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Get all our news and commentary in your inbox at 6 a.m. ET. email Confederate Military Base Names Just Met Their Gettysburg A Black admiral, a gruff Marine, a never-Trumper, and the maker of a viral video slamming Confederate sympathizers? Say goodbye to “Fort Bragg” and the rest. Say goodbye to Fort Bragg. And Forts Benning, Lee, Hood, and all the other U.S. military installations named for Confederates from the Civil War. On Friday, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced ...

Doing more with less is something Marines have always prided themselves on. In Iraq just a little over a decade ago, the most forward-deployed Marines in Anbar Province were still using M16 rifles with iron-sight alignment. Yet back in the chow halls at the mega-bases in Iraq, youd find Army soldiers with fresh haircuts, clean cammies and the Cadillac of rifles. They carried the lighter M4s with collapsible buttstocks and ACOG sites. Broom handles? Always. Infrared aiming lasers or SureFire ...

The Marines wants to start fielding new gear faster than ever September 8, 2016 Marines with 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment prepare a Weaponized Multi-Utility Tactical Transport vehicle for a patrol at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., July 13, 2016. The system is a multifunction force multiplier configured to persist, protect and project the small unit built by the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory. The lab is conducting a Marine Air-Ground Task Force Integrated Experiment in ...

Report: Marine corps investigating nude photo scandal – The Hillby wpjljron Sunday, March 5th, 2017.Report: Marine corps investigating nude photo scandal – The HillThe Defense Department is conducting an investigation of a number of Marines who allegedly disseminated nude photos of female service members online. A story on the investigation was published Saturday by The Center for Investigative Reporting and was completed by the nonprofit news organization The War Horse, which reports on wa...

By Dan Parsons | December 21, 2020 Estimated reading time 5 minutes, 59 seconds. The U.S. military’s appetite for small vertical-lift drones could be worth more than $1 billion if both the Army and Marine Corps follow through on plans to equip every 10 troops with a “squadcopter,” according to a new report on drone economics from aerospace investment firm Levitate Capital.  Recognizing the tactical utility and relative affordability of small consumer drones, both services have for ye...

Park students embrace Jeremy Boone’s Desire to Lead program This fall students at St. Louis Park High School took part in a different kind of leadership program. Instead of current captains and those in experienced leadership roles, head strength and conditioning coach and biology teacher Jessica Gust helped guide the next group of prospective leaders through Jeremy Boone’s Desire to Lead program. The Dec. 14 livestream on Facebook here. Participants of the Desire to Lead program at S...

Robotic targets line Camp Lejeune’s range G-36, which opened Dec. 12. (Courtesy Ralph Petroff) 14 Dec 2020 After years of training and qualifying on traditional ranges with stationary targets, the Marine Corps has turned a new page in warfare with the certification of a sophisticated "range of the future" aboard Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Designed for company-size live-fire exercises, Range Golf-36 features, among other things, trenches, surrounding woods that would provide cover for the e...

The future promises to be a throwback to Pacific campaigns of old.

The future promises to be a throwback to Pacific campaigns of old.

He perceives as the kurdish threat to turkey and hes going to do all kinds of things to go after the kurds in syria because now the path will be open for him to do so, and for president trump to take erdogans word without further checking with his advisers is a colossal mistake. >> let me ask you, colonel, about afghanistan. afghanistan, of course, likely theres going to be a drawdown there. "wall street journal" has been traveling with the marine corps commandant to visit troops overseas. they ...