Marine Corps Base Hawaii News

Coast Guard and Kaneohe Bay Marine Corps aircraft and ships are searching the waters off the Big Island for a fisherman who was reported missing early today from a 34-foot boat.

The Corps will expand its use of special effects in infantry training next year, with high-tech immersion trainers planned in North Carolina and California, and an expansive urban training facility anticipated in Hawaii, Marine officials said.

Members of the Marine Corps League and the local Marine Reserve unit marked Flag Day on Sunday by performing a flag-retirement ceremony at the Marine Reserve Center near Fresno Yosemite International Airport.

A Hawaii-based U.S. Marine has been fatally injured in a vehicle crash at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center at Twentynine Palms, Calif.

The red, white and blue F-16s of the Air Force's aerial demonstration team, the Thunderbirds, will soar over Hickam Air Force Base this weekend, with more than 120,000 people expected to attend the installation's first open house since 2003.

A 2007 firefight against insurgents in Afghanistan led to the presentation of a medal for bravery to a Kaneohe Marine who was severely wounded in another battle just weeks later.

The U.S. Pacific Command is joining with the state of Hawai'i in pursuing renewable energy goals, with the command looking to meet or exceed the state's clean energy and conservation targets over the next 21 years.

James Argentine gave serious thought to joining the military on his first day of high school.

Marine Corps Base Hawai'i will host the Ku'au Rockin' Surf Competition, which is open to the public, with the holding period from Sept.

Some are calling it a black eye for organizers of the Black Eyed Peas' show. Excitement turned to disappointment for the hundreds caught in a traffic nightmare in Kaneohe.

The kids were crawling around airplanes yesterday; sighting down the barrels of .50-caliber machine guns; gazing up big-eyed at huge armored personnel carriers; furiously cranking wheels that elevated the long, menacing barrels of howitzers; getting their photos snapped sitting in the pilots' seats of helicopters.

Tens of thousands of people are expected to converge at Marine Corps Base Hawaii for food, games and chart-topping music this weekend.

It could be next week before the closed casket of U.S. Marine Sgt. Jay M. Hoskins, 24, of Paris will be returned to Paris, U.S. Marine spokesperson Sgt.

Three Hawaii-based Marines were killed in Afghanistan by a roadside bomb while supporting combat operations in Farah province, the military said Friday.

The average age among the fallen is 25. James D. Argentine, Travis T. Babine, Christian A. Guzman Rivera, Jay M. Hoskins, Anthony C. Garcia, Keiffer P. Wilhelm, Ronald G. Luce Jr., Alejandro Granado, Severin W. Summers III, Jonathan M. Walls, Richard K. Jones, Patrick S. Fitzgibbon, Johnny R. Polk and Alexander J. Miller.

Washington, DC A Long Island native is one of three U.S. Marines killed in in action in Afghanistan this week.

San Antonians are mourning the death of a Marine, but remembering his tireless devotion to faith and military service.

Three Hawaii-based Marines were killed in Afghanistan by a roadside bomb while supporting combat operations in Farah province, the military said Friday.

A Kaneohe Marine and two other Marines on the mainland have been charged in Oklahoma with first-degree rape of a 12-year-old girl.

MARINE CORPS BASE HAWAII, Oahu - Marine Corps Base Hawaii will host roughly 90 Marine Corps Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps from high schools in Hawaii and throughout the country until July 26.