Jerel Boykins was detained by federal authorities at Camp Pendleton shortly after sheriff’s deputies found his 23-year-old wife dead in her apartment. Boykins was being held in Orange County Jail in lieu of $1 million bail and expected to appear in court on Monday.

An amphibious vehicle hit a gas line sparking a fire that injured 14 Marines and a sailor during a training exercise at a California base earlier this week, a US military official said Friday.

Eric Smith was awarded the Navy Cross for his courageous actions on April 6, 2004, while in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Smith was initially awarded the Silver Star, but the Marine Corps upgraded it.

Organizers of a Marine Corps charity race in New Jersey marred by terrorism a year ago say they were forced to move Saturday's event to a neighboring town because of a sharp increase in registrants.

A group of Japanese airmen recently visited Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni to learn more about the F-35 Lightning II ahead of the stealth fighter’s expected arrival at Misawa Air Base by 2019.

Staff Sgt. Joseph W. Manning is stationed at the Marine Corps Combat Engineer School at Camp Lejeune and now faces being discharged. Staff Sgt. Michael Joseph Chesny, stationed at Cherry Point Air Station, is under “administrative punishment.”

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Two hundred and fifty Marines from the squadron out of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, San Diego, are midway through a six-month Unit Deployment Program rotation to Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Okinawa, he said.

Six Marines are in critical condition and another six are in serious condition after their amphibious-assault vehicle caught fire Wednesday morning while training at Camp Pendleton, the Marine Corps said.

A Camp Lejeune Marine colonel has been sentenced to more than five years behind bars after being convicted of sexually abusing a child.

Amphibious units roared across sea and land in Djibouti for two weeks to train in the type of austere desert setting they’d encounter in Mideast hot spots.

The Marine division that fought the fierce and bloody battle to capture Iwo Jima during World War II recently celebrated its 75th anniversary with a ceremony at Camp Hansen.

The U.S. military took a series of preventative measures after the crash, from adding wake turbulence to flight simulators to education and instruction, the statement added.

An order to evacuate Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island was canceled over the weekend after weather forecasters projected that Hurricane Irma would move further west.

The Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow wanted to bring something new to the High Desert community, and based on locals' reviews, the rodeo didn't fail to excite.

Pfc. Michael Philomeno Giannattasio was found unresponsive during land navigation training on the Basic Reconnaissance Course on Aug. 30. The Marine’s death is being probed by both the command and Naval Criminal Investigative Service.

The U.S. Navy prepared seven warships including an aircraft carrier, and the National Guard readied nearly 20,000 servicemembers to respond to areas in Hurricane Irma’s path as the storm reached Cuba on Friday en route to Florida, defense officials said.

A few weeks from his 22nd birthday, an honorary member of the Marine Corps League's Somerset Detachment No. 1285 is making his mark under extraordinary circumstances.

A former Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island drill instructor linked to the hazing and abuse of a Muslim trainee has reportedly reached a plea agreement and will testify against a fellow Marine.

The aircraft was recovered in about 165 feet of water approximately 18 miles off the coast of Queensland by the USNS Salvor and Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit One. It will be taken to Hawaii for analysis.

The Marine told police he didn’t know why the bullet was in his bag and that it must have been there from a previous trip to the United States when he borrowed a pistol from his father to practice at a shooting range.

A former Marine Corps Recuit Depot Parris Island drill instructor alleged to have participated in the hazing and abuse of a Muslim trainee — and who was scheduled to be tried in the military’s highest court — will now have his case heard in a low-level proceeding that’s not open to the public.

The Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center put a twist on the standard holiday weekend safety briefing with a humorous video posted to social media.

Lt. Col. Joshua Kissoon is the highest-ranked Marine to be referred to a court-martial in the wake of the hazing and recruit abuse scandal.

Japanese broadcaster NHK reported that the Osprey was flying between Yamaguchi Prefecture and Okinawa. White smoke was seen rising from the aircraft on Monday,.

Cpl. Miles Hogan pulled over to help a driver involved in a crash, but as he was helping him from the vehicle they were hit by another car. The impact sent them flying through the air. Hogan collected himself and ran back to the man, who was laying in the road.

The U.S. military says it is achieving its primary goal in Afghanistan’s embattled Helmand province by enabling Afghan forces to expand security zones around the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah.

Jason Kelly, Gabe Magnison and Paul Mangieri are 2017 grads who played roles in their football team's winningest season in 25 years.

“Opha May,” an English bulldog puppy, “stepped onto the yellow footprints” — the same footprints where newly arrived recruits plant their feet — Monday, according to depot spokesman Capt. Adam Flores.

The bodies of Capt. Benjamin R. Cross, Cpl. Nathaniel F. Ordway and Lance Cpl. Ruben P. Velasco were recovered from the crashed tilt-rotor aircraft and will soon be returned to their families, according to a statement from the Japan-based III Marine Expeditionary Force.

Black Construction Corp. of Harmon will build the range at Northwest Field, a little-used airfield from World War II that is part of Andersen Air Force Base in the northern part of the Pacific U.S. territory. Eleven firms had bid on the job.

In recognition of the 75th Anniversary of the first “Montford Pointers,” family members of four Montford Point Marines were presented Congressional Gold Medals on Thursday during a ceremony

Col. Daniel H. Wilson, 55, of Mason, Wash., was charged on Nov. 15 by military officials of violating four articles under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

President Donald Trump will inspect a Predator drone and meet with Marines at a Yuma, Arizona, Border Patrol station ahead of a major rally Tuesday night in Phoenix as he seeks to promote his administration's push to tighten immigration enforcement, senior officials said.

In Marine Brig. Gen. Roger B. Turner Jr.'s office on the small, dusty base of Camp Shorab in Afghanistan, there is a map of Helmand province and a white board marked with half a dozen goals. One of them reads: "Get thru fighting season."

Federal authorities say Southern California Marines were recruited for a scheme that bilked the government's military health insurance provider out of $67 million.

Defense counsel for Gunnery Sgt. Joseph A. Felix requested that the judge limit discussion of the death of former Marine recruit Raheel Siddiqui as it pertains to an allegation of obstruction — just one of several violations of military code Felix is charged with.

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A Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft flew over Japan’s northern Island of Hokkaido for the first time on Friday as part of an exercise involving the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force.

The U.S. government awarded a key contract this week to lay the groundwork for 4,000 Okinawa-based Marines to move to Guam within the next decade.

Conflicting statements lead to a New River Air Station Marine being charged nearly eight months after a shooting, authorities say.

It was late when Sgt. Rafael Aldama and his family arrived at their new apartment, so they decided to lock the truck they had rented and unpack the next day. But the next morning the truck — and all their belongings — was gone.

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Marine Corps light-armored vehicles and Japanese tanks rolled across the island of Hokkaido Wednesday during drills designed to hone the allies’ ability to fight side by side in wartime.

Marine Staff Sgt. William Joseph “Billy” Kundrat was among the 16 U.S. service members killed in a July 10 plane crash in Mississippi. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery on Wednesday.

Dillon Hopper’s service with the Marines ended in January, according to federal records, several months after the Anti-Defamation League says he took charge of the white supremacist group Vanguard America.

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The 15-day mission rehearsal exercise with the Marines is the final step to certifying the Georgian unit is ready to deploy with coalition forces in support of Operation Freedom Sentinel.

A former Marine corporal who was medically discharged in 2011 after suffering from several injuries will fight through the pain in order to compete in the 2017 Invictus Games in Toronto, Ontario, at the end of September.

Ben Cross, a first lieutenant in the Marine Corps, was on board an aircraft during a training exercise when it crashed into the Coral Sea off Australia last weekend. His death left a terrible void for a close-knit group of friends from his high school in Bethel, ME.

Stasinos family run the stand and raise their crops along with turkeys for Thanksgiving on the 139-acre Silsby Farm.

SDSU's midday practice Friday at MCAS Miramar was preceded by the Aztecs seniors going to breakfast in the Officers Club with members of the air station's Falcons football team.

Marine Corps Gen. Joe Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, arrived in Hawaii on Thursday to meet with U.S. Pacific Command leadership on the first leg of his second Asia trip in three months.

Marine Sgt. Dietrich Schmieman, a member of the Special Operations Command, died with 14 other Marines and a Navy sailor when their KC-130 cargo plane crashed in a Mississippi soybean field enroute to Yuma, Ariz.

Marine Corps aviation units must cease flying for a 24-hour period within the next two weeks to review safety procedures following two recent Marine crashes that killed 19 troops, the service’s top general ordered Friday.

The U.S. Marine Corps confirmed Nathan Ordway was one of three Marines lost when their MV-22 Osprey aircraft crashed into the sea off the east coast of Australia while trying to land on Saturday.

The Marine Corps plans to fly the MV-22 Osprey during upcoming exercises in northern Japan despite Japanese government requests to ground the controversial tilt-rotor aircraft in the wake of its latest crash.

New guidelines for Marine leadership emphasize coaching and constant interaction between subordinates and leaders. The former Marine Corps Mentoring Program was criticized for being overly formal and for a one-size-fits-all approach to mentoring.

The Marine Corps has deemed its Japan-based MV-22 Ospreys safe to fly despite the Japanese government’s request to ground the fleet of tilt-rotor aircraft after a deadly crash off the coast of Australia, a top general said Wednesday.

The United States will send fewer than 100 additional Marines to Afghanistan to bolster the Marine Corps-led mission to train Afghan soldiers and policemen in volatile Helmand province, U.S. defense officials said Wednesday.

Velasco’s mother, Gemily Calzada, said the military will pay the entire cost of the funeral but will provide travel and boarding funds only for Velasco’s birth father, who is her son’s primary beneficiary.

Two of five Marine Corps commanders removed from duty in 2017 were due to a loss of trust and confidence in their ability to lead their units because of the way their troops behaved toward women, Gen. Glenn Walters, the service’s No. 2 general said.

A pilot, a crew chief and an artilleryman were killed Saturday when their MV-22 Osprey crashed off the coast of Australia during a training exercise, the Marine Corps announced late Monday.

The letter followed Gunnery Sgt. Walter Schroder around the Pacific but wouldn't reach him till almost two years later on Parris Island – just 45 miles from where it had originally been mailed, in Walterboro.

In 2005, during his fourth deployment in Afghanistan, he suffered a spinal-cord injury that left him paralyzed from the waist down. While hospitalized, he penned the inspirational words that the Marine Corps later would adopt as its own “Creed of the Wounded Warrior.”

The Japanese government has urged the U.S. military to ground all MV-22 Ospreys in Japan after one of the controversial tilt-rotor aircraft crashed off Australia’s eastern coast Saturday, presumably killing three Marines.

The father of three young children had overdosed on fentanyl, a powerful synthetic painkiller, according to his death certificate.

Jesse Richard’s mother was only a few months pregnant when his father, Thomas Breunig, was one of 13 Marines who died when a river of fire engulfed his barracks at a Japanese training base in October 1979. To him, his father was a picture on a bedroom wall who never got old.

A Camp Pendleton Marine from Iowa died in an accident on the base Friday, Marine officials said Saturday.

The remains of Marine Cpl. Skyler James of Petaluma, Calif., were to be returned home Saturday from North Carolina, where the aviation mechanic was killed by a lightning strike last month while he worked on a tilt-rotor Osprey aircraft.

Lt. Gen. H. Stacy Clardy III said his new position will transfer him from being the J8 deputy director for force management, application and support on the Joint Staff, to the office staff for Defense Secretary retired Marine Gen. James Mattis.

The military trial for a former Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island drill instructor linked to the death of a recruit has been rescheduled, according to officials.

John Fasulo's boyhood curiosity about fireworks formed the backbone of a decades-long Marine Corps career that took him to the frozen forests of Korea and the sweltering jungles of Vietnam. Now, "Dr. Demo" is retiring ... again.

A Marine Corps officer was relieved of command of a Camp Lejeune logistic unit Thursday “due to loss of trust and confidence in his ability to lead,” Marine officials said.

When Harold Berg stepped onto the white beach of Guadalcanal in late July, he carried memories of the battle he participated in 75 years ago, and also of the buddies he left behind.

Retired Marine Corps Master Sgt. Rodney Lee Buentello died June 8, 2016 after saving two teenagers from the Medina River in Bandera, Texas.

A recruit who fell from a building last week at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island has non-life-threatening injuries, according to a Naval Criminal Investigative Service official, who said his agency was not investigating the incident.

Sgt. Owen Lennon was buried at the Orange County Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Goshen, N.Y. on Friday. Staff Sgt. Robert Cox was to be buried Saturday.

The Marine Corps Reserve has grounded its fleet of KC-130T tanker-transport aircraft indefinitely in the wake of the deadly crash earlier this month in Mississippi, a Marine spokeswoman said Thursday.

Wednesday morning, soldiers from multiple branches of the military built a bridge to cross the Arkansas River during a training exercise one mile off US-59 between Van Buren and Barling.

The remains of Sgt. Joseph Murray, one of 16 servicemembers killed in a July 10 plane crash, returned to Jacksonville escorted by a contingent from the North Carolina Patriot Guard Riders Wednesday.

Sgt. Joshua Snowden, one of 15 Marines killed in a military plane crash earlier this month, will be laid to rest Friday at the Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery.

Okinawa prefecture filed suit against Japan’s central government this week in a fresh attempt to block the relocation of Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to a remote part of the island.

The 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment out of Camp Pendleton tested a variety of new gadgets aimed to assist Marines on the battlefield, including small drones, special tablets and satellite phones.

The National Museum of the Marine Corps celebrated the newly-opened Medal of Honor Theater Sunday with showings of “We, The Marines,” narrated by Academy Award-winning actor and Marine Gene Hackman.

The body of Marine Staff Sgt. Robert Cox returned to his family in Ventura Sunday evening, escorted by more than 100 motorcyclists from the Patriot Guard Riders, a volunteer honor guard.

Mexico-born Marine Pvt. Daniel Ramirez Rodriguez was sworn in as an American citizen one day and then graduated boot camp at Parris Island the next.

Staff Sgt. Joshua Snowden once belted out every word of Radney Foster's "Angel Flight" while clutching his camo Marine hat over his heart as tears streamed down his face. That was Josh – a Dallas boy who exhaled patriotism with every breath and had country music in his blood.

Cindy and John Elliott's son, Capt. Sean Endecott Elliott, was among the 15 Marines and one sailor to die when the C-130 in which they were flying exploded over a Mississippi bean field.

The heat index reached triple digits on Thursday afternoon, but that didn’t stop nearly 70 Marines and civilians with the Marine and Family Programs Division in Quantico from enjoying the rich military history offered by the Fredericksburg area.

Lt. Col. Taylor White, commander of Marine Wing Support Squadron 274, was relieved of his command by Maj. Gen. Matthew Glavy, commanding general of the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing. It is the third time within seven weeks that a Marine Corps officer has been reassigned.

A Marine officer was critically wounded after being shot during night live-fire training this month at Pohakuloa Training Area on Hawaii island, officials said.

Cpl. Skyler James, a tiltrotor mechanic assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 261, Marine Aircraft Group 26, and another Marine were struck by lightning while working on an MV-22 Osprey July 11 at New River, according to a release.

The heavily armed fighters peered out of a broken second-story window at their outpost in a crumbling house on the western edge of this shell-shocked city, where the Islamic State is fighting a furious battle to hold on to the capital of its self-declared caliphate.

Marine to teacher to future doctor, Jason Homza seems to be a bit of an overachiever and that fact was recognized recently when he was named a Tillman Scholar.

Onslow County, Camp Lejeune, and the City of Jacksonville joined together Thursday morning in an effort to reduce cost, diminish risks, and capitalize on strengths.

The plane was carrying seven Marines and a Navy hospital corpsman attached to the unit stationed at Camp Lejeune, N.C. The other nine killed in the crash were crewmembers from Stewart Air National Guard Base.

The Marine Corps' 2017 Aviation Plan says the transition to the KC-130J is already complete for active duty units, and the transition for reserve units began in fiscal year 2014.

Nat Fahy, the director of public affairs, said the investigation continues but the woman was not serving in the military and was not a military spouse, though her name has not been released.