Both Marine Recon and Marine Raiders belong to the elite side of the Marine Corps, but they have distinct missions and training. Recon units focus on gathering critical battlefield intelligence deep ...

Sgt. Maj. Carlos Ruiz has been vocal about a multibillion-dollar barracks effort meant to fix disintegrating housing, as well ...

MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — II Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF) certified the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) for deployment with the designation Special Operations Capable (SOC ...

The original “Marine Raiders” were Calrson’s Raiders of WWII, a special operations unit who, under the command of their namesake, Lt. Colonel Evans Fordyce Carlson, gained fame for their ...

With silent precision and unwavering discipline, the hand-selected section of 12 Marines that make up the Marine Corps Body ...

Remember, the last large scale amphibious operation took place over seventy years ago at Inchon, Korea in 1950. Since then, the typical marine mission has been a quick assault using a small (usually ...

Besides the Army and Marine Corps units, elements of 20 other units including active-duty and National Guard troops were awarded the Presidential Unit Citation, according to an update from the ...

The Marine Corps’ expeditionary unit capable of special operations has departed early from a scheduled exercise with Kuwait “as a result of a emerging events,” days after war broke out in ...

A Marine Corps regiment in Okinawa will become a smaller but more mobile Marine Littoral Regiment to better accomplish its mission to defend the U.S. and its allies in the region.

A U.S. Marine Corps AH-1Z Viper, assigned to Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron (HMLA) 269, taxis for the squadron’s final flight at Marine Corps Air Station New River, N.C., Nov. 7, 2022.

Between 2018 and 2022, "most Army and Marine Corps Special Operations Forces (SOF) units did not meet foreign language proficiency goals," the report said. In fact, "less than half of SOF ...