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The Latest on the court-martial of a Marine Corps drill instructor on charges including cruelty and maltreatment of recruits : A military jury has convicted a Marine Corps drill instructor of abusing young recruits and then lying about his actions to investigators. The eight-man jury at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, decided Thursday that Gunnery Sgt.
A military jury begins deliberating whether a Marine Corps drill instructor accused of beating new recruits and targeting Muslim-Americans did his job despite accounts of aggression against young troops. The eight-man jury at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, starts deliberating Thursday whether Gunnery Sgt.
On Nov. 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States with 39.8 percent of the popular vote in a four-person race. Why all this is interesting now, 157 years later, is that current White House Chief of Staff John Kelly came out recently with the comment that the Civil War began because the sides couldn't compromise.
In Jacksonville, the repercussions from the blast were immediately felt by family, friends and colleagues attached to the 1st Battalion, 8th Marines who fell that day in Beirut, Lebanon.
Demonstrators protest at the South Carolina State House calling for the Confederate flag to remain on the State House grounds June 27, 2015 in Columbia, South Carolina. A Marine is set to be booted from the service after he was arrested at a pro-Confederate rally, where he allegedly helped unfurl a banner that displayed a Staff Sgt.
Hundreds gathered at a memorial service Sunday for nine Marine Corps aviators who were killed when their New York-based transport plane crashed in Mississippi last month. A total of 15 Marines and a sailor died July 10 when a C-130 transport plane crashed on July 10. The victims included nine crewmembers who served in a Marine Forces Reserve transport squadron based at Stewart Air National Guard base in Newburgh in New York's Hudson Valley.
Nine Marine Corps aviators who were killed when their New York-based transport plane crashed in Mississippi last month will be honored during a memorial service at their former air base. The victims of the July 10 crash of the C-130 include nine crewmembers who served in a Marine Forces Reserve transport squadron based at Stewart Air National Guard base in Newburgh in New York's Hudson Valley.
Female infantry Marines will be sleeping in makeshift shelters next to their male counterparts when out in the field and no special accommodation will be offered to them, a Marine Corps official said Thursday. Marines in the field stay in everything from a large, single room shelter filled with dozens of cots to sleeping under tarps or nothing at all, said Maj.
The Marine Corps will make history on Thursday when the first three female infantry Marines join their unit at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, officials said. The women are headed to 1st Battalion, 8th Marines, where they will serve in the following infantry military occupational specialties: rifleman, machine gunner and mortar Marine, said 1st Lt.
A Georgia man who served among the first black U.S. Marines during World War II died Tuesday just a few years after Congress honored him and fellow Montford Point Marines for their pioneering role in a segregated military. Angus Hardie Jamerson, known as Jay to his family and friends, died peacefully in his sleep at age 89, said his daughter, Wendy Jamerson.
At a rally yesterday afternoon just outside of Fort Bragg, the world's biggest Army base by population, Barack Obama crisply summarized why Democrats hope this year will be different - and why the Clinton campaign is competing so aggressively for the votes of active duty service members, their families and veterans. "Listen, if you want to keep our military the greatest fighting force that the world has ever known a then we can't have a commander-in-chief who suggests that it's okay to torture people," the president said, referring to Donald Trump.
"If it were a question on having a Marine Corps of 5,000 Whites or 250,000 Negroes, I would rather have the Whites." So said the U.S. Marine Corps' 17th Commandant Gen.
A memorial is being dedicated at Camp Lejeune to honor the Montford Point Marines, the nation's first black Marines. Forty-five Montford Point Marines are scheduled to attend the dedication Friday at Lejeune Memorial Gardens.