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By SETH ROBSON | STARS AND STRIPES Published: December 16, 2020 CAMP SOUMAGAHARA, Japan — The Marine Corps is downsizing its command-and-control sites in the field to something light, mobile and suitable for work within range of an adversary’s firepower. Marines of 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, out of Camp Lejeune, N.C., working in a forest clearing from three Humvee-sized vehicles demonstrated the concept during Exercise Forest Light in Gunma prefecture. With a few maps and radios, a dozen Marines coordinated a simulated air assault Tuesday involving 1,000 Marines and troops of t...

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 bee...

A new Navy shipbuilding plan calls for building 10 light amphibious warships that can transport up to 75 Marines.

A proposed five-year shipbuilding plan the White House plans to soon unveil would give the US Navy a much bigger budget, but slash plans for several of its... 11.12.2020, Sputnik International