Apparently the General Counsel of the Commandant of the Marine Corps doesn't think the crusades were religious!
D. Robert Worley | Posted 05.28.2012
Memorial Day takes me back and helps put my personal and professional priorities where they properly belong. The name Michael Eugene Hoppers invariably appears front and center in my thoughts, but he represents many.
Andrew Lubin | Posted 05.27.2012
That's the spirit of Memorial Day; it's the remembrance of those who didn't come back alive, and a celebration of the esprit-de-corps and how they lived their lives.God bless the United States and those who stand watch over us tonight.
AP | Posted 05.25.2012
DERBY, Kan. -- A young Marine returning to civilian life in Kansas died this week after falling from the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, where he had s...
The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 05.23.2012
When Jordan Griffith, a 13-year-old student at South Jones Elementary School in Elliseville, Miss., wore to school a shirt in support of his brother, ...
The Huffington Post | Samreen Hooda | Posted 05.17.2012
Fifteen American Muslims, including four military veterans, are suing the federal government after discovering they were placed on the "no-fly" list. ...
Chris Marvin | Posted 05.10.2012
Got Your 6 will challenge all Americans to answer calls to action -- specific tasks that allow civilians to share in the sacrifice and show their appreciation in a meaningful way.
Posted 05.02.2012
Throughout his 12 years, Cody Green battled leukemia like the bravest of warriors. For that, he was named an honorary Marine just before he died. ...
Chuck Tatum | Posted 05.01.2012
Every young boy in 1942 America knew Sergeant John Basilone fired from the hip. Cradling his water cooled .30 caliber machine gun in his arms, on the night of October 24, 1942 he mowed down dozens and dozens of onrushing enemy soldiers on the island of Guadalcanal.
AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 04.27.2012
WASHINGTON — About 9,000 U.S. Marines stationed on the Japanese island of Okinawa will be moved to the U.S. territory of Guam and other location...
Posted 04.26.2012
Gary Stein, the Marine set to be discharged over controversy concerning his anti-Obama, Tea Party-centered Facebook group, will launch his own radio p...
AP | ELLIOT SPAGAT | Posted 04.25.2012
SAN DIEGO — A sergeant will be discharged for criticizing President Barack Obama on Facebook in a case that called into question the Pentagon's ...
The New York Times | Posted 04.25.2012
The Marine Corps, the most male of the armed services, is taking its first steps toward integrating women into war-fighting units, starting with its i...
AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 04.24.2012
BRASILIA, Brazil — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Tuesday three Marines on a U.S. Embassy security team and one embassy staff member were p...
Posted 04.24.2012
Though hundreds of people came out to greet Corporal Garrett Carnes -- who lost both legs while serving in Afghanistan -- one heartfelt embrace from a...
The Washington Post | Posted 04.23.2012
One Marine allegedly stabbed another Marine to death early Saturday on Capitol Hill’s Barracks Row, near the Marine Barracks and the residence of th...
Posted 04.19.2012
The "Ghost Hunters" (Wed., 9 p.m. ET on Syfy) headed to Annapolis, Maryland this week to investigate a spectral presence at the U.S. Naval Institute. ...
Chris Rodda | Posted 04.18.2012
Under new leadership, Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 122 is going back to being the "Crusaders," complete with an insignia of a crusader shield with a big red cross on it and a crusader knight as its mascot.
Reuters | Posted 04.18.2012
* Senator questions whether security could have been compromised * Secret Service agents, Marines under investigation *...
Aubree Eliza Weaver | Posted 04.11.2012
How are First Amendment rights different for people serving our country? Now, hear me out when I say that I'm rather torn on this issue.
AP | By JULIE WATSON | Posted 04.08.2012
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. -- Marine Corps officials are seeking additional guidance from the Pentagon regarding service members' use of social media amid...
Camp Pendleton Patch | Daniel Woolfolk | Posted 04.05.2012
A judge has denied a request to halt or postpone a military separation hearings for Sgt. Gary Stein - a Temecula Marine who maintains a Facebook page ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Max J. Rosenthal | Posted 03.26.2012
WASHINGTON -- Tuesday marked six months since the repeal of the military's "Don't ask, don't tell" policy. On the same day, the Marine Corps Universit...
AP | BRUCE SCHREINER | Posted 05.19.2012
WEST LIBERTY, Ky. (AP) A Kentucky Marine who was awarded the Medal of Honor last year is helping clean up a small Kentucky community devastated b...
Brian Palmer | Posted 05.19.2012
I count wounded marines among my friends. Perhaps this is why the scene hit me so hard. But my personal history aside, this sequence is by far the movie's most nuanced and moving. It works unlike anything else in AOV aside from the bang-bang.
Chris Rodda | Posted 05.29.2012