US Marine Corps News

Purple wildflowers sprout in abundance around the bright-yellow pipe, one of several jutting from the sandy soil in this unassuming patch of grass and mud.

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.

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

The Albany Police Department said goodbye to patrol office Marvin Jennings in February as he left for training camp, and now the officer is set to deploy to Afghanistan in June.

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

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.

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 .

Brad L. Clarkson, 56, of 428 Winsor St., died Monday, May 13, 2013, at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Hamot in Erie.

Lance Cpl. Brandon King, a driver with Delta Company, 1st Tank Battalion, performs maintenance on an M1 Abrams Tank at Forward Operating Base Shir Ghazay, Afghanistan, April 5, 2013.

Retired Col. Allan Cruz, USMC, and Chief Johnny Johnson, World War II Navy veteran, will be the guest speakers at the 72nd annual Memorial Day observance, "Never to be Forgotten," on May 27 at the Golden Gate National Cemetery in San Bruno.

Retired military working dog Siebert L515 sits for a portrait in his family's backyard in Hanover on Thursday, May 9. (Shelby Mack Siebert, a 10-year-old lab, loves to play fetch and chew on his red Kong toy.

The Marine Corps Association & Foundation provides the "Chesty" Puller Recruit Company Honor Graduate Award for each graduating company at the Parris Island and San Diego Recruit Depots.

Ronnie Lee DeMaggio lost a fierce and courageous battle against lung cancer on May 8, 2013.

On April 24, 2005, US Marine Corps lance corporal Adam McCann was on patrol with his fire team, as he had been on many other occasions.

Members of American Legion Riders Post 852 of Temecula and the Patriot Guard Riders escort the cremains of fellow member George Campos into the Calvary Chapel in Murrieta.

A Camp Lejeune Marine belonging to 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion has been arrested after he allegedly threatened the life of another Marine.

A former U.S. Marine and World War II veteran was honored Saturday during a medal presentation almost 70 years in the making.

Byron N. Williams, a retired officer in the U.S. Marine Corps with more than 16 years experience as a principal, district administrator and assistant superintendent in Philadelphia and other urban school districts, will be the principal of the district's new Bridgeport Military Academy High School.

North Lamar High School seniors Cody Edwards and Kara Erickson were honored with the United State Marine Corps Scholastic Excellence Award given by Sergeant Jeremy Owens .

A former Sailor assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 5 received the Navy and Marine Corps Medal during an award ceremony held at the Colorado State Capitol building in Denver, Colorado, April 17.