Marine Corps and Army faceoff during Hawaii exercise February 19 Marines with Bravo Battery, 1st Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment, fire a M777 155 mm howitzer during live-fire training as part of Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise at Pohakuloa Training Area, Hawaii, July 17, 2018. (Lance Cpl. Adam Montera/Marine Corps) At one point 20 Marines and 20 soldiers ditched their cannons and fought each other. No, it wasn’t a turf war or a late night bar fight. It was on the South Range training area aboard the Schofield barracks
on Oahu, Hawaii, within a simulated town as part of the exercise Steel Crucible, an Army-led exercise that saw Marines and soldiers fight against each other and work side-by-side in an island-hopping campaign against the fictional nation and near-peer threat called Torbia.
Women will attend boot camp at San Diego Marine Corps Recruit Depot for first time in history December 15, 2020 A drill instructor with Oscar Company, 4th Recruit Training Battalion, Platoon 4042, instructs her platoon on Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C., Sept. 6, 2019. (Lance Cpl. Shane T. Manson/Marine Corps) For the first time in Marine Corps history, women will be trained at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego. The Corps’ West Coast recruit depot traditionally has trained enlisted men born west of the Mississippi River, but all women who enlist in the Corps have been shipped to Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina.
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SANTA FE – The New Mexico congressional delegation is raising questions about a COVID-19 outbreak among a group of Oregon Army National Guard soldiers who returned to their home base in El Paso after being deployed to Kosovo earlier this year.
In a letter to the Pentagon, the state’s senators and Congress members said 70 infantry soldiers had tested positive for the coronavirus as of Tuesday, a jump from 10 on Friday.
“We have also learned that dozens more are showing symptoms consistent with coronavirus and remain concerned about self-isolation and quarantine conditions the Army has put into place while monitoring and treating these service members,” the delegation wrote in the letter to U.S. Army Secretary Ryan D. McCarthy.