Approximately 330 Marines arrived in January in 2017 to bolster cooperation between the two countries and conduct exercises in the wake of continued Russian aggression in Europe.

The museum will dedicate a monument in honor of Marine Corps Interrogator Translator Teams Association on Thursday, June 22 in downtown Jacksonville.

Family members say a U.S. Marine from Ohio killed in a California motorcycle crash had gotten married to his high school sweetheart just 10 days before the accident.

Col. Daniel P. O’Hora, commander of the Marine Corps Engineering School aboard Camp Lejeune, was fired June 6. An investigation into O’Hora has been opened and remains ongoing.

GALLERY

NATO forces completed a mock amphibious assault in northern Poland as part of Exercise Baltic Operations, giving U.S. Marines a rare chance to practice a skill that has languished over the years: a shoreline assault.

Obituary

Arthur J. Jackson, who singlehandedly destroyed a dozen enemy pillboxes and killed 50 Japanese soldiers during a fierce battle on the Pacific island of Peleliu, died Wednesday at the Boise VA Medical Center.

Lance Cpl. Kevin Guerrero was sentenced to 15 years in state prison on Wednesday after he pled guilty to burglary in the second degree and sexual abuse of a SUNY New Paltz female student in an off-campus apartment.

An Iranian naval patrol boat shined a laser at a U.S. Marine Corps helicopter flying over the Strait of Hormuz in what officials said was an unsafe encounter.

A retired Marine Corps sergeant major and an off-duty police officer’s swift actions Tuesday led to the capture of an intruder after a violent attempted robbery at a home in Kaneohe.

A Marine Corps Air Station New River aviation officer has lost her command after an off-duty incident was not properly reported.

A Marine Corps F/A-18 Hornet made a precautionary landing this week at a Japanese air base, U.S. and Japanese officials said.

As an actor and military technical adviser, Dale Dye has been the driving force behind some of the most beloved and revered war epics. Now he wants to step behind the camera.

The commander of the small contingent of Marines based in South Korea says the corps does not have enough forces to permanently expand its presence on the divided peninsula.

A high-ranking former Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island training commander — relieved of command following a recruit’s death — faces a preliminary hearing that could send his case to the highest level of military court.

During a change-of-command ceremony Thursday, Brig. Gen. Thomas Weidley relinquished oversight of Camp Lejeune and Marine Corps Installations East to Col. Michael Scalise, who will hold the position throughout the summer.

Active duty members, veterans and their spouses swapped camo and boots for robes and tasseled caps as they prepared to receive their degrees — many from completely different schools — in a shared ceremony aboard Camp Lejeune this week.

The Marine Corps has asked Congress for $3.2 billion to buy warplanes and other equipment that did not make President Donald Trump’s fiscal 2018 defense budget plan, according to a copy of the request obtained by CQ Roll Call.

For some Marines, tattoos are a way of remembering and honoring fallen comrades. The images themselves vary. Some memorial tattoos are more personalized, their meanings — to everyone except the wearer — less obvious.

The governor of Okinawa is preparing another lawsuit challenging the relocation of Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to a remote part of the island, according to multiple Japanese media reports.

Each family has a different plan for Memorial Day, but all of them will be remembering their lost loved one.

Three married U.S. Marine officers have found themselves under investigation for a night in Colombia that went off the rails, involving allegations they went drinking with some local women, were slipped illicit drugs, robbed of U.S. property and landed in a local hospital emergency room.

A former Parris Island drill instructor was acquitted Wednesday of hazing-related charges filed against him following an investigation into allegations of wide-spread mistreatment of recruits at the Marine Corps’ storied South Carolina recruit depot, a Marine spokesman said.

The commandant of the Marine Corps suggested that the United States may reconsider the timeframe for relocating troops from Okinawa to Guam because of North Korea’s growing missile threat.

More than half of the funding for the Marine Corps in fiscal year 2018 will be spent on personnel, but the force will remain constant at its current goal of 185,000.

Zachary Boland died due to complications from pneumonia after concealing his illness from drill instructors at Parris Island in an attempt to avoid being dropped from training, the investigation found.

Branden Roy Baker, 34, entered the plea in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, where he will face a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison when he is sentenced Aug. 11.

Among Marines, Don Downer has become known as the "Spam Czar" because a signature care package item is a can of Spam. His 3,000th care package also included magazines; foot powder; Tobasco sauce; Vienna sausage; sunflower seeds; Pop-Tarts; and Cracker Jacks.

Miramar Marine Corps Air Station will begin converting its jet squadrons to the stealthy F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters, triggering major construction projects in the coming months, Lt. Gen. Jon “Dog” Davis told San Diego’s military and business leaders on Wednesday.

Now that troops have returned from deployments and training with physical injuries caused by heavy equipment, the military has looked to bring the overall weight of gear down. So the Army and Marine Corps are working together to lighten the things they carry.

Another officer shot and killed Ronald Williams, but Stephen Mader's decision to not shoot would cost him his job as a police officer for the city of Weirton, W.Va., according to allegations in a federal lawsuit he filed last week against his former employer.

Yoo is a career infantry officer who has led units from a rifle platoon to the entire 1st Marine Division. He previously served as director of operations for U.S. Special Operations Command at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa.

A South Carolina coroner said he would consider changing the ruling of suicide for a Michigan Marine recruit who died at boot camp last year if circumstances warrant.

In the wake of the nude photo sharing scandal that rocked the military earlier this year, Marines with substantiated cases of improper photo sharing will face mandatory separation proceedings.

A Marine unit was dispatched to Helmand last month for the first time since 2014. The returning unit has nine months to make a mark. Stars and Stripes spoke with some of the Marines. Here are a few we met.

Gunnery Sgt. Joseph A. Felix’s trial for his alleged involvement in the death of a Muslim recruit at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island will begin this summer, according to the Corps.

ANALYSIS

Lockheed Martin Corp.'s new King Stallion helicopter for the Marine Corps is likely to cost $144 million each, 4 percent more than projected by the service, and be ready to deploy a year later than planned, according to the Pentagon's cost assessment office.

New court documents reveal that federal agents continue to probe a soldier’s 2013 hanging at Camp Pendleton, with her civilian husband a top suspect in the case.

The challenge is a 5-mile course of obstacles, mud and winding sandy trails through the Fort Gordon woods.

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Seventy-five years after the 4th Marine Regiment was virtually wiped out on Corregidor, members of the present-day unit have returned to mark the anniversary of the epic World War II battle.

Although thousands upon thousands of well-meaning Americans on Facebook and Twitter are asking people to pray for the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, the grunts aren’t suffering any casualties in Afghanistan. They’re home at Camp Pendleton, preparing to deploy to sea.

The Marine Corps will end hundreds of Osprey and helicopter training flights taking place annually at a tiny Hawaiian airport after residents questioned their legality.

GALLERY

Northern Edge is the largest military exercise in Alaska and involves about 6,000 soldiers, sailors, airmen and other personnel, plus nearly 200 aircraft and several ships. Participants will test their skills in simulated combat in a remote swath of the Interior and the Gulf of Alaska. The U.S. Air Force's Alaskan Command is leading the exercise.

A Marine Corps recruit who was hazed by his drill instructor suffered second- and third-degree chemical burns on his buttocks so severe that he needed skin grafts, according to documents newly released by the service.

A U.S. Marine accused of a hit-and-run accident last year that killed two teenagers is now in the Harnett County Detention Center.

Vice President Mike Pence is scheduled to speak at the U.S. Naval Academy's graduation and commissioning ceremony this month.

It was a surprise war-deployment scenario, one with a cruel twist. When done correctly, former 4th Battalion Commander Kate Germano said, it can be an effective teaching tool. But done incorrectly, Germano said, it can be considered hazing.

For the first time since the drawdown of U.S. troops in Afghanistan in late 2014, U.S. Marines returned to Helmand province en masse Saturday as the 300-person Task Force Southwest took over the training and advising mission there.

Four Hawaii-based MV-22 Ospreys arrived at Royal Australian Air Force Base Darwin today after flying nearly 6,000 miles and hopscotching across the Pacific, the Marine Corps said.

Analysis

In Oceanside, civil rights attorney Gloria Allred held a news conference with two victims of the original scandal to accuse Pentagon and congressional leaders of conducting a weak investigation into the misconduct. She also asserted that military commanders were attempting a face-saving effort instead of instituting significant reforms.

The Marine Corps has relocated more than 900 tortoises from a section of Southern California's Mojave Desert to allow large-scale military training.

Obituary

Julia Hamblet, a retired colonel who was instrumental in integrating women into the regular Marine Corps in the late 1940s and became the longest-serving director of the women’s branch of the Marines, died April 17 at a retirement community in Williamsburg, Virginia. She was 100.

The closures have impacted Marine bases Camp Kinser, Camp Courtney and Camp Foster, where traffic backups have led to 45-minute delays in getting off base on some days during rush hours.

The military is cracking down on things servicemembers might be tempted to post online after a scandal involving shared nude photographs of female comrades on the Marines United Facebook group.

The White House announced Tuesday that Randolph D. "Tex" Alles, a senior customs official and retired Marine Corps general, would take over the U.S. Secret Service, becoming the agency's 25th director.

The Navy said Monday it will comprehensively review recent breathing problems experienced by aircrews of the F/A-18 strike fighter and the T-45 jets used to train them.

A man from Marine Corps Air Station New River is accused of posting nude and nearly nude photos of a woman online without her permission.

Gunnery Sgt. Joseph Felix is accused of several violations of the military code, including cruelty and maltreatment and failure to obey an order in relation to the death of Raheel Siddiqui.

The body of a 21-year-old Marine who went missing earlier this month in Hawaii was found Tuesday near a rugged hiking trail on Oahu.

The military pumps $24.1 billion into the state's economy each year, according to a new study by the University of South Carolina's Darla Moore School of Business.

A former Marine who fired more than 20 rounds from a military-style assault rifle at two people he let into his downtown St. Paul apartment last spring was sentenced Tuesday to three decades in prison.

Having their house painted by volunteers last year was a blessing for Niki Wheeler and Pat Visconti. The couple was selected for a project to fix up the exterior of a veteran's home.

High levels of a banned pollutant have been detected in water running under Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, a year after the substance was found in streams and underground water wells adjacent to Kadena Air Base.

The Marine Corps is axing some online courses and adding more face-to-face training, according to an early copy of an internal message obtained by Stars and Stripes.

Retired U.S. Marine Jose Luis Sanchez waved the flag, which had been signed by fellow Marines, most of the 26.2 miles. In 2011, Sanchez lost the lower part of his leg when he stepped on an IED in Afghanistan.

The Marine Corps is temporarily shutting down firing ranges and has launched an investigation after bullets struck a vehicle and a water tank at an on-base construction site at Camp Hansen, Okinawa.

Marine Maj. Mark Thompson pleaded guilty to lying in a sexual misconduct case, admitting Thursday that he "crossed the line" when he had sex with two students during his tenure as an instructor at the U.S. Naval Academy.

The Marine Corps’ first female armor officer will soon report to Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, where she will become the first woman to lead a Marine tank platoon.

Each military branch offers slightly different services in support of its special-needs families. Here’s how officials describe their work.

Marine Maj. Mark Thompson, the former U.S. Naval Academy instructor charged with lying in a sexual misconduct case, was slated to stand trial this week, but instead a plea hearing is scheduled for Thursday at Marine Corps Base Quantico, according to the military's online court docket.

Hundreds of female Marines and Marine veterans have launched a new group to press for an end to misogyny in the Marine Corps, saying the recent scandal in which nude photographs of some women in the service were distributed by their male colleagues is unacceptable.

Don Benton, a former state lawmaker from Washington, is being tapped to oversee the U.S. Selective Service System. Benton ran President Donald Trump's Washington state campaign.

A $4,000 radio cable priced at $64,000 was one of several wrongly valued parts discovered in the Marine Corps supply system in March, military officials said following an investigation.

The Marine Corps has punished two California-based Marines for derogatory remarks that they expressed on social media about a female Marine and service leadership, and law enforcement agents have uncovered at least 56 people suspected of involvement in a nude-photo sharing scandal, military officials said Friday.

Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft are heading Down Under to help move Marines around the Outback during their annual deployment to Australia.

A veritable army of Testudinidae are all that's standing between the Marine Corps and the Marines' planned temporary closure of the Shared Use area this August.

The Marine Corps moved forward Wednesday with the prosecution of two drill instructors accused of hazing and abusing recruits, including one who allegedly put a recruit in an industrial-size clothes dryer and turned it on repeatedly.

The Marine Corps will replace its aging fleet of F/A-18 Hornet aircraft with F-35 Lightning IIs more quickly than initially planned because of continued struggles to keep the legacy fighter jets airworthy, service leaders said Wednesday.

An active duty Marine with ties to Sacramento was arrested Thursday for allegedly killing two women in their San Bernardino County home.

The Marine Corps says information regarding administrative actions of personnel linked to allegations of hazing and recruit abuse because they are not high-visibility leaders. In September, the Corps announced 20 drill instructors and leadership personnel could face military justice or administrative action.

Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, S.C. will resume soil testing at Laurel Bay homes in April amid an ongoing probe of whether health concerns can be tied to the military housing.

The Marine Corps says a gunnery sergeant accused of misconduct related to the death of a Muslim recruit has waived his preliminary hearing.

The Marine Corps has 20 tactical fighter squadrons, though the lack of funding for spare parts and other servicing has decreased the number of aircraft in each unit. More so, many aircraft are older, need maintenance more often and are not available for as many missions.

The Pentagon is poised to review — and probably approve — a new helicopter from Lockheed Martin to transport heavy cargo for the Marine Corps in a program valued at as much as $29 billion.

MILITARY UPDATE

The Marine Corps has begun outreach to hundreds of thousands of veterans who served at Camp Lejeune, N.C., at least 30 days from August 1953 to December 1987, inviting them or surviving spouses to file for VA compensation if veterans suffered one of eight ailments linked to water contamination on the base.

An Okinawa-based Marine has died while in South Korea for joint war games, the military said Tuesday.

Marines who act illegally or immorally on the Internet will be punished, according to the Marine Corps’ new social media policy released in the wake of an illicit-photo sharing scandal.

Marine One could make regular appearances in South Florida now that a landing pad has been completed at President Donald Trump’s winter White House, his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach. Instead of taking a motorcade from the airport — and tying up traffic — he can fly, though it’s not yet clear how often that will happen.

The Naval Criminal Investigative Service on Thursday had identified by name 1,200 members of the Marines United Facebook page, a number that included more than 700 active-duty Marines and 150 in the Reserve, Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., said.

The Commandant of the Marine Corps made a visit to Camp Lejeune and New River Air Station Wednesday in the wake of a nude photo scandal that recently made national headlines.

The Marine Corps has rescheduled the hearing for an unnamed former drill instructor allegedly linked to the death of a Muslim-American recruit, and the recruit’s family attorney hopes the delay means more charges will be considered.

GALLERY

Athletes from the trial will be selected to compete in the Department of Defense Warrior Games June 30 in Chicago. There, Marines will compete against teams from the Army, Navy/Coast Guard, Air Force and the U.S. Special Operations Command.

At 94, World War II veteran Ruby Gilliam would like to be able to say she outlived the problem. But she knows that the fight against discrimination and harassment are far from over for America's military women.

TECOM officials late Friday afternoon issued a release saying an Article 32 hearing had been scheduled related to the investigation into the death of Raheel Siddiqui last March.

A Marine Corps drill instructor alleged to have slapped and abused a Muslim-American recruit moments before his death could soon face a preliminary hearing to determine if his case will be tried at the highest level of military court.

A Marine Corps task force will investigate the nude-photo scandal and scrutinize internal cultural issues and policies that might have led some male servicemembers to share explicit images of female Marines on the Internet, Gen. Robert Neller, the service’s commandant, announced Friday.