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Enlisted Marines with Hornet specialties will be offered retraining, reassignment or career dead ends.

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For Marines who have toiled over assembling airfields in austere environments, relief may be on the way.

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The technology can detect threats and distinguish them from non-threats, such as birds, faster than a human operator can.

A policy that causes surviving spouses to lose their benefits if they remarry suggests their sacrifice ends the moment they seek a new chapter in life.

The decision came only one month after the bag fees went into effect.

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The U.S. defense budget request for Fiscal Year 2027 has raised the prospect of an increase in the monthly stipend paid out to troops in dangerous regions.

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The Air Force once explored the idea of a chemical weapon that would make enemy soldiers sexually irresistible to one another — striking a blow to morale.

“I demand that the producers of this disgusting and juvenile war porn remove my voice immediately,” Steve Downes wrote in a post on X.

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The patch of contested real estate known as the Battle of Getlin’s Corner is also remembered for an officer who stood out in a field full of valor.

The Defense Department wants to split its funding for the military health system to protect military facilities and care.

Gen. Dan Caine characterized the hostile actions as “all below the threshold of restarting major combat operations at this point.”

Freshly minted recon Marines were showing up to their first units less prepared than expected, service leaders said. The Marine Corps is out to fix that.

It was the first apparent attempt to use military force since last month’s ceasefire announcement.

Adm. Brad Cooper said Iran was trying to interfere with a U.S. military operation to open the Strait of Hormuz to commercial traffic.

The ripple effects of the Iran war have spread to Laos, where fuel shortages have forced the cancellation or curtailment of searches by U.S recovery teams.

It was not immediately clear which countries the U.S. operation would aid or how the operation would work.

The Moroccan army said the service members went missing near a cliff. The incident remains under investigation and the search is ongoing.

The move comes as a rift over the Iran war widens between President Donald Trump and Europe.

The U.S. Marine Corps had zero first-person view drones in service as of October 2025.

The U.S. military-run body tasked with monitoring the Israel-Hamas ceasefire and boosting aid to Gaza is set to be shut down, seven diplomats told Reuters.

The Department of Defense announced on Friday that it had struck deals with seven leading artificial intelligence companies.

The Government Accountability Office found the DoD used a mix of unsound sampling practices and inconsistent processes to set cost of living payments.

The new Ground Reconnaissance Course is one of two programs replacing the service’s Basic Reconnaissance Course.

This case of executive overreach by Nixon in Cambodia during the Vietnam War led to the passage of the War Powers Act on Nov. 7, 1973.

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