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New in 2024: Marines build 3rd Littoral Regiment to fight peer threats
Another littoral regiment is planned for Guam in 2025.
By Todd South
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G-7 diplomats reject Chinese, North Korean, Russian aggression
The talks will pave the way for action by G-7 leaders when they meet next month in Hiroshima.
Blue Angels begin the shift to Super Hornets
The move to the Super Hornet will mark the first time the elite Navy and Marine fighter jet demonstration team has changed aircraft since it moved from the A-4F Skyhawk II to the F/A-18 Hornet back in 1986.
By Melissa Nelson Gabriel, Pensacola News Journal
Marines will field counter-drone missiles for JLTV and a single radar that replaces five others
The air defense equipment is vital to Marine Corps near-peer competition in contested environments.
By Todd South
The Corps seeks Reaper drones in budget request, but will only add 100 Marines in 2020
The Corps plans to buy 3 hunter-killer Reaper drones. It will be a first for the Corps operating a group five drone.
By Shawn Snow
This big company just started a new vet transition campaign
The company is also enlisting the help of active-duty troops, veterans and military spouses to share their real-life transition stories on social media in hopes that it will spark online conversations around the issue.
By Natalie Gross
US lawmaker links small defense firms in Maryland
A Maryland congressman is launching a local consortium on Tuesday to link small aerospace and defense firms and educational institutions in the Pentagon’s backyard — so the companies can solve common problems like workforce shortages.
By Joe Gould
Trump cancels meeting with Putin at summit this weekend
The decision is based on rising tensions between Russia and Ukraine on the Black Sea, Trump tweeted.
By Christopher Woody, Business Insider
Memorabilia from astronauts Armstrong, Glenn up for auction
A series of auctions involving some 2,000 artifacts and mementoes owned by Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon, begins Thursday and runs through November 2019.
Marine with alleged neo-Nazi connections booted from the Marine Corps
Lance Cpl. Vasillios G. Pistolis has been booted from the Corps.
By Shawn Snow
Marines receive new advanced air defense system as air threats loom
The Corps plans to buy six new G/ATOR systems, to the tune of $225M.
By Shawn Snow
Off to Europe: Trump to meet worried NATO heads, then Putin
With the established global order on shaky footing, President Donald Trump’s weeklong trip to Europe will test already strained bonds with some of the United States’ closest allies, then put him face to face with the leader of the country whose electoral interference was meant to help put him in office.
By Jill Colvin, The Associated Press and Jonathan Lemire, The Associated Press