16 November 2017 MCSFCO Holds 242nd Birthday Ball Honoring the Fighting Spirit of the Marines Marine Corps Security Force Company held its annual Marine Corps Birthday Ball, Nov. 11, in the Windjammer Ballroom...
13 November 2017 Naval Hospital Jacksonville Sailors Participate in Marine Corps Marathon Forward Five Naval Hospital Jacksonville Sailors, forward deployed to Navy Expeditionary Medical Unit 2 in Iraq, participated in the 11th annual Marine Corps Marathon Forward in Iraq on Oct. 22...
13 November 2017 Naval War College Students Earn Strategic Planning Excellence Award Rear Adm. Jeffrey A. Harley, president U.S. Naval War College (NWC) presented the James G. Stavridis Award for Excellence in Theater Strategic Planning to the college's top seminar group in its intermediate-level Theater Security Decision Making (TSDM) course, Nov. 9...
13 November 2017 VMFA-323 Celebrates Marine Corps Birthday on Nimitz Marines assigned to the "Death Rattlers" of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 323 held a cake-cutting ceremony in honor of the 242nd U.S. Marine Corps Birthday Nov. 11, while embarked and deployed aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68)...
30 October 2017 Riding the Wake The year was 1941, and word of the Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor was still making its way across the nation. Across the international dateline, another attack by the Japanese was unfolding on the atoll commonly referred to as Wake Island...
23 October 2017 Anchorage Conducts HIMARS Shoot During Dawn Blitz 2017 The High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) was fired from the flight deck of the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS Anchorage (LPD 23) during Dawn Blitz 2017 Oct. 22...
19 October 2017 Navy to Christen Expeditionary Sea Base Hershel "Woody" Williams (ESB 4) The Navy will christen the Expeditionary Sea Base future USNS Hershel "Woody" Williams (ESB 4) during a 10 a.m. PDT ceremony Saturday, Oct. 21, at General Dynamics NASSCO, San Diego...
21 September 2017 Florida National Guardsman embarks Iwo Jima to support Hurricane Irma relief efforts When Florida National Guardsman Maj. Sam Sargeant checked aboard USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) it took him a little bit to adjust to the rolling decks and knee knockers...
12 September 2017 After The Landing Fine clouds of dust form so thick it distorts visibility, as the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) arrives ashore bringing with them everything they need for combat operations and sustainment for the next two weeks during Exercise Alligator Dagger 17, Sept. 11...
22 August 2017 Marines Using Additive Manufacturing To Bring Innovation To The Battlefield The Marine Corps Innovation Challenge was established to bring new ideas to the warfighter from the warfighter...