Posts Tagged ‘marine’
Face of Defense: Marine Sets Example for Other Women
Marine Cpl. Amy Gentry, a member of the military police who has deployed to Iraq twice as a machine gunner, is an example of how much has changed for women serving in the Marine Corps. Read more here: Face of Defense: Marine Sets Example for Other Women
Marines want to go back to traditional amphibs
More than two years before the amphibious assault ship America enters the fleet, Marine officials have already drawn up early plans for a version of the ship that includes a major component America is missing — a well deck. The “LHA 8 concept,” as it was called in a presentation Monday by Marine Corps Combat Development Command, [...]
Face of Defense: Marine Shapes Silent Drill Platoon
Marine Corps Cpl. Robert Dominguez is the Marine Corps Silent Drill Platoon drill master, tasked with memorizing, teaching and handing down the platoon's unique drill style, called the "slide drill." Read the original post: Face of Defense: Marine Shapes Silent Drill Platoon
2 Marines rescued after F/A-18 crashes
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Two Marine Corps jet pilots were rescued off the South Carolina coast after their aircraft went down. A statement from the Coast Guard on Wednesday said Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort notified the Coast Guard at about 5:17 p.m. that two pilots aboard a Marine F/A-18D Hornet attached to Marine All Weather Fighter Attack [...]
Off to war again for 1st Marine Division
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. — With its first groups of Marines leaving home Friday for the military surge into Afghanistan, the 1st Marine Division gathered this week to honor its combat heritage and march off again to war. Marines, their commanders and veterans of earlier wars gathered Wednesday for a “March Off to War” ceremony [...]
Air, soil to be tested at MCAS Beaufort schools
MARINE CORPS AIR STATION BEAUFORT, S.C. — The Department of Defense is looking into health concerns raised last month by staff and faculty at two schools at the Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort. Marine Gunnery Sgt. Chad McMeen said Thursday that an independent firm will conduct tests on air and soil quality, drinking water, radon levels, [...]
2/2 deserters arrested in Connecticut
Two Marine deserters under the command of a battalion currently in Afghanistan were arrested in Connecticut early Wednesday, Marine officials said. Pvts. David A. Nunziata and Ryan C. Schultz, both 19, had been on an unauthorized absence since Dec. 23, said Maj. Shawn Haney, a spokeswoman with Manpower & Reserve Affairs. Both are assigned to 2nd [...]
Marines quietly wrap up ops in Iraq
By mid-February, Marines will be out of Iraq.After almost seven years of bloodshed, 850 Marines killed in action and a pedigree of hard-won victories that toppled Saddam Hussein’s regime, propped up a new government and quelled a tenacious insurgency, Col. Scott Aiken’s boots will be among the very last in the sand.But before he can [...]
Quantico investigates brig suicide
A Marine captain awaiting a court martial for defrauding the government was found dead from an apparent suicide Sunday in the Marine Corps Base Quantico, Va., brig, base officials said.Capt. Michael A. Webb, 46, was assigned to Marine Manpower and Reserve Affairs before he was confined in August. He was assigned to Quantico’s Headquarters [...]
Navy budget includes 9 ships, kills CG(X)
The Department of the Navy would build nine ships, buy 206 aircraft, postpone construction of the Marine Corps’ Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle and kill the advanced cruiser known as CG(X), according to the $179.1 billion spending plan it submitted Monday to Congress.The budget proposal includes $160.6 billion in baseline funding — [...]
