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Marine Corps commandant to testify before Congress on training fatalities By (0) General David Berger, Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, is expected to be asked in May by the House Armed Services Committee to testify on on a Marine training accident last year. Pool Photo by Anna Moneymaker/UPI | License Photo Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger will testify before Congress in May on the number of deaths during military training exercises, like one in 2020 in which nine service members drowned in an assault amphibious vehicle. Photo courtesy of U.S. Defense Department ...

Sleep Disorders Are Skyrocketing Among US Military Personnel, Study Finds An Army Reserve wheeled vehicle mechanic with the 88th Military Police Company, headquartered at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., sleeps in a van along with fellow competitors after finishing a night land navigation course in 2018. (Michel Sauret/U.S. Army) 12 Apr 2021 A new study has found that serious sleep disorders are on the rise in the U.S. military -- conditions that can affect readiness and cause short- and long-term physical and mental health problems for troops and veterans. According to research from the Unive...

CNO: Fatal AAV Accident Revealed Gaps Between Navy, Marine Corps That Need Attention Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday speaks on a panel at the U.S. Naval Institute's 13th annual Defense Forum held on Dec. 5, 2019. (U.S. Navy) 9 Apr 2021 Troubling findings into a devastating military training accident that killed nine troops prompted a meeting between the top Navy and Marine Corps leaders to discuss improvements needed to make future naval operations safer. Eight Marines and one sailor were killed in July when their amphibious assault vehicle filled with water and sank off the coast ...

By   Paul McLeary on April 01, 2021 at 10:15 AM Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger at Twentynine Palms. WASHINGTON: An ambitious new Marine Corps planning document outlines historic changes in how the service plans to equip, organize, and train over the next decade to meet the challenges of Chinese and Russian competition, ushering in changes not seen since the 1920s. The unreleased 180-page document is meant as a first iteration of an effort to create a series of small, agile units tasked with air defense, anti-ship and submarine warfare, and seizing, holding and resupplying small ...

8 [Camp Arifjan, Kuwait] Two Army Reserve officers deployed here with the 310th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) marched 50 miles in a Presidents Day homage to presidents Theodore Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy. Lt. Col. Shane Cater, chief of the administrative law, contract and financial section, said he and Maj. Kyle “Dutch” Dietrich, a trial lawyer in the staff judge advocate section, began early Sunday morning and completed 41 miles before stopping until Monday morning. To complete the trek, the men ran the last nine miles together on the track near their quarters f...