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Proposed ship retirements that would take nine littoral combat ships offline also would end the career of two unconventional seabasing vessels that have less than a decade in service.

The Marine Corps is shuttering its combat gear storage program in the Middle East.

The Corps is searching for software to help officials find and shut down social media profiles impersonating generals.

Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr. for appointment to the rank of lieutenant general and for assignment as director, strategic plans and policy, J-5, Joint Staff; and senior member, U.S.

A lawmaker is denouncing Navy Secretary Ray Mabus for questioning the integrity of the Corps' research on women in combat.

Navy Secretary Ray Mabus erased any doubt of his plans to open combat jobs to women Monday; he won't ask for exceptions.

An enlisted leader said the SecNav was "off base" to suggest higher caliber female Marines should have been selected for the integrated task force.

Mabus spoke to David Green at NPR a day after Marine officials revealed findings from a nine-month infantry experiment that assessed the performance of male and female Marine volunteers at physically demanding ground combat tasks.

All-male ground combat teams outperformed their mixed-gender counterparts in nearly every capacity during a recent infantry integration test.

The 20-year-old Marine had spent months in co-ed training at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina before moving west to Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center 29 Palms, California for a series of combat assessments in grimy field conditions -- the closest any

The Marines' special operations command will dedicate its multi-purpose dog kennel to a Marine dog handler who was killed in action, MARSOC officials announced today.

The next commandant spent time meeting the leaders of some of the world’s other marine corps at a conference in Colombia this week.

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