US Marine Corps News

Camp Lejeune will celebrate Independence Day with a naturalization ceremony for 25 Marines, sailors and their spouses.

One U.S. soldier and an Afghan were killed when a suicide bomber tried to attack a base in southeast Afghanistan Saturday, officials said, two days after a major operation against the Taliban was launched in the south.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is calling it quits. She says she won't run for re-election and will leave office at the end of the month.

At a former Soviet training base in the town of Rish Khvor, a few miles out of Kabul, American Green Berets are working to mentor and support Afghan Special Force soldiers code-named Commandos.

A jury has found two former Marines guilty of murdering a 22-year-old Long Beach man in a dispute over a laptop.

Four North Carolina National Guard soldiers were killed in Baghdad on the last day of regular combat operations for U.S. forces in Iraqi cities, the military said Thursday.

A U.S. drone aircraft fired missiles on Friday into Pakistan's South Waziristan region, killing 10 militants, officials said, ahead of an expected Pakistani military offensive in the area.

Patrick Best, after serving with the Army for two tours in Iraq, brought home an American flag that once flew over his base near Mosul, but he wasn't sure what to do with it - until he heard about Ed Jordan.

A "person of interest" is being held in connection with the death of a 29-year-old sailor.

Jul 02 - About 4,000 U.S. Marines begin an offensive against the Taliban in southern Afghanistan.

Insurgents have captured an American soldier in eastern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said Thursday.

The lawsuit will allege that regulations in place as early as 1963 prohibiting the contamination were not followed.

Ed McMahon was remembered as a man with a passion for life, his family and the Marine Corps at a tribute Wednesday to the late sidekick of "The Tonight Show" flavored by military pomp, prayer and music.

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. - A court-martialed Marine who gave a newspaper interview about his role in the theft of government files has been acquitted of disobeying orders.

Two hundred Royal Marines and other commandos have marched through Plymouth to thank the city for its support during their deployment to Afghanistan.

NATO said an explosion Wednesday in southern Afghanistan killed two of its troops and wounded six others.

A MAJOR parade of military personnel will take place in Exeter in front of His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh - Captain General of the Royal Marines.

Ed Jordan holds the charred remnants of the U.S. and Marine Corps flags that flew outside his Far North Dallas home until vandals burned them Monday.

WASHINGTON - Oshkosh Corp. won a $1.06 billion Army contract to build new, off-road terrain vehicles to outfit ground forces in Afghanistan, the Pentagon said late Tuesday.

The Marine Corps has denied clemency to a Camp Lejeune Marine suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, despite pleas from his Navy doctor to release him because confinement aggravates his mental condition.