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I hope you’ve enjoyed this look back on June of 1955! The final week of June 70 years ago was packed with activity – good and bad – in Pulaski County, so let’s get right to it. Here’s what was ...

A run-of-the-mill Instagram post about uniform standards backfired when soldiers and Marines realized it was about Audie ...

At The Basic School, freshly commissioned second lieutenants undergo six months of intense training designed to prepare them for the complexities of leading Marines. This segment walks through the ...

Incompetent leaders misled the Marine Corps into ‘force design.’ It badly needs to return to conventional combat power.

Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps Carlos A. Ruiz paid a special visit to 8th Communication Battalion’s Corporals Course graduation ceremony.

To commission as a Marine Corps officer, you must: Be a U.S. citizen; Be at least 18 at the time of application, and no older than 28 in most cases ...

The assistant commandant of the Marine Corps was nominated by President Donald Trump to serve as the vice chairman of the ...

As part of the year-long 250th birthday celebration for the U.S. Marine Corps, numerous events are taking place around Nashville this week.

The 15th annual Marine Corps League Mud Run is on Saturday, June 7 in Pinnacle at Jomeokee Park and Campground. Expect lots of mud, obstacles, climbing, mud pits, fire hoses and fun!

Every Marine officer is eventually assigned a Military Occupational Specialty (MOS), but the process behind these assignments is more structured than many realize. This video explains how officer MOS ...

Marine Attack Squadron 231 took another step toward the service’s retirement of the AV-8B Harrier II to make way for the F-35 Lightning II.