The New Yorker magazine has apologized to Justin Gaertner, a Marine who lost both legs to an explosion in Afghanistan in 2011. He has said the tattoo is not an Iron Cross but a "Titan 2" design — the symbol of his platoon.

Fleet Marines are set to get a more reliable, faster and better protected amphibious fighting vehicle starting in late 2020 as the Corps begins replacing its decades-old amphibious assault vehicle.

The Huntington VA Medical Center is being renamed for World War II veteran Woody Williams, West Virginia's last surviving Medal of Honor recipient.

The federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency is pushing back against a social media post implying that a combat-wounded Florida veteran has a Nazi symbol tattooed on his arm. The veteran says it's his platoon symbol.

A federal judge on Monday overturned the contempt conviction of Marine Brig. Gen. John Baker, who is in charge of Guantanamo's war court defense teams, ruling that the military judge overstepped his role.

Two men in hiding have been arrested for the death of a U.S. Marine killed in the Philippines more than five years ago.

A county board of commissioners unanimously approved a resolution in support of allowing commercial freight on the Camp Lejeune Rail Line. Currently, rail traffic is exclusively used to transport equipment and supplies to and from Camp Lejeune.

Sgt. Matthew Callahan, a Marine who filmed and photographed artillery strikes on the Islamic State in Syria is the first servicemember ever to be named both Military Photographer and Videographer of the Year.

The update – which went into effect June 14 and can be used by parents whose children were born as far back as Dec. 23, 2016 – adds six weeks of primary caregiver leave that can be taken in conjunction with six weeks of maternity leave.

The remains of Pfc. John W. Mac Donald, of Somerville, are scheduled to be buried with full military honors June 22 at the Massachusetts veterans' cemetery in Bourne.

After living in Central Florida for years, married to a Marine and raising two daughters, Alejandra Juarez is facing deportation to Mexico next week — unless she gets a last-minute reprieve.

The incident appeared to be the result of a “negligent discharge,” a Marine official said. Investigators were looking into the incident and officials declined to comment further Friday.

Seven years ago, Marine Nick Montez had to say goodbye to his working dog, Mally, after returning from a deployment in Afghanistan. Now, he's preparing for a reunion following years of countless attempts to adopt the animal.

The start of landfill work for a new runway into Oura Bay at Camp Schwab will be delayed until Aug. 17 because of concerns about endangered species found at the site.

The 24th annual Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training, or CARAT, which began Wednesday in Thailand, also includes stops in Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei and Bangladesh. Similar training will also occur with Vietnam and the Philippines.

"Jonathan, I love you. Jonathan, I love you," Megan Price repeatedly told her husband in a 911 recording of the night the two were shot outside Austin City Saloon in Lexington. Marine Cpl. Jonathan Price died.

Marshall High School Principal Scott Hutchins had chastised two graduates for wearing their Marine dress uniforms, instead of the traditional cap and gown, during commencement.

A jury on Wednesday recommended the death penalty for Andrew Urdiales who was convicted of killing one woman in Orange County while stationed as a Marine at Camp Pendleton and four women in Riverside and San Diego counties while stationed at Twentynine Palms.

The request would raise the contingent from 330 Marines on a six-month rotation to 700, the Norwegian government said in a statement Tuesday. The rotations began last year and have since been routinely extended.

Col. Robert Brodie took command of the nation’s only permanently forward-deployed Marine Expeditionary Unit from Col. Tye Wallace during a ceremony Wednesday at Camp Hansen.

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The drills are part of the larger two-week Baltic Operations exercise based on a scenario in which instability in the Baltics leads to insurgent groups taking power over much of the region. NATO forces are asked for help.

Rob Mitchell, who spent 11 years flying for the Marines before joining Paradise Helicopters, volunteered for the trip. “Some pilots might have turned around, but this was personal for me. Most people in the area had time to evacuate, but she had been on the mainland and was just coming off a medical procedure. My heart was bleeding for her,” he said.

Andrew Urdiales has been convicted of killing one woman in Orange County while stationed as a Marine at Camp Pendleton; four women in Riverside and San Diego counties while stationed at Twentynine Palms; and three women in Chicago while working as a security guard after leaving the military.

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Starting Tuesday evening, during a planned refurbishment of what is formally known as the U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial, the Sunset Parade and Silent Drill moves temporarily to a bigger stage, the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

Four Marines in Camp Pendleton’s 1st Marine Logistics Group are facing serious criminal charges and another pair recently pleaded guilty at court-martial. The charges include rape, kidnapping, firearms violations, drug use and domestic abuse.

A Marine who was accidentally shot and seriously wounded last summer during a night exercise at Pohakuloa Training Area on Hawaii island has made what the Corps is calling a "miraculous" recovery following 13 major surgeries.

The Pentagon announced Wednesday that President Donald Trump was nominating Marine Corps Maj. Gen. John K. Love for the appointment to the rank of lieutenant general and for reassignment as the U.S. representative to NATO.

Luke Villotti is a disabled Marine with a note from the Veterans Administration stating the 20 chickens in his backyard are "support animals" that help him cope with the depression and pain he faces on a constant basis. His neighbors, however, disagree

The control tower on Parris Island's Chosin Rifle Range is now called "Willis Tower." It was dedicated to retired First Sgt. George Willis, who earned a Purple Heart after he was injured by a grenade blast during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir.

Sgt. David Hardy was driving to work on Highway 75 in Uruma at about 3:20 a.m. when he hit 63-year-old Morio Sakumoto, who was sleeping in the roadway. Police said alcohol was not involved in the incident.

The Marine Corps has relieved the head of one of its most important Pacific bases due to a “loss of trust and confidence in his ability to lead his command.”

Lt. Cmdr. David McDonald, Lt. Heidi Schreckenbach and Kylee Cisneros are the first nurses within NMCCL to earn Trauma Certified Registered Nurse certification; McDonald and Schreckenbach are among the first in the U.S. Navy.

The likeness of a female Buddha was plundered from a village shrine in north central Vietnam during a patrol in April 1968 by a Marine. The return had to be done discretely because of Vietnam’s restrictions on religion.

No matter what hell was enveloping James Capers Jr. and his Force Reconnaissance Marines, when it was time to escape a melee he was the last man on the ground — sometimes holding off enemy attackers alone before boarding a helicopter to safety.

Caps and gowns temporarily replaced helmets and cammies as the dress code of the day for some aboard Camp Lejeune on Friday.

A health clinic that opened at the largest U.S. Marine base on mainland Japan Thursday has been named for a hospital corpsman awarded a posthumous Navy Cross for valor during the Vietnam War.

An Okinawa-based Marine was in Japanese police custody Friday, days after his car collided with a motorcycle, killing its driver.

Gunnery Sgt. Scott Dahn was assisting his wife with an underwater rescue course last month at Maeda Point, Okinawa, when he noticed a Chinese scuba diver flailing in panic.

The family of Robert F. Gibson, who spent 30 years in the Marines, included a complaint about Northern Virginia drivers in his obituary, which drew attention online after it was posted on Reddit.

Donavan Macura, 19, of Kalispell, Mont., was on a 3-mile training run in Okinawa on May 25 when he suddenly dropped to one knee, had a seizure and collapsed.

Jessie Matthew Gibbens pleaded guilty to attacking his ex-girlfriend, holding her and another man at gunpoint and endangering a child after setting their home on fire in 2015. He was stationed at Parris Island at the time of the incident.

As they attacked, the Marines "left behind fourteen decades of small-scale skirmishes with insurgents [and] pirates ... and entered the industrialized world of massive fire power and wholesale slaughter," historians Edwin Howard Simmons and Joseph H. Alexander have written.

Jared J. Kelch, 26, died of blunt force trauma after he was struck early Sunday morning about 4 miles west of Farmer City. A memorial is scheduled for Saturday morning in Bloomington.

Four years after a Marine corporal died and his wife was wounded in a shooting outside a Lexington bar where the two celebrated her birthday, the trial for two men charged with murder started.

Brandon Barfield has kept his best friend’s room just the way he left it. Drew DeVoursney’s black suit still hangs in the closet of the West Palm Beach home they shared. And his guitar — the one he used to perform Lynyrd Skynyrd and Allman Brothers songs while they were both deployed in Iraq — rests beside the bed he slept in.

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The Memorial Day ceremony also marked the centennial of the Battle of Belleau Wood, where Marines and Army troops fought a bloody battle against German forces in World War I.

Hershel "Woody" Williams, the last surviving Marine awarded a Medal of Honor during World War II, will be the featured guest speaker June 6 at a luncheon to raise funds for construction of a Gold Star Families Memorial Monument here.

Each helicopter can carry up to 43 people at a time and evacuate an estimated 400 people within four hours. On Monday if the situation is still the same with Kilauea Volcano threatening Lower Puna, military officials could call upon active duty for help, he said.

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President Donald Trump told the Naval Academy's graduating class Friday that the nation, buoyed by increased defense spending and a favorable economy, has regained its swagger and is "respected again."

Lt. Col. Rafael A. Candelario II and Sgt. Maj. Marcus A. Chestnut of 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion were removed from their positions due to a loss in confidence of their ability to lead.

Several improvements are planned for body armor worn by female Marines and soldiers.

"It was only for the pure of heart to serve then," former Montford Point Marine David Potts Sr., said of World War II. "You had to fight both the system and the Japanese."

Twenty-four MV-22B Ospreys fly out of Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Okinawa, and five CV-22 Ospreys — part of a squadron that will grow to 10 aircraft — began operating out of Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo last month.

A popular retail chain surrendered to the Marines on Tuesday, following a warning from the Corps to quit using its name to sell Memorial Day merchandise.

The U.S. and Japanese governments have agreed to move some Marine Corps facilities from a pair of bases in southern Okinawa to Camp Hansen in the northern part of the island prefecture.

U.S. Marines withdrew tanks and weapons from storage caves in secret locations in Norway to fire tank guns and other weaponry alongside more than 3,000 Finnish servicemembers at Finland's Arrow exercise.

A Camp Lejeune Marine officer was relieved of his command on May 19, 2018 due to a loss of trust and confidence in his ability to continue to lead the battalion, officials said.

Rick Nealis kicked off the opening of the soggy Historic Half Marathon weekend Friday by joking that racers could not only run, but also swim to earn their finisher's medal Sunday.

Prosecutors said two hackers who promoted the Syrian government by compromising media coverage and disrupting access to sites like Marines.com were indicted Thursday in federal court on 11 counts of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.

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Joshua Dias, 14, will play the role of Colin Wolfe, a Marine killed in Iraq at the age of 19. Both grew up in Prince William County, Virginia. Both were encouraged to dance by their parents. And both felt tugged early in life toward joining the military.

On Sept. 22, an airman with Okinawa’s Joint Service Vehicle Registration Office at Camp Foster handed the disk to an Air Force security officer from Kadena Air Base. The disk was never seen again.

Lyft Tuesday announced a year-long collaboration with Marine Corps Community Services called “Base Mode” that establishes a special category for servicemembers and their family members who want use the application to get around Camp Pendleton.

The modifications are the result of nearly two years of study and experimentation known as Marine Corps Force 2025 and Sea Dragon 2025. Changes will be felt at almost every level of Marine Corps life.

The Pentagon sent Marines to bolster security at American compounds overseas as the United States formally moved its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, military officials said Monday.

Marine Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., the 19th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will be the commencement speaker for West Point's Class of 2018 graduation ceremony.

This year marks the first time the Iwakuni-based fifth-generation F-35B has been involved in the annual training with Japanese F-35As, which has been taking place since 1997.

Japan Ground Self-Defense Force aircraft maintenance specialists were to visit Marine Corps Air Station Futenma and be briefed about the AH-1Z Viper and UH-1Y Venom helicopters that made the landings.

Two Marines were injured Sunday during a live-fire exercise at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center at Twentynine Palms. One has been released from the hospital, but the other remains in serious condition.

Marine Vasillios "Billy" Pistolis is featured prominently in the May 3 report on current and former U.S. military personnel who are involved in white supremacist hate groups. According to the report, Pistolis who bragged about beating people in Charlottesville, Va., last summer.

Marine James Stuart Mackenzie, who also was a former Toys for Tots program organizer, was charged with five counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct. Mackenzie was accused of touching three young girls while he lived at a Grand Rapids home in the summer of 2017.

A bronze likeness of Staff Sgt. Reckless, who began her service in 1952 and is the only animal given an official rank in the Marine Corps, will join statues honoring some of the greatest horses of all time at the Kentucky Horse Park, an educational theme park in Lexington.

Pfc. Raymond W. Begay was arraigned last week on murder and manslaughter charges in the Jan. 16 death of 18-year-old Pfc. Ethan Barclay-Weberpal. Barclay-Weberpal was stabbed while sitting in an early-morning formation at Camp Pendleton.

The Marines wrapped up the largest annual U.S.-led exercise in Africa this weekend in Morocco and Tunisia, where Marines trained with soldiers from around the continent on various war games.

News photographers snapped away Monday when Trump and Macron shoveled dirt onto the tree during a ceremonial planting on the South Lawn. By the end of the week, the tree was gone from the lawn.

Authorities pulled the body of a North Carolina grandmother from a creek Friday and charged her grandson, a Marine who had been AWOL, in connection to her murder.

Every dog will have its day, and Friday belongs to the Devil Dog.

Marines gave their undivided attention to a speaker discussing impaired and distracted driving before taking turns behind the wheel. The simulated driving experience is hampered by impairments and distraction.

The Marines’ short-takeoff, vertical-landing variant of the joint strike fighter could be part of such a strategy. Last month, F-35Bs from Iwakuni’s Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121 landed aboard the USS Wasp for the first time during the amphibious assault ship’s inaugural patrol of the Western Pacific.

The lawsuit, filed in October by the family of Raheel Siddiqui — who died over two years ago after a fall during boot camp — claims the government and the Corps was negligent in their treatment of the former trainee, and that their actions resulted in his wrongful death.

Pfc. Raymond W. Begay was arraigned last week on murder and manslaughter charges tied to the Jan. 16 death of Ethan Barclay-Weberpal, who was stabbed during an altercation at the base's School of Infantry.

Sgt. Byron E. Capers, 23, faces charges of providing alcohol to one underage private first class and also groping, sexually harassing and fraternizing with at least one other female Marine.

No injuries or damage were reported after an MV-22 Osprey made an emergency landing Wednesday afternoon in Kagoshima prefecture — the third such incident in the past week, officials said.

The employee, who has not been identified by officials, at the Heroes Manor No. 1 Daycare Center aboard Camp Lejeune is being investigated by the Provost Marshal Office following allegations of child abuse and endangerment raised by the parents of an 11-month-old boy.

Marines and sailors will wrap up an 11-day training exercise with Jordan on Thursday that aims to improve military cooperation with an allied country bordering Syria and Iraq.

Lockheed Martin Corp.'s new $31 billion helicopter for the Marine Corps may be falling behind schedule and could miss its target for initial combat capability by as much as eight months, Pentagon analysts say.

A statement issued Wednesday by the III Marine Expeditionary Force on Okinawa said “the pilot received a cockpit indication and elected to land the aircraft at the nearest airport where a safe landing could be made with the most suitable weather conditions.”

The sapling sprouted at a World War I site in France where the Battle of Belleau Wood took place. The battle is an important part of U.S. Marine Corps lore.

The family of a Muslim Marine recruit from Taylor who died two years ago in a fall at boot camp at Parris Island, S.C., is raising new issues about his death, saying missing, inconsistent and mistake-ridden records have left them questioning again what really happened to Raheel Siddiqui.

Capt. Thomas Heitmann, 27, of Mendota, Ill., was killed in a training accident in 2011, leaving his family wracked with grief and unsure what to do about his dream of funding a track at his alma mater. The local community wouldn't let that dream die.

Two thousand, three hundred Marines are back on Okinawa after more than a month at sea accompanying the USS Wasp amphibious warship and F-35B stealth fighters on their first patrol of the Western Pacific.

Cpl. Calvin S. Barker, 22, has been charged with unauthorized absence from Camp Pendleton, Calif., and two counts of groping an unidentified sleeping woman stemming from a Dec. 3 incident.

Johnny and James McClain were honored with 30 others at a recent ceremony at Camp Lejeune where They were presented with red suit jackets, T-shirts, plaques and soon-to-be-delivered rings, as the Marine Corps inducted them into its Boxing Hall of Fame.

Lance Cpl. Fernando Rayon Jr. was arraigned on Jan. 26 on eight specifications for sex crimes including allegedly raping and groping an unconscious and unidentified female Marine on July 1, 2016, at Camp Pendleton.

Cpl. Douglas Pender, a mechanic at 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, has been charged with shoving his wife into a wall, biting her wrist, punching her and kicking her face during a July 23 incident at Camp Pendleton,.

State-of-the-art parts fabrication is keeping America’s most advanced stealth fighter in the air during its first deployment aboard the USS Wasp.