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AP: USAF Gen. Breedlove Pick for Top NATO Job

Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Phil Breedlove gives a presentation on Air Force future operating concepts in 2011. US Air Force Photo U.S. Air Force Gen. Philip Breedlove is likely choice to become...

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Cuts Mean Veterans Wait Longer for Arlington Burial

ima Black, widow of the first Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy , Delbert Black, visits the grave of her late husband on Sept. 27. US Navy Photo The ten percent sequestration cuts across the...

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Weather Delays Kearsarge ARG Deployment Until Monday

USNS Robert E. Peary (T-AKE 5), center, conducts a dual replenishment-at-sea with the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) and the amphibious landing dock ship USS Carter Hall (LSD 50) on Feb...

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Navy and NASA: From Mercury to Apollo

In 2014, a Navy ship will recover a NASA capsule from the first time since 1975. The mission to recover the Orion will reestablish a relationship going back to the beginning of manned space flight. The...

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No Furloughs at Arlington National Cemetery

A member of the U.S. Navy Ceremonial Guard plays “Taps” during a funeral at Arlington National Cemetery on March, 8. US Navy Photo Staff at Arlington National Cemetery will avoid furloughs this fiscal...

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Seven Marines Dead in Nevada Training Accident

Hawthorne Army Depot. US Army Photo Seven Marines from the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force were killed in a training accident at Hawthorne Army Depot, Nev. on Monday. The accident’s cause is currently...

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Mortar Malfunction Blamed for 7 Marine Deaths

Brig. Gen. James W. Lukeman, 2nd Marine Division commanding general, at a Tuesday press conference at Camp Lejeune. A 60mm mortar malfunction is being blamed for the Monday death of seven North...

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Seven Marines Killed in Nevada Identified

The Marine Corps has released the names of the seven Marines who died Monday following a mortar malfunction at Hawthorne Army Depot, Nev. Pfc. Joshua M. Martino, 19, of Clearfield, Pa. Pfc. Joshua M....

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Greenert: Forward Deployed Ships, F-35s USN’s Future

Adm. Jonathan Greenert addressing a crowd in March. US Navy Photo In a time of fiscal “reduced visibility” the Navy’s strategy remains “to be where it matters,” Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan...

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USMC Commandant: ‘You Can’t Surge Trust’

Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. James Amos addresses the Sailors and Marines assigned to the newly commissioned amphibious transport dock ship USS Arlington (LPD-24) on April, 6 2013. US Navy Photo...

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Documents: Tuesday Department of the Navy HASC Statements

The following are the prepared testimonies from Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert and USMC Commandant Gen. James Amos for the April, 16 2013 House Armed...

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All Survive Marine Helo ‘Hard Landing’ in Korea

USMC CH-53E following a Tuesday crash 55 miles from Seoul. Reuters Photo U.S. Forces Korea is investigating a so-called “hard landing” of a Tuesday U.S. Marine Corps CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter,...

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Three Marines Relieved Over March Mortar Accident

Lt. Col. Andrew J. McNulty speaks to 1st Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment service members during a memorial ceremony March 21, 2013. McNulty was relieved of command on Wednesday. US Marine Corps Photo...

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‘Human Error’ Blamed in Mortar Accident that Killed Seven Marines

Marines train with M224A1 60mm mortar system in 2012. The U.S. Marine Corps is blaming a fatal March mortar accident that killed seven Marines on ‘human error,’ service officials told USNI...

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Background on New Marine Amphibious Vehicle

From the Congressional Research Service June, 28 2013 report on development of the Marine Corps next-generation amphibious assault vehicle: A Feb. 01, 2007 test of the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle...

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Opinion: Marines Face Painful Transition in Age of Austerity

Three U.S. Marine Corps CH-46E Sea Knight helicopters, assigned to Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron One Six Six (HMM-163) provides support during the Air show’s Marine Air-ground Task Force (MAGTF)...

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Document: Command and Control for Joint Maritime Operations

The following is from the Department of Defense’s Aug. 7, 2013 Command and Control forJoint Maritime Operations: Maritime power, in the broadest sense, is military, diplomatic, and economic power or...

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Commandant: USMC Should Shrink to 174,000 Under Sequestration

Corps Gen. James F. Amos addresses an audience of Marines on July 18, 2013. USMC Photo U.S. Marine Corps Commandant James Amos made a call Monday to shrink the Marine Corps from a decade high of...

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New Canopy Manufacturing Technique Could Cut Total JSF Costs by $125 million

The canopy of a US Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter on Aug. 24, 2013. US Navy Photo The U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Research (ONR) has developed a new manufacturing process to build...

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Beirut Bombing at 30: ‘We Came in Peace’

A view of the explosion at the US Marine Barracks in Beirut, Lebanon on Oct. 23, 2013. The following is an October 2008 article from Proceedings written by the then-commanding officer of 24th Marine...

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