Monday marks a major milestone in American military history as the U.S. Marine Corps celebrates its 250th birthday and events honoring Marines past and present are planned across several states. The ...
With the Marine Corps celebrating its 250th birthday Nov. 10 and Veterans Day on Nov. 11, we look at the birth of the corps. Continental Marines land at New Providence during the Battle of Nassau. US ...
TRIANGLE, Va. — No matter where U.S. Marines are in the world, they pause to honor the birth of the Marine Corps. A day before Veterans Day, U.S. Marines across the country and overseas are ...
The Marine Corps is older than America. On November 10, 1775, the Second Continental Congress created the Marine Corps by directing that “two battalions of Marines be established to seize and defend ...
An old landmark from the beginning of Camp Pendleton’s history in the early 1940s will serve as the venue for a base-wide holiday party Dec. 20. Many people pass by the building, but few know its ...
This story has been corrected. The Marine Corps’ oldest flying squadron recently took another step toward the service’s retirement of a venerable vertical takeoff aircraft to make way for its ...
In the summer of 2021, two years before the Corps axed the current iteration of the job, members of the Marine scout sniper community saw a growing need to preserve and catalog their heritage, one ...
A retired Onslow County Marine is being recognized on a national stage for her work preserving the history of women in the Corps.Retired Chief Warrant Officer 5 ...
Lt. Col. Joseph L. Gill II, right, commanding officer, and 1st Sgt. Mark Albert, case the colors of 1st Battalion, 12th Marines, during the unit’s deactivation ceremony on Marine Corps Base Hawaii, ...