, is next door to Naval Computer and Telecommunications Station Guam, just west of Andersen Air Force Base.

A San Diego Marine Corps Recruit Depot spokesman said that, while other services canceled, the Marines do not see a reason to do so at this time and are following Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines.

A U.S.-led cold weather exercise in Norway has been cut short because of concerns over the new coronavirus, U.S. European Command announced Wednesday.

Gunnery Sgt. Diego D. Pongo, of Simi Valley, Calif., and Capt. Moises A. Navas, of Germantown, Md., both 34 and both with 2nd Marine Raider Battalion out of Camp Lejeune, N.C., were identified as the service members killed Sunday during a joint U.S.-Iraq raid.

Schools at Marine Corps Base Quantico have been closed for cleaning after a Marine living at the Virginia base tested positive for the new coronavirus over the weekend, officials said.

The commander of a Marine Corps medical training battalion at Camp Pendleton, Calif., was relieved Monday.

A U.S. Marine assigned to Fort Belvoir, Va., tested positive for COVID-19 on Saturday, according to the Department of Defense.

Almost two dozen U.S. soldiers in Norway for a large-scale exercise are in quarantine isolation after possibly encountering a Norwegian service member who tested positive for the coronavirus, the Marine Corps said Friday.

The Army in its budget request said the rifle, designated Mk22 by Special Operations Command, would become the primary antipersonnel sniper system, “effective against personnel and material targets at extreme ranges.”

Jay-Ar Ruiz, 28, a Marine Corps private, was arrested during training at the San Diego Marine Corps Recruit Depot for striking a drill instructor in January 2018 and has spent most of the last two years confined to the brig at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar.

In this week’s episode of Military Matters, hosts Desmon Farris and Rod Rodriguez take a look at influencers among the military community and the opportunities and pitfalls that can await them.

Cutting the heads off cobras and pouring their blood into the mouths of Marines doesn’t sit well with at least two constituencies, cobras and the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

Cobra Gold is one of the Indo-Pacific’s largest multinational exercises. It's also the one where U.S. troops drink cobra blood.

Four elements of the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit will head out over the next few weeks and will operate under U.S. Central Command, one of the Department of Defense's unified commands that oversee U.S. military in the Middle East.

A Marine stationed at Camp Pendleton became the first West Coast-based Marine woman to graduate from the Corps’ Howitzer Section Chief Course this month, taking on a combat artillery leadership role once reserved for men.

It remains unclear whether the ban on “all Confederate-related paraphernalia” on Marine Corps installations would apply to barracks rooms, or if it would require removing any existing features on bases.

Matthew Kraft, a platoon leader with the 1st Battalion/7th Marines at Twentynine Palms, part of the 1st Marine Division based at Camp Pendleton, disappeared after taking leave from the Marine Corps for a two-week backcountry ski trip along the High Sierra Route starting Feb. 24, 2019.

Furthering gender integration in job fields previously closed to women, expanding maternity leave and raising the intellectual bar for infantry troops are among the Marine Corps’ priorities, the service’s commandant said.

Marine Corps Sgt. Bill Genaust filmed the raising of the American Flag during the World War II battle of Iwo Jima. But 75 years later, Genaust’s original “in camera” color film has been lost.

A ceremony in California marking the 75th anniversary of the World War II Battle of Iwo Jima is expected to be the last formal West Coast gathering of veterans of the 36-day fight to take the volcanic Pacific island from the Japanese.

After two weeks pent up at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, the first group of coronavirus evacuees to arrive in San Diego finally got to leave Tuesday.

Retired Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Charles “Chuck” Pitman Sr., who risked his life and military career to help New Orleans police halt the Howard Johnson’s hotel sniper attack that claimed seven lives in 1973, died Feb. 13 following a lengthy battle with cancer.

The DNA of a niece and nephew, who never met their uncle, has helped identify the remains of the Marine from Kansas who died in World War II.

A Marine recruit arrested on suspicion of striking a drill instructor at the service’s San Diego boot camp has spent most of the past two years in the brig and is now confined to a federal prison hospital.

Medal of Honor recipient Hershel "Woody" Williams will share his memories of Iwo Jima during a presentation on Feb. 22.

During a court-martial in 2017, Col. Daniel Wilson was convicted of several charges, including the sexual abuse of a child. However, the U.S. Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals overturned Wilson's conviction without ever hearing from his 7-year-old accuser in person.

The scene on Wednesday, Feb. 12, was part of a five-week joint training exercise between Marines from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, soldiers from the Japanese Ground Self Defense Force and sailors from Expeditionary Strike Group 3.

About 900 Marines, sailors and civilian employees attached to the 1st Marine Raider Battalion and the 1st Marine Raider Support Battalion at Camp Pendleton will start their moves to Camp Lejeune in summer 2021.

The amphibious assault ship USS Bataan transited the Strait of Hormuz into the Persian Gulf Wednesday, becoming the first U.S. Navy “big deck” to enter these strategic waters in 2020.

One of the most beloved figures in San Diego Padres history spent only one season in the dugout — managing the 1980 team to a 73-89 record — and never played an inning for the team. Yet Jerry Coleman easily is the most heroic figure the franchise has ever known.

Sgt. Melissa Paul, based at Naval Weapons Station Yorktown, trains martial-arts instructors. She has been wrestling for as long as she can remember, long before it was common for women to do so.

The JGSDF Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade and a landing team from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit hit the beach Sunday to simulate battle with an enemy force. The units deployed together from the America Expeditionary Strike Group for the first time.

The Marine Corps’ annual budget request will shrink in fiscal year 2021, along with its overall end strength, under a proposal released Monday. The service would eliminate 2,100 spots for a total end strength of 184,100 Marines, down from 186,200 in 2020.

Pfc. Edward A. Nalazek had been buried in a trench with other Marines on Betio Island, where he fell. But the cemetery’s location was lost to history, and in 1949 the family was told that Nalazek’s remains could not be recovered. That changed last year.

A Marine’s mother and sister were killed in a Virginia car crash on their way to see her graduate from Parris Island boot camp last week.

Federal prosecutors have filed a conspiracy charge against a man accused of recruiting and paying Marines and other United States citizens to transport unauthorized immigrants throughout San Diego County shortly after they crossed from Mexico into the U.S.

Two facilities at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar have been readied to house hundreds of Americans returning from China due to the coronavirus outbreak, the Marine Corps said Tuesday.

The restaurant's owner, Phillip Christopher Azevedo, a Marine Corps veteran, was taken into custody Dec. 21 on suspicion of marijuana possession, according to a Japanese police spokesman.

Gen. Kenneth “Frank” McKenzie, who heads U.S. Central Command, said Iran had “de-escalated” its ballistic missile force and had brought its air defense forces back to a “normal state of readiness” following its retaliatory strikes on bases housing U.S. troops in Iraq.

Maj. Gen. Kevin Iiams, the commanding general of the 3rd Marine Air Wing, said at a presentation on the base Friday that the new aircraft — the Navy's version of the F-35 — was a key part of the Marine Corps' mission in the future.

The Navy will have a worldwide audience Sunday to showcase its newest warplane, the F-35 joint strike fighter.

The commanding officer of a San Diego-based Marine Corps fighter squadron was removed from command, the Marines said in a statement Thursday.

The parents of Raheel Siddiqui sued the Marine Corps in 2017, alleging he was assaulted, hazed, tortured and discriminated against at the training depot on Parris Island, South Carolina, because of his Muslim faith.

Cpl. Austin McMullen, Cpl. Timothy R. Watson, Sgt. Anders K. Larson and Staff Sgt. Leary K. Reichartwarfel each received the Navy and Marine Corps Medal in a ceremony at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, N.C., for putting their own lives in danger to save Ali Joy and her twin girls.

Members of the III Marine Expeditionary Force are the first to receive one of the $150,000 Markforged Metal X 3D printers, which is save money on waste and avoid the downtime associated with ordering parts from the United States.

“Apparently, somewhere in the chain, there is a senior U.S. government official who is hesitating or stalling,” Debra Tice told reporters Monday. “There is no possible way for me to understand why anyone would defy the president’s will."

Casting sessions will be held in February at two Marine Corps bases on the east and west coasts.

Cpl. Spencer Daily was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Cpl. Tyler Patrick Wallingford, whom he shot in the barracks at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort.

A former sailor connected to the Pornhub account where the videos were posted is a suspect, according to a Navy official who spoke on the condition of anonymity about the investigation.

Lorena Mendez is the widow of Marine Lance Cpl. Norberto Mendez-Hernandez, who enlisted in the Marines in 2010 and was killed in action in Afghanistan in 2011. He was 22 years old.

About 3,000 U.S. troops slated to take part in an upcoming cold weather exercise in Norway in early March have been diverted to other missions. Some 7,500 U.S. troops are still expected to take part in the Norwegian-led Cold Response exercise.

Looking back at the inaugural episode of the Military Matters podcast, hosts Desmon Farris and Rod Rodriguez discuss ongoing research into cannabis, misconceptions that persist about the controversial plant, and the its potential medical and addiction complications.

Okinawa was chosen as the site for the Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps Force Level Summit — usually held in Washington, D.C. — because of the importance placed on the Indo-Pacific region by Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger’s Planning Guidance and the National Defense Strategy.

Pfc. Ali Al-kazahg also pleaded guilty to making false official statements to his sergeant in Hawaii and gate guards at Offutt, along with fraudulent enlistment, as he did not disclose to Marine Corps recruiters he had once been arrested and rejected from enlistment into another service.

Navy and Marine Corps lawyers have failed to learn from past mistakes and many of them display a lack of basic ethics in their approach to cases, according to a review of the services’ judge advocate general corps released Friday.

Marine Corps Sgt. Maj. Richard D. Thresher has been tapped to serve as the next senior enlisted leader of U.S. Africa Command, the military announced Thursday.

The commander of Recruiting Station Cleveland in Ohio, Maj. Brandon Currie, Sgt. Maj. Christopher Lillie and an operations officer, whom officials declined to name, were fired last week by Col. Robert Clark, commanding officer of 4th Marine Corps district.

Officials have not determined a motive in the fatal shooting of 19-year-old Marine Chance Jammal Kelley, who was stationed in South Carolina.

Following escalating tensions between the United States and Iran, the U.S. Northern Command — the agency that oversees the Department of Defense’s homeland defenses — has directed Camp Pendleton and other California military bases to increase security conditions.

Service members who suffered moderate to severe traumatic brain injury in combat have significantly higher incidence of mental health disorders in following years as compared to warfighters who sustained other traumatic injuries, a study found.

No charges have been filed as an investigation continues into the case of two rifles that went missing in a training area last month aboard Camp Lejeune.

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Monday it has identified the remains of a sailor and a Marine more than 75 years after they were killed by the Japanese in World War II.

A South African man was arrested at Camp Schwab late last month after illegally entering the coastal Marine Corps base on Okinawa while snorkeling.

Civilians and Marines credentialed under the Law Enforcement Officer Safety Act may carry their own firearms for personal protection but cannot use them while on duty.

Dozens of pro-Iranian militiamen and their supporters had camped out at the gates of the embassy in Baghdad where they stayed the night, a day after they broke into the compound, trashing a reception area and smashing windows in one of the worst attacks on the embassy in recent memory.

A ProPublica report: Commanders did not act on dozens of pleas for additional manpower, machinery and time. When a training exercise ended in death, leadership blamed the very men they had neglected.

The U.S. and Australia should establish a combined amphibious force including 2,000 Marines and a similar number of sailors based in Darwin, Australia, to build regional support for countering China’s ambitions in the western Pacific, according to a former Marine colonel.

In Vietnam Gen. Paul X. Kelley earned a Silver Star, the Legion of Merit with Valor device, and two Bronze Stars with Valor device. From 1970 to 1971, he commanded the 1st Marines.

The Whelan siblings have thrust themselves into two byzantine systems half a world apart: American diplomacy and Russian justice. Their brother Paul has been incarcerated for more than a year after his arrest for alleged espionage.

Two Marine Corps families are suing Lincoln Military Housing for negligence, fraud and rent abatement, among other allegations, related to mold in housing at Camp Pendleton and Marine Corps Air Station Miramar that left members in each family sick.