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.

Most military working dogs are “dual-purpose,” meaning they have been trained to both subdue suspects and detect hidden objects, such as bombs or narcotics. But Yenkie and Diego are the only working dogs certified in three skills in the Defense Department’s law enforcement community.

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.

U.S. investigators came to believe after Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega's ouster that many of his puzzling actions could be attributed to his occult rituals. But in the end, witchcraft proved no match for the 82nd Airborne and other troops that descended on Panama City in the early hours of Dec. 20, 1989.

Marines with the 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, reportedly lost two M4 service rifles and a body armor set during a training exercise on base recently.

A young Marine once “hacked” then-Maj. Gen. Jim Mattis’s computer and sent an email from the two-star’s account to a female Marine that the private first class had a crush on, the former defense secretary told a crowd at a luncheon Wednesday near his hometown.

The military generally tells its personnel not to disclose sensitive information on social networks and to avoid installing apps that might compromise personal or sensitive data. But there is no uniform policy on TikTok.

A section of a propeller recovered from the wreckage of the Dec. 6, 2018 collision is included in the new memorial, which was unveiled at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni on the first anniversary of the accident.

Judge Randa Trapp, who also presided over the family's trial two months ago, did not throw out the jury’s ruling that the housing company be held liable, only that the family was awarded too much money.

Pfc. Anthony Sowers, 20, assigned to Camp Hansen, was taken into custody shortly after police were called, said Okinawa Police Station Deputy Chief Hirotoshi Iha.

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Wreaths Across America came to the U.S. Naval Academy cemetery a day early on Friday, as volunteers placed more than 2.500 wreaths at the final resting places of sailors and Marines of all ranks.

The Marine Corps has ordered over 100 buildings, including six housing towers, on Camp Kinser emptied for four hours Sunday to accommodate the removal of unexploded ordnance.

Prosecutors on Okinawa declined this week to charge a Marine helicopter pilot found to be at fault for an MV-22 Osprey crash off Okinawa in 2016.

Firefighting foam containing PFOS was released this month after an auxiliary power unit in an aircraft hangar was inadvertently switched on at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, a Marine spokesman said.

Three American workers at a Marine Corps base on Okinawa and one American teenager were charged with marijuana offenses this week after an extensive police operation.

The U.S. military’s top enlisted service member unveiled a new, distinctive rank insignia specifically for the senior enlisted adviser to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, an insignia that he will wear for his last week on the job.

In vivid, yellow letters 5 feet high and 66 feet long, the words “No Fly Zone” appear on the rooftop of Kin Town Hall, a plea to U.S. military pilots to steer wide of the community below. The words are visible at night.

Male and female Marine Corps recruits will train together at boot camp under a provision in the new defense budget, ending the service’s practice of gender segregation.

Mortar flare rounds were found Thursday and Friday outside training grounds near Camp Hansen.

With political campaigns ramping up and presidential impeachment efforts underway, the Marine Corps issued a reminder about what political activities its members can engage in legally, including what’s acceptable to tweet, “gram” and otherwise share on social media.

The unidentified Marine is assigned to the 1st Marine Division Headquarters Battalion, the Marine Corps said in a statement, and was arrested by U.S. Customs and Border Protection about 1:30 a.m. Monday.

Two suits, both filed Saturday, seek $1.8 million in compensation: $1.16 million for 110 residents around Kadena Air Base and $642,00 for 102 residents near Marine Corps Air Station Futenma.

The Marines’ cases will be dealt with administratively, outside the military court system, according to a 1st Marine Division statement. Many of them will be discharged from the service.

Lance Cpl. Alexa Barth is the only woman accepted into the basic reconnaissance course since the Pentagon lifted a ban on women in combat roles in January 2013.

Federal prosecutors indicted Jacques Yves Sebastien Duroseau, a native of Haiti, in North Carolina last week on gun-smuggling charges. Duroseau told investigators he “picked every gun” to bring into the country so he could teach Haitian soldiers how to shoot.

The Pences toured the Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron 501, serving meals to Marines and sailors. The couple had just returned from Iraq, where they served early Thanksgiving meals to soldiers at the Al Asad Air Base and Erbil.

Over 40 Marines from the Fleet Anti-terrorism Security Team-Pacific, or FASTPAC, are living for two weeks at Warrior Base near the DMZ, the sometimes-tense border between North Korea and South Korea. The practice ranges include training areas that simulate the real-life settings in which the Marines may be called upon to ply their trade.

Marine Sgt. Samantha Alexander is not a medic, but she learned as a recruit in boot camp how to identify the type of bleed and to apply a tourniquet. That training might have saved the life of a teenager hit by a car.

Thousands of Marines and sailors who deployed to the Middle East and the Indo-Pacific seven months ago, returned to three West Coast Marine Corps bases just in time for Thanksgiving.

A year after Shaun DeWaters was honorably discharged from the Marines in June 2006, he obtained the state's Iraq Marine veteran plate. He had the plate for more than 12 years until he bought a new car this fall, the lawsuit said.

Gunnery Sgt. Scott A. Koppenhafer was killed Aug. 10 by enemy fire during combat operations against the Islamic State group near Qanoos Island in Iraq, according to a statement Tuesday by Operation Inherent Resolve.

After years of struggling with mental illness, Marine Corps veteran John Wilkerson, 58, is enrolled at Eastern Michigan University and is aiming for a bachelor's degree in social work.

Col. Lawrence Miller was relieved of his command “because he lost trust and confidence in his ability to lead,” according to a Marine Corps statement.

Last year, Noah Furbush said he planned on trading his Michigan football jersey for a different uniform. And on Saturday, while his former teammates were beating Michigan State, Furbush realized his goal of becoming a member of the United States Marine Corps.

Some Ewa Beach residents are concerned that a Marine Corps plan to install 1,500 feet of steel barrier to protect part of the oceanfront Puuloa Range Training Facility from beach erosion could create new problems for residents on either end.

On June 21, 1997, Ron Parkhurst was found floating in the remote Saddle Island Cove in the waters of Lake Mead, about 30 miles from The Strip in Las Vegas. The Clark County coroner concluded he had been in the water for about three days.

The July arrests of 16 Camp Pendleton Marines in front of their 800-person battalion was unlawful and a violation of their rights, a Marine Corps judge ruled Friday.

Kahsai Tyree Hill, assigned to 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment of Camp Lejeune, N.C., admitted in court Thursday to choking a woman until she fainted and striking a taxi driver and a bystander the morning of May 25 after a night of drinking in Tokyo.

The data was extracted from the Garmin Fenix 3 smartwatch of Capt. Jahmar Resilard, a Marine Corps pilot who ejected from his F/A-18 Hornet after colliding with a KC-130J tanker last year off the coast of Japan.

Officials said Thursday that they believe Cpl. Michael Alexander Brown was near Roanoke, Va., and closed area schools, urging residents to remain indoors following a report the wanted Marine was spotted in the city.

None of the Air Force, Marines and Navy variants of the Lockheed Martin fighter is meeting its five key “reliability or maintainability metrics,” according to a Pentagon spokesman.

Marine Cpl. Michael Alexander Brown, 22, is wanted on charges of second degree murder and the use of a firearm in the commission of a felony for his alleged role in the death of 54-year-old Rodney Brown.

Everett Glenn Miller was feeling “hopeless” and “angry” when he sought medical help from the VA four days before killing two Kissimmee police officers in 2017, an expert witness told jurors Tuesday.

Before the change, only female Marines were allowed to use umbrellas. Marines will still be prohibited from using umbrellas while in their camouflage uniforms, as is the case with other services.

Investigators determined that the squadron involved in a deadly 2018 midair collision suffered from “inadequate oversight of training and operations” and an “unprofessional command climate.” A report says officers engaged in wrongful use of prescription and over-the-counter drugs and that aviators took selfies in-flight.

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The July mass arrest of 15 Camp Pendleton Marines in front of their 800-person battalion may have violated their rights and threatens to upend the case, according to attorneys for two of the accused.

Lance Cpl. Samuel London, a reservist in the 25th Marine Regiment based at Fort Devens, is in the process of being removed from the Marines, according to a statement from the service.

Grover C. Fields middle school students got a little uniform history from the Marines on Wednesday morning. Or, rather, they got a little history about the uniforms of Marines.

Lt. Col. Jeremy Davis was fired Monday from his post as commander of 3rd Transportation Support Battalion. Marine officials did not respond to requests Wednesday seeking specifics on why Davis was fired.

The Enhanced Air Cooperation initiative focused this year on fifth-generation fighter integration, aero-medical evacuation and aircraft maintenance.