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US Marine Corps/Lance Cpl. Michaela R. Gregory The 5.56mm M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle has remained a favorite rifle of the Marine Corps for the better part of this decade. Based on the Heckler & Koch HK416 assault rifle and adopted in 2011 to replace the M249 Squad Automatic Weapon, it’s widely considered more versatile and […]
Ben Schreckinger had just experienced the dinner most journalists would die for — especially in light of recent events — and still he was seriously considering law school. The intrepid young reporter had spent the summer of 2013 as a fellow of the GroundTruth Project, a program to provide young journalists with foreign experience. In […]
Joe Raedle/Getty Images During a social dinner at President Donald Trump’s clubhouse restaurant in Bedminster, New Jersey, late last week, White House chief of staff John Kelly reportedly joked that his storied career in the US Marine Corps paled in comparison to the politics at the White House. “The best job I ever had was as […]
Captain Marvel isn’t due out in theaters until 2019, but with filming expected to begin early next year, Marvel Studios needs to lock down a screenplay. And because this is a major superhero film being made by a major studio, a new writer has been brought on to help push Carol Danvers’ big screen debut across […]
“The people closest to the problem are also the people closest to the solution,” Capt. Chris Wood, co-lead for Additive Manufacturing with the US Marine Corps, told Engadget. In 2016, the USMC put that adage to the test as it launched the Logistics Innovation Challenge, a program “to solicit ideas from Marines, sailors and civilians […]
For the second time in just over a year, the Marine Corps ordered all of the branch’s aircraft to suspend flight operations for a 24-hour “operational reset” following two deadly aviation accidents in recent weeks. In a press release issued Friday, General Robert Neller, Commandant of the US Marine Corps, directed all US Marine Corps […]
Enlarge (credit: Touchstone Pictures) Don’t get your hopes up too high about becoming a space marine quite yet. But if the House of Representatives’ version of the 2018 defense budget goes through, you may soon be able to enlist in the US Space Corps. Back in January of 2001, days before the inauguration of President […]
US Marine Corps/Sgt. Jennifer Jones WASHINGTON (AP) — A Marine in full combat gear moves through dark, frigid water, gripping an M-16 rifle, before plunging under barbed wire and through a submerged drainage pipe. It is only when the fighter shouts an order over the sound of explosions does the historical nature of the TV […]
U.S. Marine Corps photos by Gunnery Sgt. Rome M. Lazarus/ Released The Marines are considering arming more of its infantry with a lightweight, highly reliable automatic rifle, but there’s one catch: It costs about three times more than the rifle that is currently standard issue. The standard-issue M4 carbine could be replaced by the M27 […]
Following the revelation that hundreds of Marines were under investigation for sharing naked pictures of female service members, Marine Commandant General Robert Neller issued a new guidance for social media usage earlier this week. The All Marine (ALMAR) message went out on March 14th, and serves as a guidance for how Marines should be representing […]
