‘Prepare your family’: Marine Reserve commander gives warlike safety brief
In a March 26 message on his official letterhead, Lt. Gen. Leonard F. Anderson IV asked his Marines, "Are you truly ready to deploy, fight, and win?"
By Hope Hodge Seck
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US Army Special Operations Command takes home top prize in sniper competition
Seventeen elite sniper teams from across services and partner nations put their skills to the test this month at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
By Brooke Griswold
The Marine Corps amphibious assault vehicle that sank and killed 9 should never have left the ramp, slides into investigation show
Beyond the two potential leaks, the slides into the investigation showed the emergency egress lighting system was stuck in the disabled position, locking the Marines and sailor in darkness while the vehicle rapidly sank off the California coast.
By Philip Athey
‘The best job I ever had’: Marines remember their tanks as the Corps ditches its armor
Though Marines, “have fought in every clime and place where we could take a gun,” they won’t be taking tanks with them anymore, at least not their own.
By Todd South
Corps looking to refine Marine Combat Training to prepare for a future battlefield
Unlike the plan for infantry Marines, the Corps is not currently considering extending MCT, but rather is looking at ways to improve training techniques.
By Philip Athey
New solutions are needed to help with the military suicide stigma
New solutions, such as those put forth by the Brandon Act or a Crisis Response Plan, are needed immediately to help with the military suicide crisis, says the author of this commentary.
By Brandon Alward
Florida cop, Marine and Army Reserve veteran hailed at funeral for seeing everyone as family
Thousands attended services Tuesday for the Tampa police officer, who died saving strangers from a wrong-way driver.
By Anastasia Dawson, Tampa Bay Times
Addressing gun suicide should be a top priority for the new VA secretary
The veteran community must have the honest conversation about guns that it has long avoided, says the author of this commentary.
By Chris Marvin
California Marine killed in Camp Pendleton car accident identified
Two other Marines were injured in the accident.
By Philip Athey
Indiana Marine donates kidney to stranger after seeing Facebook post
When the staff sergeant decided to answer her friend’s Facebook post, she had no idea her organ would be going to a Marine veteran.
By Laura Arwood, Kokomo (Ind.) Tribune via the AP
The Spouse Angle Podcast — Up this week: Behind a New Initiative to Support Military Families of Color
Two spouses share their own experiences as women of color in the military community.
By Military Times staff
Marine veteran sentenced for smuggling guns to Haiti to train army, become president
The Marine firearms instructor got a friend to alter paperwork claiming he was a Marine colonel on orders to Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
By Todd South