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Marine quick-response unit heads for home after Middle East deployment
The special-operations-capable 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, embarked across three Navy ships, left the Mediterranean Sea on Tuesday.
Back to ship: Marines need ships to fight. Will they get them?
Questions loom as to whether existing ship priorities and a new ship design will be funded, floating and fighting in time to keep the Corps relevant.
By Todd South
New warship no ‘tradeoff’ but wanted for future Marine fight
The Corps needs both big and small ships for maritime combat.
By Todd South
Heated exchanges and a flood of suggestions for the Confederate renaming commission
The commission has received 27,000 suggestions.
Here’s your chance to help rename Army posts and Navy ships honoring the Confederacy
The public is invited to submit their ideas for renaming 10 Army posts and two Navy ships.
Fly it, shoot it, sink it, float it home: See Marines sink Navy ship with new missile
A look at Marines sinking a decommissioned Navy ship:
By Todd South
Pentagon budget will shake up ‘legacy’ systems. Lawmakers are shaking back.
Top Pentagon officials are asking Congress to let them use the upcoming budget to shed unneeded weapons in order to invest in forward-looking technologies now. It wasn't an easy conversation.
By Joe Gould
A dozen sailors and Marines have tested positive for COVID-19 aboard amphibious transport dock San Diego
There are several suspected cases aboard the warship Philippine Sea as well, U.S 5th Fleet officials said.
Marine Corps short 6 infantry battalions, Navy short 100 ships, this new strength index says
The Navy and Marine Corps are only “marginally” capable of meeting America’s national security needs, according to a new scorecard.
By Philip Athey
Parochialism, not Congress or naval history, will kill the Space Force
Now is the time for U.S. Space Force to break free from the orbit of its U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy heritage to determine its future as an independent service, say the author this commentary.
By Matt Hipple and Jack McCain
Bonhomme Richard firefighting efforts continuing Monday morning
Two helicopters from Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 3 began helicopter water bucket aerial firefighting operations at 4:30 a.m. on Monday.
By Diana Stancy