Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune News

In November 1950 he fought with the U.S. Marines to escape entrapment by an overwhelming force of Chinese soldiers near North Korea's Chosin Reservoir.

Gen. James F. Amos, the 35th Commandant of the Marine Corps, speaks to Marine officers and staff noncommisioned officers during the Heritage Brief at the Pentagon in Washington on May 30, 2012.

Mary Blakely clears dirt and grass from a 60-year-old temporary tin marker in the 'Babyland' section of Onslow Memorial Park in Jacksonville, N.C., on Feb.

Jesse Strowbridge, son of James and Helen Strowbridge, Brainerd, was recently promoted to E8 Senior Master Sergeant.

ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2013 AND THEREAFTER - Environmental engineer Bob Lowder stands outside a "pump and treat" facility on the Marine base at Camp Lejeune, N.C. on Wednesday, Feb.

As she flipped through the cemetery register, Mary Blakely's eyes filled with tears.

A simple test could have alerted officials that the drinking water at Camp Lejeune was contaminated, long before authorities determined that as many as a million Marines and their families were exposed to a witch's brew of cancer-causing chemicals.

He was born March 14, 1921, in Silver Creek, N.Y., the son of the late Albert and Anna Kohler Jacobs.

When Cpl. David Sonka was training his military dogs, he was fulfilling a lifelong dream, mourners recalled as they celebrated the fallen Marine's life at a memorial service Thursday morning .

South Lebanon Township resident Robert Knutson, left, and fellow former Marine Millard Bam Westfall hold the customized AR-10 rifle Knutson was given for helping to save Westfall s life in Afghanistan.

LCpl. Kenneth Austin threatened the Marine at about 2:30 a.m. Thursday, according to Sgt.

The Marine Corps is looking to send a forward-deployed crisis-response force - like the one it just stood up for Africa - to the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility.

Cpl. David M. Sonka, 23, died earlier this month in the Farah Province in Afghanistan.

A Marine officer who recently underwent an Article 32 hearing aboard Camp Lejeune for alleged misconduct in Afghanistan has been referred for special court martial by the court martial convening authority.

A Marine officer in charge of snipers shown in a 2011 video urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters Afghanistan will be court-martialed. The U.S. Marine Corps announced Monday that Capt.

If you've ever ridden a horse, your first time in the saddle probably wasn't on a big, hot-blooded... Two Gold Star Mothers who lost sons in separate IED attacks are coming out in support of the scout snipers who urinated on the corpses of insurgents whom they believed were responsible for killing their friends.

U.S. Marine Capt. Murphy hugs his daughter Solenne upon returning home from a deployment to the cheers of supporters Tuesday.

A decade ago, Robinson Moore didn't have a future, or at least not one he cared about.

U.S. Marine Cpl. David Sonka, of Parker, who was killed by an Afghanistan Army soldier he was training, will be remembered Sunday night outside Chaparral High School.

Gen. Jim Amos, commandant of the Marine Corps, announced new Corps-wide command climate surveys in a May 9 'White Letter.' The commandant of the Marine Corps must 'keep the moral and ethical health of our institution front and center' and therefore will confront poor command climates with new climate surveys, he said in a letter to all Marines ... (more)