State Department spokesman Robert Palladino said Tuesday that the Trump administration will continue to pursue the work of Anthony Zinni, a former commander of U.S. Central Command who retired from the Marine Corps in 2000.

The sky was a gloomy gunmetal gray Monday as dozens of U.S. Marines swarmed the notoriously tricky airstrip high atop Santa Catalina Island.

Calvin Smith endured 21 surgeries and a leg amputation caused by war injuries he suffered in Iraq, a motorcycle accident and a brain tumor. On his road to recovery, he fell in love with his speech therapist and she’s now his wife. He also discovered Pilates, which has so reshaped his mental and physical health that he’s now becoming an instructor.

The Marine Corps has remained the last service branch not to completely train men and women recruits together. About 60 percent of recruit training is already integrated.

A retired Marine Corps officer whose career was damaged after his unit was falsely accused in 2007 of war crimes in Afghanistan should have his rank elevated and be awarded back pay for damages, a Navy board has determined.

Officials familiar with the investigation said there are two possible scenarios: a weapon discharged as it was being passed from one Marine to another during a shift change, or a Marine accidentally fired a sidearm as it was being removed from a holster.

ANALYSIS

How does a Marine Corps veteran, who is allegedly visiting Russia to help a friend, get picked up as a spy? It's a case that has birthed countless theories and speculation not only about Paul Whelan, but also about America's complex relationship with Russia.

Marine Maj. Henry Courtney Jr.'s family is asking for the medal to be given or loaned to a Duluth veterans memorial and museum that already has a substantial Courtney display.

Marine Maj. Henry Courtney Jr. was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during a daring World War II night attack against the Japanese.

As a staff sergeant with the Marines, Paul Whelan enjoyed fine cigars and showed an affinity for Russia — even spending two weeks of military leave in Moscow and St. Petersburg instead of at home in the U.S. with family.

Riley S. Kuznia, 20, from the small northwestern Minnesota town of Karlstad, was shot about 5 a.m. Tuesday, his mother confirmed in a Facebook posting.

A U.S. Marine was shot and killed Tuesday morning inside the Marine Barracks on Capitol Hill in Southeast Washington, prompting a District of Columbia police investigation.

In recognition of the holiday, “only the absolute minimum level of mission-essential flight activity will be permitted” at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni from Jan. 1 to Jan. 3, said the statement by Col. Richard Fuerst.

Tom Mattis is unsure what will come next for departing Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, but he says his brother's loyalty lies with the Constitution and the American people.

When Col. George Bristol retired after 38 years in the Marine Corps, including 19 years in some of the most dangerous places on earth, he could have easily kicked back and relaxed. But that's not his style. "In the military, the mission was to kill or capture," he said. Now, he's on a mission to get runaway kids back home safely.

GALLERY

Watching out for “cow pies” on patrol, adjusting fire to account for free-range cattle and sleeping while bulls with foot-long horns walk past their tents are some of the things U.S. Marines are getting used to in Spain.

The group of Marines had been on leave for the weekend — camping in tents and hiking at Big Bear. As they headed back toward Camp Pendleton, they came upon the crash and entered into what one of the Marines called "Marine Mode" to save the injured motorcyclist.

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Marine scout snipers with Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crises Response Africa practiced long-distance shooting and sniper combat training alongside Spanish army reconnaissance soldiers.

Growing up, Lyle Gilbert didn’t consider joining the military. Today, he’s a Marine Corps major whose example has led four of his children into military service – three as fellow Marines.

Among the flaws discovered so far: exhaust gas sucked back into the engine, limited service life for parts for the main rotor gearbox, deficiencies with the tail rotor and driveshaft and late deliveries of redesigned parts.

For 52 years, Paul Schultz never revealed details about his Vietnam War service. The closest he got was telling his sons that they owed their lives to his best friend in Vietnam.

On Dec. 10, retired Marine Col. Jim Turner put on his dress uniform and medals and drove to the Bay Pines Department of Veterans Affairs complex. He got out of his truck, sat down on top of his military records and took his own life with a rifle.

Uniforms that saw Evan Wheeler through some pivotal times in his life - and some of the best, like when he married his wife in his dress blues - stolen along with vehicle.

The new U.S. military runway will eventually facilitate the relocation and closure of Marine Corps Air Station Futenma. A small protest movement — backed by popular support — has stood fervently opposed to the relocation of Marine air operations within the prefecture.

A single KC-130J flew slowly past MCAS Iwakuni Friday in remembrance of five Marines who lost their lives after their aerial refueler collided in midair with an F/A-18 Hornet Dec. 6 off southern Japan.

Investigators have concluded that a Marine's failure to follow firing range procedures was responsible for a June 21 incident where a bullet broke two windows in a mango farmer's shed near Camp Schwab.

There are over 4,500 sailors and Marines serving in the Kearsarge Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) and 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) that will deploy Dec. 17.

In a somber congressional hearing on Navy and Marine Corps readiness, lawmakers expressed condolences, read aloud the names of the Marines who died in a recent crash and urged newfound vigilance for the military.

Four Marine F/A-18 Hornets roared over Iwakuni in tribute to Capt. Jahmar Resilard, who died in a midair collision last week.

Marines assigned to the 9th Engineering Support Battalion were exposed to a different type of battlefield setting than the U.S. has been involved in the past quarter-century during recent drills at Okinawa’s Jungle Warfare Training Center.

The $5 million restoration project is a collaboration between the Catalina Island Conservancy and the U.S. military and will be used as a training exercise for the troops. The Marines will do a complete repair of the 3,000-foot-long, 60-foot-wide runway.

The five Marines who were aboard a tanker plane that collided midair with a fighter jet last week ranged from young corporals early in their service to a veteran pilot. On Tuesday, they were declared dead, ending days of searching for them.

The Marine Corps has ended an extensive search for five Marines missing after their KC-130J Hercules collided with an F/A-18 Hornet last week off Japan’s southern coast.

F/A-18 Hornets will conduct a single-pass, missing-man formation Wednesday morning over Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni as part of a private memorial service for Marines lost in a midair collision last week.

What stood before a team of riggers at the National Museum of the Marine Corps last week looked like a piece of cosmic sculpture, and a remnant of some terrible tragedy. In a way, it was both.

The search continued Monday for five Marines who went missing last week after their KC-130 Hercules collided midair with an F/A-18 Hornet.

The disaster was one in a string of fatal mishaps involving military aircraft over the last few years, drawing questions whether the aircraft are adequately maintained and whether all service members flying and caring for them are appropriately trained.

The search for five Marines who went missing early Thursday after their KC-130 Hercules aerial tanker collided midair with an F/A-18 Hornet has moved into its third day in Japan.

All Capt. Jahmar Resilard wanted to be since he was a child was a pilot. The 28-year-old Marine Corps pilot, who was killed in a collision Thursday off the coast of Japan, had Lego plane sets and played flight simulation games growing up. His devastated family says it's "amazing" Resilard was able to achieve his lifelong dream.

A 28-year-old Marine Corps pilot from south Florida was killed after his F/A-18 Hornet fighter collided with a refueling plane during training Thursday off the coast of Japan, an accident from which five Marines remain missing, service officials said.

The release of a report about the cause of a deadly crash resulted in a flood of memories and questions for Ashley Kundrat, who was married to Staff Sgt. William “Billy” Kundrat.

The downed planes, which launched from Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, were conducting “regularly scheduled training,” including aerial refueling, when the accident happening, a Marine Corps statement said.

Two Virginia Beach-based members of SEAL Team Six and two Marines, who face charges in the death of Army Staff Sergeant and Green Beret Logan Melgar, had their hearing continued.

Iwakuni Mayor Yoshihiko Fukuda said worries about aviation accidents are increasing, especially after another crash involving a Hornet off the seas of Japan last month.

One Marine has died, one has been rescued and five are still missing after a collision between a fighter and a refueling plane off the coast of Japan, U.S. and Japanese officials said Thursday.

Between the battlefield and a hospital lies a critical stage of care for a wounded sailor or Marine. That’s the job of 3rd Medical Battalion, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, which displayed its ability to quickly erect a self-sustaining mobile trauma and surgical unit close to the fighting during a recent three-day exercise.

The Marine Corps is investigating the sudden death of Gunnery Sgt. Efrain Martinez Jr., 34, who was found in his home at MCAS-Iwakuni on Nov. 26.

U.S. Forces Japan released a photograph of the aircraft from Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121 — the “Green Knights” — at Futenma on Tuesday.

A federal judge has dismissed the $100 million wrongful death lawsuit against the government brought by the family of a deceased Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island trainee despite, as the judge wrote, the “serious questions that remain” about the circumstances of the death.

Just in time for the holidays, the lowest-ranking Marines across Japan, Australia and Hawaii are getting an extra hour of off-base liberty, along with other loosened restrictions.

“Mudhole” isn’t a nickname many people would choose for themselves. But when the son of one of the most famous U.S. presidents gives it to you, you wear it proudly.

Navy has 34 football seniors this season and 16 of them have received Marine Corps as a service assignment. Travis Kerchner will train to become a Marine Corps pilot, but the other 15 all selected Marine Corps Ground.

After a stint in the Marines and various other jobs, Donald McCaig established himself as one of America's leading chroniclers of the rural life, a master stylist whose understated prose — often featured in the NPR program "All Things Considered."

A member of the Okinawa-based III Marine Expeditionary Force must answer to multiple charges in the April sexual assault of a female Marine who was reportedly too intoxicated to consent.

Over the course of 76 hours, 961 Marines and sailors were killed trying to take the heavily defended Japanese outpost on the tiny isle of Betio between Nov. 20 to 23, 1943.

Marines from November Company, 4th Recruit Training Battalion marched in newly approved outfits that include mandarin collars, white belts and gold waist plates. The new coats resemble those worn by male Marines but lack pockets and lines on the uniform.

The announcement of Sgt. Gary G. Wilson's death said he died in a motorcycle crash on northbound Interstate 15.

Travis Denny, who joined the Marine Corps 10 years ago under the shadow of his Marine hero grandfather Bill Pasewark, is a helicopter pilot stationed at Corpus Christi.

All that’s needed to name the West Richland, Wash. post office after fallen Marine Sgt. Dietrich Schmieman is President Trump’s signature.

Thousands of Navy and Marine Corps veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan who developed post-traumatic stress disorder but were denied Veterans Affairs health benefits have been given a green light to sue the military, under a ruling by a federal judge in Connecticut.

Austin Tice, a freelance journalist and Marine veteran, was taken prisoner in 2012 while reporting on the civil war in Syria. The U.S. government says he is still alive.

A couple, both Marines, attended a ball celebrating the Marine Corps' 243rd birthday. The next morning, the wife was found dead.

As most Americans go about the long Veterans Day weekend with football, barbecues and shopping, Matt Koetting late last week discussed with about 250 mostly younger Marines at Kaneohe Bay some of the significant challenges facing the warrior ranks.

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For more than 20 years, the Japanese government has been paying to move U.S. military personnel and equipment from Okinawa to mainland Japan for artillery training.

U.S. Marine Forces Europe and Africa’s parade ground is now known as “Devil Dog Field” in honor of the troops who fought 100 years ago in the Battle of Belleau Wood and on battlefields across Europe.

Marine recruiters are confident they can pick up their pace and meet demand for the highest number of new recruits in more than a decade, officials said Thursday.

U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell's relationship with about 15 Marines who help secure the diplomatic compound has become a focal point for the 52-year-old ambassador, who attracted attention early in his tenure as President Donald Trump’s lightning rod in Germany.

Two military aviators have been banned from flying during an investigation into a phallic-shaped flight pattern they made last month in Southern California, the Marine Corps said Tuesday.

The U.S. and Japan are in the final stretch of a large, complex field training exercise that has 10,000 American servicemembers drilling alongside 47,000 Japanese troops on land, in the air and at sea.

Essay

Foster B. Stevens, 83 Co. U.S. Marines, died in France on Nov. 2, just nine days before the Nov. 11, 1918, armistice that ended World War I. But exactly where and how he served - and where and how he died - was a mystery.

A section of road will be named for acclaimed actor and Marine Corps veteran R. Lee Ermey during a ceremony on Nov. 10, the Marine Corps’ birthday, according to a fundraising page.

As part of NATO’s Trident Juncture war games, U.S. Marine armored vehicles and infantry battled their way through to liberate the the sleepy Norwegian town of Oppdal and seize its small airfield.

The attorney for the parents of a deceased Marine recruit abused at boot camp is optimistic a federal court will allow a $100-million lawsuit against the military to continue after a hearing Monday in which the government again argued to have the case thrown out.

A deployment to Norway to fight a mock enemy, followed by scarfing down Scandinavian hot dogs? Awesome, said some Marines. But did it have to happen right when Red Dead Redemption II came out?

Some junior Marines in Japan have shredded their meal cards and moved to a simpler system that requires only a common access card, or CAC, to dine at mess halls.

The project is a collaboration between the Catalina Conservancy and U.S. military. It will restore the 77-year-old runway that has become cracked and decayed. Presently, there are about 7,000 flights onto Catalina Island each year.

The influx of thirsty American servicemembers over the weekend caused a beer shortage in many of the popular drinking establishments in the small country. Almost 7,000 sailors and Marines were in Iceland for the exercise.

More than 200 Marines took part in the friendly competition.

On Thursday, Marine Corps Maj. David Cheek adamantly denied charges of making blatant sexual overtures to two women he supervised after one accuser just as forcefully rejected the assertion she had made up her story.

The 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit unveiled the insignia Friday to replace its longtime symbol of an eagle and anchor.

“I believe we will have to make continued efforts to fully explain to the people of Okinawa the government’s efforts to reduce the base-hosting burden, including the transfer” of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to a less populated area of the island, minister Mitsuhiro Miyakoshi said.

A Marine and three Department of Defense employees are alleged to have conspired to defraud the government via weekly thefts of high-end razors from the Parris Island Recruit Store.

The United States and Japan have renewed an agreement to discuss the possibility of allowing Japanese officials onto Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to verify the safety of U.S. military aircraft.

The Honolulu Fire Department, U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Marines all responded to a downed private helicopter on a sandbar in Kaneohe Bay on Monday evening. The three people aboard all suffered serious injuries.

The name of the base in northern Guam will honor Marine Brig. Gen. Vicente “Ben” Tomas Garrido Blaz, the highest ranking Chamorro to have served in the Marines.

When artist Abbe Godwin took on the task of designing the 6-foot statue of a Marine that now stands watch at the Beirut Memorial, she was given a very specific concept to follow. But bringing to life the Marine in The Peacekeeper was more than molding a sculpture into a figure for Godwin.

While 35 years have passed since the Oct. 23, 1983 Beirut bombing, the date remains etched in the minds of Jacksonville, N.C. community members — as well as the memorial that stands in tribute to the nearly 300 lives lost in the blast.

The day before Charlie Guarino graduated boot camp, he'd have the rare opportunity to honor his father at a special ceremony, one that brought together three generations of Marines.

Marines and Japanese citizens observed a moment of silence Friday for 13 Marines killed in a blaze nearly four decades ago at Combined Arms Training Center Camp Fuji.

The latest battle between Tokyo and Okinawa over a new U.S. military runway intended to facilitate the relocation of Marine Corps Air Station Futenma involves an official examination of a landfill permit revocation made by local officials on Aug. 30.

U.S. Marines have kicked off a training operation in Iceland, conducting an air assault drill and battling the elements in the island nation’s picturesque environment.

The new “Fresh Line” items — which include options like packaged salads, wraps and flatbread and panini sandwiches — replace popular but fattening options like chili macaroni and cheese that are high in sodium and calories.

Nearly 51 years after the battle that would launch John L. Canley into the annals of Marine lore, the retired sergeant major stood stoic in the White House on Wednesday as he received the nation’s highest military honor.

The U.S. Navy and Marines are training with their Italian and French counterparts in the Mediterranean Sea, during an exercise that coincides with a recent Russian navy buildup in the region.

Three generations of Marines from the same family gathered recently at Parris Island to celebrate a rare occasion: A son's graduation from boot camp, and a father's promotion.