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A merchant ship would have "likely pierced" a berthing compartment with 120 sleeping sailors had the impact been 100 feet forward.

Three F/A-18 Super Hornets from the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman were destroyed in mishaps during a combat-heavy deployment to the Red Sea.

More than half of the respondents strongly or somewhat approved of using military force to take on possible drug traffickers.

From recreated handwriting to portraits and landscapes to tiny birthmarks, tattoos preserve memories of the lost.

One pilot said "it feels like we are designing a force that looks like Ukraine with drones and robots, forgetting that our primary thing is maneuver. We do that very well."

Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Eric Smith requested a waiver from the Marine Corps Uniform Board to not wear the commandant’s official cover.

Hundreds of U.S. troops have been denied VA claims linked to 1980s duty in Panama amid toxic chemicals and Agent Orange remnants.

In the years between World War I and II, the U.S. military had ambitious and prescient ideas for war in the Pacific.

Another $800 million is being directed towards "critical" repairs in military housing.

The new formal wear will be widely available in 2026. The current class of Space Force trainees will be the first to graduate with the uniforms.

“Words are weapons.”

As the Corps turns 250, plenty of Marines want to stay in the service.

Lt. Col. William “Skate” Parks led the 480th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron to a total 108 aerial kills, and personally defended the USS Harry S. Truman from attack.

Troops lined the streets of the capital for a fallen soldier procession for Spc. Sarah Beckstrom, following Wednesday’s shooting. 

We couldn’t do this without you, and we sure as hell wouldn’t want to.

The shooting took place outside the Farragut West Metro station in downtown D.C., near the White House.

Lt. Col. Calischaran G. James was fired as commander of Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 36 as “an active investigation is underway,” Corps officials said.

Staff Sgt. Jacob Hill, who was sent to Washington, D.C., with the Alabama National Guard, died from a medical emergency earlier this month.

Army 1st Lt. Madison Faust said that trying to set a new record “felt like that was a good lead-by-example moment.”