American flags domestically and abroad will be lowered to half-staff until Sept. 1 in honor of country singer Dolly Parton, who passed Tuesday.

A new Marine Corps strategy document published Wednesday outlines the service’s vision and planning for the next decade and a half.

On Aug. 21, an explosion rocked a house in Twentynine Palms, California. Local Marines and Navy corpsmen “quickly ran toward it.”

The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln is expected to dock in Thailand next week, according to a Thai official.

The Marine Corps and Navy are mandating annual gas mask fit training, with the move intended in part to “reinforce grooming compliance,” the services said.

The charter agreement, the Corps’ second since 2021, allows the service to experiment without having to invest heavily in in-house shipbuilding.

Family members of U.S. troops and veterans are stranded at a camp in Qatar that the U.S. is planning to close Sept. 30, an aid organization said.