HONOLULU (AP) — The $42 million high-tech immersion trainer at Marine Corps Training Area Bellows is getting a makeover to go along with a new mission. Gone are the Afghanistan influences. So too are the 50 to 85 Afghan role players who once populated the infantry immersion trainer on Oahu — the military’s version of [...]
Allen investigated for emails to Petraeus friend PERTH, Australia — In a new twist to the Gen. David Petraeus sex scandal, the Pentagon said Tuesday that the top American commander in Afghanistan, Gen. John Allen, is under investigation for alleged “inappropriate communications” with a woman who is said to have received threatening emails from Paula [...]
To meet the wish-list requirements of the military’s top regional combatant commanders, the Marine Corps would need four times the amount of amphibious forces currently available, according to the commandant, Gen. James Amos. The assertion by the top Marine Corps general and senior member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff comes just two days after [...]
The floor is down and the bleachers are up with stadium lights all around. The USS Bataan has been transformed in to a college basketball arena and will host the Navy-Marine Corps Classic this evening between the Georgetown Hoyas and Florida Gators. “It’s been a pretty massive undertaking because your constructing a major college basketball [...]
Click photo to enlarge The Marine Corps Marathon–the fourth-largest marathon in the U.S. with 43,600 participants running 26.2 miles–encourages its runners to raise money for the cause of their choice. For Sunnyvale resident and Santa Clara County nurse S. Jane Schrick, that cause is to fight Parkinson’s disease. “If people live with Parkinson’s 24/7, I [...]
Agent recounts details in Afghan massacre case JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. — A U.S. agent who investigated the massacre of 16 civilians in southern Afghanistan last March recounted the volatile reaction from local villagers Wednesday and said it was three weeks before American forces could visit the crime scenes less than a mile from a [...]
“The long run was big, it kind of got some momentum going, but it wasn’t done by myself,” Reynolds said. “I had some help on the perimeter and it all worked out.” After a 31-yard touchdown pass from Reynolds to Turner that the receiver called “the most perfect pass I’ve ever seen” and a 20-yard [...]
Marines Assist New York’s Storm-stricken Staten Islanders By Marine Corps Capt. Lucas Burke26th Marine Expeditionary Unit STATEN ISLAND, N.Y., Nov. 4, 2012 ? Marines assigned to the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit today are helping to clear debris in this storm-stricken community as part of Hurricane Sandy relief efforts. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Matthew Reynoso, an [...]
Folks dined at several restaurants to raise money for the Albany Symphony Association. Article source: http://www.walb.com/story/19995721/marine-corps-birthday-ball-invite-children
Weston stands alone in the annals of modern American diplomacy. He spent more time in Iraq and Afghanistan—seven consecutive years—than any other State Department officer. What he did there couldn’t have been more different from traditional cocktail-party diplomacy: he was a political adviser to combat units on the battlefield, where he forged uncommonly honest and [...]