Marines

A North Carolina woman recognized as the oldest living U.S. Marine has died at age 107

Two U.S. Marines have been arrested on a federal grand jury indictment alleging the lance corporals were involved in drug sales, including to a fellow Marine who died of an overdose in May.

The Marine Corps says eight troops are presumed dead after their landing craft sank off the Southern California coast during a training exercise

It wasn’t supposed to happen like this. If anything, Robert Mendoza should’ve died in Iraq, or Afghanistan, or even on a training mission while jumping from an aircraft, but instead, an invisible enemy took his body hostage over Easter weekend and showed no remorse. Mendoza, 43, died Monday inside the Tri-City Medical Center Intensive Care Unit after just a...

Two U.S. Marines were killed in Iraq during a mission to clear out an extensive mountain cave complex where ISIS fighters were hiding and living, three military officials said Monday.

A Camp Pendleton Marine whose disappearance prompted a nationwide search has been court martialed after investigators discovered he purchased a cache of weapons and ammunitions to allegedly hunt human traffickers along the U.S. and Mexico border.

Two dozen Marines have been less-than-honorably discharged as a result of human trafficking and drug-related offenses dating back to July 2019. Twenty-four Marines were arrested during battalion formation at Camp Pendleton on July 25, 2019, accused of illegal activities. In a brief update Saturday, Camp Pendleton confirmed that nine out of the 24 Marines were sent to court-martial. Eight of those…

Agents with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) have arrested a suspect who allegedly recruited Camp Pendleton-based Marines to smuggle undocumented immigrants from the border.

Southern California Marines are reinforcing the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, where dozens of Iraqi Shiite militiamen and their supporters broke into the compound Tuesday in one of the worst attacks on the embassy in recent memory, the U.S. Military confirmed.

Dodgers hosted veterans and their families at Dodger Stadium for the 10th year in a row. Those in attendance were able to participate in batting practice with the team, all in remembrance of those who have served, as seen on California Live Monday, Nov. 11, 2019.

The NFL will salute 15 recipients of the Medal of Honor, the United States’ most prestigious military decoration, when they participate in the coin toss before the Super Bowl on Feb. 4. World War II veteran Hershel Woodrow “Woody” Williams, who received the Medal of Honor during the Battle of Iwo Jima, will flip the coin, surrounded by the others being honored.

Reports of sexual assaults increased at two of the three military academies last year and an anonymous survey suggests sexual misconduct rose across the board at the schools, The Associated Press has learned. The new data underscore the challenge in stemming bad behavior by young people at the military college campuses, despite a slew of programs designed to prevent assaults,...

Two Marine Corps veterans playing “Pokemon Go” in Fullerton helped nab a man wanted for attempted murder and other crimes, police said.

A once-lost Purple Heart and other medals belonging to a U.S. Marine killed during World War II were presented Friday to his surviving relatives in Lake Elsinore.

A salvage barge moved off the Florida Panhandle coast to lift the wreckage of a shattered Black Hawk helicopter from the waters, days after seven Marines and four soldiers were killed when the aircraft crashed in dense fog on a nighttime training mission.

The Black Hawk helicopter that crashed in dense fog during a training mission in Florida was carrying seven special operations Marines forces based in North Carolina, along with four National Guard soldiers from Louisiana. All were killed. The salvage of the helicopter could begin Friday afternoon and is expected to take several hours....Click to read more about the servicemen...