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MCRD San Diego experienced a sudden switch of its name to “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints,” according to the Marine Corps Times. And no one has a clue how it [...]

Back in 2018, we wrote about Calvin Carlstrom, a retired 23 year US Marine Veteran who was fighting to obtain a CCW permit in New Jersey for his job as a security guard. We talked with him today [...]

It’s a birthday party like no other and always includes cake cutting with a sword …an art in the Marine Corps. For Marines, marksmanship makes it too late to run. [...]

The Commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen David Berger, and the Sgt Maj of the Corps, Troy Black, released the USMC Birthday Message for 2019. Birthday messages from Commandants are generally [...]

It was a bittersweet homecoming for the family of US Marine PFC Grady Crawford. It was 70 years since his family received the telegram that he went missing in the Battle of Chosin Reservoir [...]

Lance Cpl. Byron Darnell Law II and Lance Cpl. David Javier Salazar-Quintero are in a heap of trouble both with the Feds and the Marine Corps. They are both active duty Marines assigned to 1st [...]

The 19th Sergeant Major of the United States Marine Corps has been selected: SgtMaj Troy Black. He will take over the reins from SMMC Ronald L. Green in a ceremony this summer. SMMCj Green will [...]

Marine Maj Gen David Furness is the Commander of the 2nd Marine Division out of Camp LeJeune. He issued a policy letter on on April 16 that requires troops to get off their butts, clean up the [...]

Two Marine pilots were killed on Saturday night near Yuma, Arizona, when their USMC Viper (Bell AH-1Z Viper) attack helicopter crashed in what the USMC described as a “single aircraft [...]

First Lt Matthew Kraft is a Marine attached to the 1st Battalion, 7th Marines out of Twenty-nine Palms. He planned a 10 day hike in the back country of the High Sierras starting on February 23 [...]