Category: US Marine Corps

Obama reveals his toughest decision

In his weekly address, U.S. President Barack Obama discusses the points he will touch on in his upcoming farewell address to the nation. PRESIDENT Barack Obama said his hardest decision during his two terms in office was a massive troop surge in Afghanistan.

Obama reveals his toughest decision

In his weekly address, U.S. President Barack Obama discusses the points he will touch on in his upcoming farewell address to the nation. PRESIDENT Barack Obama said his hardest decision during his two terms in office was a massive troop surge in Afghanistan.

Obama reveals his toughest decision

In his weekly address, U.S. President Barack Obama discusses the points he will touch on in his upcoming farewell address to the nation. PRESIDENT Barack Obama said his hardest decision during his two terms in office was a massive troop surge in Afghanistan.

Today in History: Jan. 5, 2017

On Jan. 5, 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed assistance to countries to help them resist Communist aggression in what became known as the Eisenhower Doctrine. In 1905, the National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals was incorporated in New York State.

Today in History: Jan. 5, 2017

On Jan. 5, 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed assistance to countries to help them resist Communist aggression in what became known as the Eisenhower Doctrine. In 1905, the National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals was incorporated in New York State.

Khalid Bahurr, commissioner for Burke Lakefront Airport

After the U.S. Coast Guard called of its search for a plane that went missing the city of Cleveland is now taking over a recovery mission in Lake Erie with the help of private and U.S. Marine Corps divers. A timetable is unknown, according to Khalid Bahurr who is the commissioner for Burke Lakefront Airport.

John Kerry’s practiced betrayal of friends

In 1971, when he was a young lieutenant just back from Vietnam, where he was a decorated skipper of a Swift Boat patrolling the Mekong River, he appeared before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee to pay his “respects” to the American soldiers, sailors and Marines he fought a war with. Representing all those veterans, he told the senators, he wanted to talk about war crimes he said “were committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command.”

Japanese prime minister offers condolences at Pearl Harbor

Seventy-five years after Imperial Japanese warplanes destroyed the Pacific fleet here and drew the United States into World War II, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan on Tuesday stood next to President Barack Obama at the site of the attack and offered repentance but did not apologize. “I offer my sincere and everlasting condolences to the souls of those who lost their lives here, as well as to the spirits of all the brave men and women whose lives were taken by a war that commenced in this very place, and also to the souls of the countless innocent people who became victims of the war,” Abe said.

The Latest: US, Japan leaders meet before Pearl Harbor visit

CAMP H.M. SMITH, Hawaii – The Latest on President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii : Ahead of a visit to the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and President Barack Obama are holding a formal meeting at Camp H.M. Smith, a Marine Corps installation and headquarters of the U.S. Pacific Command. Obama and Abe sat next to each other in front of Japanese and American flags, with white flowers in between them and translators at their sides.

BC-AP News Digest 6 pm

NEW YEAR’S HOPES – Emotionally wrenching politics, foreign conflicts and shootings at home took a toll on Americans in 2016, but they are entering 2017 on an optimistic note, according to a new poll that found that a majority believes things are going to get better for the country next year. By Emily Swanson and Verena Dobnik.

BC-AP News Digest 6 pm

NEW YEAR’S HOPES – Emotionally wrenching politics, foreign conflicts and shootings at home took a toll on Americans in 2016, but they are entering 2017 on an optimistic note, according to a new poll that found that a majority believes things are going to get better for the country next year. By Emily Swanson and Verena Dobnik.

How Marine training helped a talking dinosaur come to market – CNET

CEO of smart-toy startup credits time in the Marine Corps Reserves for skills he took to the tech and toy industries. “They are really good at making decisions quickly, and without a lot of information available, which in the startup world is extremely helpful,” said Coolidge, who has successfully applied his US Marine Corps Reserve training to the market battle in the AI toy arena.

The big issue: End of an era

One-star US Marine Gen Russell Sanborn and Lt Gen Thongchai Sarasuk, director of Joint Operations, shake hands after the Initial Planning Conference last August for the Cobra Gold 2017 war games. Planning for the third Cobra Gold war games since the 2014 coup d’etat is pretty much complete, and it is going to show better than any other public event the diminishing passion of the long US-Thailand affair.

The Latest: Obama finishes playing golf with 3 friends

President Barack Obama is seen through the window as his motorcade vehicle as he leaves Marine Corps Base Hawaii, in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016, after his morning workout. A motorcade with President Barack Obama aboard is seen as it leaves Marine Corps Base Hawaii, in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016, after the president’s morning workout.

Biden, mourners pay tribute to John Glenn, American hero

The nation’s vice president and a retired Marine Corps general were among the dignitaries, family members and other mourners who choked up Saturday during a memorial tribute to the late space hero John Glenn. Roughly 2,500 people gathered at Mershon Auditorium on the Ohio State University campus for “a celebration of life” for the former fighter pilot, history-making astronaut and longtime Democratic U.S. senator from small-town Ohio.

Biden, other mourners choke up in tribute to John Glenn

The nation’s vice president and a retired Marine Corps general were among the dignitaries, family members and other mourners who choked up Saturday during a memorial tribute to the late space hero John Glenn. for the former fighter pilot, history-making astronaut and longtime Democratic U.S. senator from small-town Ohio.