Shawn Snow
Early Bird Editor
Shawn Snow is the senior reporter for Marine Corps Times and a Marine Corps veteran.
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Special operators will be countering violent extremists for the ‘long haul’
The commander of SOCOM said battling violent extremists groups will remain the number one priority for American commandos.
New for 2020: Black Sea patrols have remained consistent under Trump
U.S. Navy patrols to the Black Sea have remained consistent over the last several years despite testimony during President Trump’s impeachment hearings that Trump ordered the maneuvers be canceled.
Trump says al-Baghdadi 'died like a dog’ in US commando raid in Syria
Al-Baghdadi’s last moments alive were spent in “panic and dread” as the ISIS leader was “terrified of the American forces bearing down on him," and he died “whimpering and crying and screaming” like a coward, Trump told reporters Sunday.
This could be the Corps’ next grenade
The grenade is modular, so a Marine can increase or decrease explosive power by adding grenade bodies.
An unmanned ship that can travel 500 nautical miles without resupply ― the Corps is looking at it
You can put whatever weapon systems “you can dream on it.”
The 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit is deploying to Central and South America
It’s not common for Marines to deploy to South America aboard amphib ships
State of the Marine Corps: Inside the Corps’ warplans to sink ships
Sinking ships is not something the Marine Corps has done since World War II — but it's thinking about it now.
Armored reconnaissance vehicle prototypes to be evaluated by the Marines by the end of 2020
The Corps plans to have a replacement for one of its oldest combat vehicles, the light armored vehicle, or LAV, by the end of the next decade.
Grunts to get new binocular night vision goggles by spring 2020 ― and they’re not green
The Corps expects delivery of 14,000 devices, with the first sets to be doled out to grunts around spring of 2020.
What war with Iran could look like
Military Times interviewed more than a dozen military experts, including current and former U.S. military officials, about how a conflict might begin and how it could play out. This is what they said could happen:
