Marine Corps Base Quantico News

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A Georgia couple who showed up at the White House a day early for a tour somehow wound up at an invitation-only breakfast with President and Mrs.

First lady Michelle Obama visited Marine Corps Base Quantico's Toys for Tots operation yesterday and urged the public to donate gifts for older kids.

Delivering a red Christmas sack bulging with toys, first lady Michelle Obama appealed Wednesday for donations for older children for the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve's annual Toys for Tots program for needy children.

Marine Corps Combat Development Command announced the official launch of the Experimental Forward Operating Base .

Wilma Vaughn, community relations officer for Marine Corps Base Quantico, says some of the Marines who help out with the Toys for Tots campaign actually became Marines because of the memory of receiving those gifts as children.

Dick Camp won't ever forget Jan. 21, 1968. It began as another day in combat for the commander of a Marine rifle company in Khe Sanh, Vietnam.

The Naval Criminal Investigative Service is investigating a shooting that took place Sunday at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Va., officials said.

Timothy Donovan sits in his wheelchair on the sidelines of the playground here, wishing he could swing on the swings or slide down the slides with his friends.

The U.S. Marine Corps has selected the infantry automatic rifle made by Heckler & Koch as the weapon that will likely replace many M249 Squad Automatic Weapons in the rifle squad, and could begin fielding the IAR by next summer, a senior service official said.

Marines looking to wear some bling this year have a new option. In conjunction with the Marine Corps Birthday on Tuesday, an Atlanta-based jeweler is selling Marine Corps-themed Faberge-style eggs, with all proceeds benefiting Marine charities.

About 9,600 current and former Marines are eligible for at least $500 through a new program that pays troops for the months they were kept on active duty by the Defense Department's stop-loss policy, Marine officials said.

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.

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Marine combat developers are eyeing a new sniper rifle that would almost double the range of the Corps' existing model, but the service's weapons experts don't want it and believe fielding something more powerful could exacerbate existing problems with marksmanship.

Words that Marines live by. Those words took on an even deeper meaning Thursday as the Semper Fidelis Chapel at the National Museum of the Marine Corps was dedicated during a ceremony that drew a crowd of 200 invited guests to the facility in Triangle.

The Marine Corps' next-generation 10-wheel heavy hauler has arrived in Afghanistan, and nearly 100 could be delivered there by the end of the year.

A Marine sergeant charged with faking battle injuries to get freebies intended for wounded warriors will plead guilty, a Marine Corps spokeswoman said Monday.

A Quantico-based Marine who is alleged to have faked war wounds for personal gain is expected to enter a guilty plea Wednesday morning during court martial proceedings at the base.

Whereas, according to Alfred Nobel's will, the Peace Prize should be awarded "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses." . And whereas President Barack Hussein Obama has certainly not actually ...