Marine Raiders Ordered to Stop Wearing Multicam Uniforms to Align Elite Unit with Broader Service
The special operations Marines will abandon the pattern worn by units such as Army Special Forces on Jan. 1, a spokesman said ...
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Marine Corps rolls out plan to overhaul marksmanship training for the first time in a century
A major overhaul of how Marines learn to shoot and track their skills will begin to roll out across the service in the next few months, according to a Marine Corps-wide Marksmanship Campaign Plan ...
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How the Marine Corps is retaining a lot of its first-term Marines
The Marine Corps retained more first-term Marines in a single year than it has in more than a decade, marking another step towards the service’s overhaul of how it keeps Marines in uniform.
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The evolution of the Marine Corps’ Eagle, Globe and Anchor
“But, for a lot of folks, I think it’s kind of the start of a new beginning ... the Marine Corps. Marines wore a device that displayed a fouled anchor in 1776. Conner said that changes ...
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Sweat, Sacrifice and Camel Spiders: Marine Corps Museum's New Exhibits Capture Global War on Terrorism
David McGrath on Wednesday stood in front of a new exhibit in the National Museum of the Marine Corps that depicts a ... Every dress uniform represents a Marine killed in action.
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Marines barely meet annual recruiting goals, but see encouraging signs
(Sgt. Cutler Brice/U.S. Marine Corps) The Marine Corps inched past their recruiting goal for enlisted Marines this fiscal year, but nonetheless got beyond their goals for new officers and enlisted ...
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New liberty rules ban Japan-based troops from off-base drinking establishments after 1 a.m.
The new rules echo portions of a Marine Corps liberty order on Okinawa from ... It also prompted calls from Okinawa’s legislature for changes to the status of forces agreement governing the ...
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Third service member charged with sexual assault in year of discontent on Okinawa
The Marine Corps ... for changes to the status of forces agreement governing the U.S. military population in Japan. U.S. Forces Japan commander Lt. Gen. Ricky Rupp announced in July a “new ...
Military Times15d
Veterans health records need progress, not congressional sabotage
Joe Chenelly, national executive director of AMVETS, calls on the VA to swiftly implement its new electronic health ... executive director of AMVETS, a Marine Corps combat veteran of the wars ...
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Troops in Japan Banned from Late-Night Drinking After String of Alleged Sexual Assaults on Okinawa
A spokesperson for U.S. Forces Japan, or USFJ, confirmed to Military.com in an email on Wednesday that a new liberty order ... In July, Marine Corps bases in the country beefed up sobriety checks ...
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Scientists have captured Earth’s climate over the last 485 million years. Here’s the surprising place we stand now.
Compared with graphs based solely on climate models, which tend to depict smaller and slower swings in temperatures, the new timeline is ... some 85 percent of marine species disappeared as ...