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The Marines of Lima Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, is a co-ed company, first for the region The platoon of women trained along five all-male platoons, a model that was first tested out in South Carolina  Six female drill instructors helped to teach the class when their training began in February Two weeks ago, the Marines earned their titles by completing the Crucible, which consists of three days of hiking and completing small exercises using lessons from the months of boot camp Bec...

Michael McDowell Fellow, International Security Program Michael H.C. McDowell is a Fellow in New Americas International Security Program, focusing on the alarmingly high death rate and critical injury toll on soldiers, Marines, airmen and women, and Navy personnel, in military tactical vehicle "rollovers"-- Humvees, Light Armored Vehicles, Bradley Fighting Vehicles, heavy troop trucks, dune-buggy-like MRZRs, etc. The fatalities, all in training, on these "vics," now exceed deaths in combat. Eac...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Kindall Johnson woke up early that October Saturday to get to...

Kaitlin Washburn and Lisa Gutierrez, The Kansas City Star Kindall Johnson woke up early that October Saturday to get to his fraternity’s Homecoming Day tailgate. On the way out the door of his parents’ house, he shouted a goodbye to his mother, Kathy Davis: “Love ya, Ma!” Davis watched her 22-year-old son, the youngest of her three boys, jog out to his car and leave, like he did any other day. He would never return. Johnson, not even a year out of the Marine Corps, a student struggling ...

Marine inspector general suspended amid tank sinking probe FILE - In this July 31, 2020, file photo, the U.S. flag was lowered to half-staff at Park Semper Fi in San Clemente, Calif., after a seafaring assault vehicle sank off the coast of Southern California. Marines are training in seafaring tanks for the first time since nine men died when when one of the troop carriers sank off the Southern California coast during an exercise on July 30, 2020. The Orange County Register repo...

Families of fallen service members address Congress on preventable AAV accident Deadly Marines training accident Replay Video UP NEXT Ahead of a fatal training accident, Marine Pfc. Jack Ryan Ostrovsky shared his reservations about the safety of assault amphibious vehicles, or AAVs, according to his father, Peter Ostrovsky. "A week before the AAV incident, Jack Ryan told me about his concerns with the AAVs, and that they sink all the time. It was hard for me to believe that statement, but n...

‘A CALIBRATED, PRACTICAL APPROACH’: Speaking at a meeting of the G-7 foreign ministers in London, Secretary of State Antony Blinken declined to return fire in the wake of incendiary statements from North Korea in reaction to President Joe Biden’s reference to the North’s nuclear program as a “serious threat.”

Why These Infantry Marines Have a New Obsession with Chess U.S. Marine Pvt. Alec Sapp plays a game of chess with another Marine in between training classes as part of the eighth week of the Infantry Marine Course on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, March 17, 2021. (U.S Marine Corps/Lance Cpl. Drake Nickel) 4 May 2021 CAMP PENDLETON -- Its kind of like Fight Club. Except its mental, not physical, and Marines cant stop talking about it. In the recently concluded first pilot of the ne...

“I don’t think that the gun had anything to do with it,” Davis said. Yet, research shows that easy access to a firearm can be deadly. “There’s a lot of factors leading to this epidemic, but the most important one is guns,” said Chris Marvin, who served for seven years as a U.S. Army officer and Black Hawk helicopter pilot in Afghanistan. He currently sits on the Everytown Veterans Advisory Council. “It’s so clear that the gun is a leading reason why we have a suicide crisis.” ...

USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker: May 3, 2021 May 3, 2021 10:29 AM • Updated: May 3, 2021 12:10 PM These are the approximate positions of the U.S. Navy’s deployed carrier strike groups and amphibious ready groups throughout the world as of May 3, 2021, based on Navy and public data. In cases where a CSG or ARG is conducting disaggregated operations, the chart reflects the location of the capital ship. Total U.S. Navy Battle Force: 296 In Japan Ens. Chris Colliver, formerly a Chief El...