A brief meeting between Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and Gen. David Berger is another sign that the United States is rallying allies in the Western Pacific to counter an assertive China.

The potential closure of Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island is one of several options the Corps is considering to adhere to a Congressional mandate that requires the bases to support co-ed training within five years.

The lawsuit states the Navy was not following its own regulations between April 30, 2002, and June 27, 2019, for assigning disability ratings for conditions that prevented a sailor or Marine from continuing to serve in the military.

Lance Cpl. Samuel London has been charged with murder, manslaughter and other offenses in connection with the death of Daniel Hollis in September 2019.

New infections at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni were discovered during widespread testing after three people tested positive earlier in the week.

Though Washington has no formal relations with Taiwan’s government, which is elected democratically, U.S. law requires the government to ensure Taiwan can defend itself.

The Corps is aiming to bar Cpl. Thae Ohu’s attorneys or any other witnesses from speaking with the press.

Health authorities at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni discovered two additional coronavirus infections after tracing the contacts of three people who tested positive Monday. Large-scale testing is currently underway.

Three of the coronavirus cases reported by the U.S. military in Japan on Monday were community-based infections discovered at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, three were people who had recently entered the country from the U.S.

Lance Cpl. Jamison Michael Bissett, 20, of Camp Hansen, was taken into custody at an Okinawa hospital Sunday morning.

Lt. Col. Samuel K. Lee, a logistics officer for Marine Forces Korea, stole various items — including a 4K ultra high definition security camera system and Bose noise-canceling headphones — between Nov. 1, 2019, and March 8, 2020.

Alvin Mack II retired in May, the same month his son died at the age of 19. Now, Mack plans to honor the late teen's memory with a donation to Fisher House, which offered his family members a place to stay when they were in need.

Uncertainty over the result of this week's presidential election has given way to legal action, demonstrations and even violence. In this tense time, the Military Matters podcast looks back at interviews from of last season's episodes on the use of the military to handle episodes of civil unrest.

Ceremonies will be viewed from computers, TVs or smartphones as the Marine Corps puts public health ahead of tradition for its 245th birthday on Tuesday.

The Army & Air Force Exchange Service will host Medal of Honor recipients from World War II, Vietnam and Afghanistan on its “Chief Chat” social media broadcasts this month to recognize valor for Veterans Day.

1st Lt. Justice Cash, who says he is the great grandnephew of country music legend Johnny Cash, recently led a force that stormed an island alongside troops from Japan’s new amphibious brigade.

Every day in the mess hall kitchen at San Diego's Marine Corps Recruit Depot, a culinary team of nearly 30 cooks turns out more than 9,000 meals. Kevin Tong is among them.

Maj. Gen. Michael E. Langley, one of only seven Black general officers in the Marine Corps, assumed command Tuesday of Marine missions in Europe and Africa, the service announced.

The Pentagon wants to open a new school in the coming years specifically to teach troops to spot and kill small enemy drones, as the military seeks a uniform approach to defeating the small, unmanned aircraft, which officials have labeled a growing battlefield threat.

All three Marines were still detained as of Monday morning.

Eleven individuals at Camp Schwab in northeastern Okinawa tested positive for the coronavirus while in quarantine, and one person at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni tested positive.

More than 150 Patriot Express passengers and 10 pets were forced to quarantine at an air station gym overnight after a bird strike.

Lance Cpl. Corey Staten, who was just 23 when he drowned in a Missouri river in 2018, was recently awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal.

A Navy spokeswoman described the flaws as "micro-cracks" in the composite structure of the blades that don't pose a safety hazard or "an immediate impediment" to operations.

This year’s Active Shield exercise at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni was expanded to include drills on pandemic response, missile strikes, aeromedical evacuations and daylong overhead patrols by two AH-1 Cobra attack helicopters.

Cpl. Thae Ohu, 27, has struggled with PTSD and other conditions following a sexual assault by a fellow Marine years ago — trauma that led to a psychological break this spring, her family contends.

About 350 Marines and sailors from the 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment will begin Arctic warfare training after they complete a period of quarantine for the coronavirus, Marine Forces Europe and Africa said in a statement.

Most Marine tankers have chosen to stay in the Corps rather than join the Army to keep on tanking in the months since the top Marine general called for the shuttering of heavy armor battalions earlier this year.

The Marine Corps is ditching tanks, but its tankers are working to preserve their unique subculture, some with hopes that their special breed may one day be called on again.

Students at most overseas Department of Defense Education Activity schools will receive free meals for the rest of the school year, the Army and Air Force Exchange Service said Monday.

Precautions over COVID-19 meant a far smaller group of Marines attending this year than the 2,500 who arrived in 2019. The size and scope of activities were curtailed, with U.S. rotations into Australia delayed by two months due to the pandemic.

The Marine Corps on Oct. 16 redesignated an existing unit at MCAS Iwakuni as Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 242, the second Marine squadron overseas to field the F-35B.

A ceremony held on Oct. 15 ended the service of Marine Attack Squadron (VMA) 311, known as the Tomcats. But its service will begin anew in 2022 when the squadron merges with another to fly the Marine's new F-35B Lightning II out of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar.

The study comes as the Marine Corps faces a looming deadline set in the fiscal year 2020 National Defense Authorization Act that mandates the service end gender-segregated training within five years at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C., and integrate training within eight years at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, Calif.

Maj. Gen. Stephen Neary has been relieved of command of U.S. Marines in Europe and Africa while the service investigates allegations he used a racial slur that denigrates Black people, the Corps said Tuesday.

The roughly 250 Marines and sailors who spent the past month assisting wildfire firefighting operations in California returned to Camp Pendleton on Tuesday, the U.S. Army said in a news release.

Both individuals affiliated with the military in Japan who tested positive for the coronavirus are new arrivals in quarantine, one at Yokosuka Naval Base and the other at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni.

In this fast take episode of Military Matters, host Rod Rodriguez discusses feedback we've gotten after the QAnon episode, and explores possible characteristics about veterans and service members that make them so vulnerable to extremism. To uncover more, he talks again with journalist and military veteran Jack Murphy.

Cpl. Alex Martinez, 21, and three other Marines were killed April 5, 2012, in Afghanistan during a explosives cleaning mission in the Helmand Province.

Lt. Col. Michael J. Regner was relieved Tuesday from command of the Battalion Landing Team, 1st Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, “due to a loss in trust and confidence in his ability to command,” according to a statement.

The fiscal year 2020 National Defense Authorization Act has a section mandating the Marine Corps to end gender-segregated training at Parris Island within five years and integrate the training at San Diego.

The Women in Military Service for America Memorial, at the gateway to Arlington National Cemetery, is regularly placed on lists of “hidden gems” within the nation’s capital — a perspective on the memorial that its leaders are trying to change.

Marines and sailors took part in a first-time joint training exercise on Okinawa and other Japanese islands designed to improve their working relationship.

A Marine Corps spokesman identified the Marine in the video as Pfc. Jarrett Morford, 20, and said Morford’s command is taking "appropriate action."

A Japanese force modeled after the U.S. Marines and charged with defending outer islands, some of which are claimed by China, will train with American forces.

Gen. Gary Thomas has been under self-quarantine since Tuesday “out of an abundance of caution following notification of close contact with a person who later tested positive for the virus,” according to the Marine Corps.

Receiving two squadrons tested Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni's capacity to provide quarantine areas for a large number of inbound personnel and reduce coronavirus risk, said a Marine Air Group 12 spokesman.

The Marine Corps is investigating how a bloody brawl occurred Saturday night between about two dozen off-duty U.S. military personnel at American Village, an Okinawa tourist hub in Mihama.

The Corps is also putting mitigating steps in place, such as screening Marines and taking their temperatures before the tests, disinfecting equipment and mandating face masks, a spokesman for III Marine Expeditionary Force on Okinawa said Monday.

Marine Corps F-35s are operating alongside British fighters aboard the U.K.’s new Queen Elizabeth carrier.

Lance Cpl. Steven Frank Altamirano is accused of breaking a window and entering the home of a 78-year-old Japanese man.

Bestselling graphic novelist Maximilian Uriarte's latest work follows platoon trying to win hearts and minds in the mountains of Afghanistan while combating the Taliban and the conflict mineral trade.

Marine Corps recruit training at Parris Island, S.C., must be fully gender integrated in five years — one of the requirements highlighted in the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act when it became law in December 2019.

Maj. Gen. Stephen Neary, who commands Marine Corps Forces Europe and Africa, is alleged to have used a derogatory term for Blacks in the presence of other Marines. The Marine Corps did not go into detail about the nature of the incident.

Col. Stephen F. Keane, the military judge assigned to preside over the trial for accused 9/11 attack mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, recused himself from the case, citing potential conflicts of interest.

In this episode of Military Matters, host Rod Rodriguez explores QAnon, the far-right conspiracy theory that falsely claims President Donald Trump is fighting a shadowy cabal of Satanist pedophiles. To uncover more, he talks with QAnon Anonymous podcast co-host Travis View and with journalist and military veteran Jack Murphy.

Marine Corps Col. Riccardo Player told South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster and other military leaders Thursday it’s “too early” to say whether it’ll shutter its boot camp on Parris Island — news that stunned state and local leaders after a report last month.

The Marine Corps has activated a new base on Guam for 5,000 members of III Marine Expeditionary Force set to move there over the next five years from Okinawa, Japan.

Evacuations were underway for a housing area on the east end of Camp Pendleton on Wednesday afternoon after a vegetation fire started on large Marine Corps base.

Sandra Campeau, who owns Great Clips in Beaufort, said it would be difficult to quantify the loss of the recruit depot because the military and business communities are so closely intertwined.

The F-35B Lightning II made contact with a KC-130J during an air-to-air refueling operation, resulting in the fighter jet crashing in California's Imperial County.

Lance Cpl. Shawn M. Miller was initially thought to be a victim of a robbery in the parking lot of a Catholic church, but police said he conspired with three other suspects.

Hunter-killer drones that have been a go-to weapon for troops battling insurgents in Iraq, Afghanistan and Africa are being repurposed for maritime operations, according to U.S. military officials.

A report suggests the Marine Corps is considering closing its only two boot camps, located in Parris Island and San Diego, to create a third, new co-educational depot.

The Marine Corps also remains the only service that does not fully integrate recruits in all levels of training. While Parris Island has recently begun integrating male and female recruits at the company level, it is only done when there are smaller numbers of female recruits.

Military families claim Lendlease Group and its partner, WinnCompanies, put profits before maintenance and the families’ homes were plagued with mold growth and water leaks, and maintenance crews were either unwilling or unqualified to repair the conditions.

Top leaders for each of the Defense Department’s military services are working to remove all personal identifying information from promotions packets, Army Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Thursday.

The Marine Corps Systems Command began fielding the Sig Sauer pistol, based on the company’s Model P320, earlier this month, the Marine Corps said in a news release Wednesday.

More than half of U.S. military installations worldwide have lifted travel restrictions put in place to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, according to the Pentagon.

Praised for exceptional performance, Maj. Gen. Robert F. Castellvi passed command of the 1st Marine Division to Maj. Gen. Roger B. Turner, Jr. during a ceremony Tuesday on Camp Pendleton.

The U.S. military in Japan reported one new patient infected with the coronavirus as of 6 p.m. Wednesday, an individual affiliated with the Marine Corps on Okinawa.

Lance Cpls. Anthony Ruben Whisenant and Ryan Douglas White were arrested Tuesday by federal agents after being indicted in a drug-dealing conspiracy that included the sale of oxycodone pills laced with fentanyl that led to the fatal overdose of another Marine.

Five of the new coronavirus cases reported by the U.S. military on Tuesday are at Yokosuka Naval Base, while the other two are at Marine Corps installations on Okinawa.

This year’s Valiant Shield exercise, which concludes on Friday, involves about 11,000 personnel from the Navy, Air Force, Army and Marine Corps. Roughly 100 aircraft are involved in the U.S.-only exercise, which is intended to hone joint warfighting capabilities.

After a trip around South America, the USS Tripoli has arrived in San Diego and will be used to deploy Marines and their aircraft worldwide.

Retired Marine Sgt. Brendan Cabey officially adopted Ramos, his former military working dog, on Sept. 11, in front of the USS Constitution in Boston.

Roughly 250 Marines and sailors from Camp Pendleton, Calif., will deploy to help battle the 25 wildfires still burning across state that have stretched firefighting resources to the limit, military officials announced late Wednesday.

When a Marine Corps tank company disbanded, 39 of its reservists transferred to the Idaho Army National Guard.

Sgt. Maj. Michael P. Woods said he knows that anxiety among service members and their families is high following coronavirus-related lockdowns on Okinawa, but discipline must be maintained as liberty is restored.

New coronavirus infections were reported by Naval Air Facility Atsugi and the Marines on Okinawa.

Seventy-five years ago, 70,000 marines battled for control of the island of Iwo Jima. Harry Jackson Sr. was among them. He would eventually earn a Silver Star for his heroics, but his family believes he should have the Medal of Honor.

It has been 70 years since Baldomero Lopez sacrificed his life to save his Marine platoon, smothering a grenade with his body during the Korean War’s Battle of Incheon. Tampa will honor its Medal of Honor recipient at noon on the Sept. 15 anniversary of his death.

F-16s of the 510th and 555th Fighter Squadrons from Aviano Air Base, Italy, are also participating in the exercise for the first time.

The Army, Air Force and Coast Guard already have policies in place that forbid military members from using products made with hemp or hemp seed oil.

Here's a rundown of changes to pandemic-related restrictions for some service members in Japan.

President Rodrigo Duterte granted a pardon to a U.S. Marine who killed a transgender Filipino woman in 2014.

What is called a line of duty investigation, done by the expeditionary force, will review operational aspects, including leadership and whether training protocols were followed ahead of the July 30 incident off the coast of California.

As a result of its review, Marine Corps Installations Pacific held an all-hands seminar to teach Marines about the fire suppression system, improved the signage regarding the system’s use and increased restrictions on the use of open flames near the flight line.

There were no injuries reported, and officials confirmed all crew members aboard made it out safely.

A U.S. Marine convicted of killing a transgender woman in the Philippines will remain behind bars while a court considers an appeal against a decision to release him early, a senior government official said.

Marine Corps efforts to dispose of unexploded bombs on Palau could serve as a blueprint for exercises in other parts of the Pacific during the coronavirus pandemic, according to service spokesman.

Typhoon Maysak came and went this week, punching Okinawa with gusts as high as 101 mph, but leaving only minor damage to U.S. bases and no injuries behind.

Donovan Bowin lured the runaway 14-year-old girl to the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms and illegally slipped the girl onto the base, where deputies found her Tuesday.

This year’s Marine Rotational Force — Darwin mission has been curtailed by the coronavirus pandemic, which forced Marines to quarantine for two weeks after arriving in Australia.

U.S. Marine Corps veteran Ray Stith celebrated his 100th birthday on Friday with a parade, proclamations in his honor and a visit from Medal of Honor recipient, and fellow West Virginian, Hershel "Woody" Williams.