Category Archives: U.S. Marine Corps

Marines Issue New Doctrine Prioritizing Learning

May 19, 2020 4:31 PM

Recruits of Hotel Company, 2nd Recruit Training Battalion, and Oscar Company, 4th Recruit Training Battalion, answer a question during the final written test Nov. 9, 2015, on Parris Island, S.C. The test randomizes 100 questions on subjects varying from core values to Marine Corps history and combat care. US Marine Corps photo.

The Marine Corps wants to take learning more seriously, both encouraging the individual warfighter to take on a “personal mission” to read and study more and pushing learning institutions to revamp how they train and teach to have a more lasting impact, the commanding general of Training and Education Command (TECOM) told reporters. Read More →

USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker: May 18, 2020

May 18, 2020 11:29 AM

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These are the approximate positions of the U.S. Navy’s deployed carrier strike groups and amphibious ready groups throughout the world as of May 18, 2020, based on Navy and public data. In cases where a CSG or ARG is conducting disaggregated operations, the chart reflects the location of the capital ship. Read More →

How USS Makin Island, Fleet Medical Team Responded to COVID-19 Outbreak on USS Kidd

By: Gidget Fuentes

May 17, 2020 10:02 AM

Amphibious assault ship USS Makin Island (LHD-8) underway in the eastern Pacific on April 20, 2020. US Navy Photo

When a COVID-19 outbreak hit USS Kidd (DDG-100) last month, the Navy sent a medical team with specialized lab equipment to the guided-missile destroyer to test for novel coronavirus among the crew. An outbreak at sea could easily and quickly overwhelm a warship’s small medical department, in this case an independent-duty corpsman and two hospital corpsmen in a crew of about 330. Read More →

Report to Congress on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Program

May 14, 2020 7:49 AM

The following is the May 13, 2020 Congressional Research Service report, F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Program. Read More →

USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker: May 11, 2020

May 11, 2020 2:15 PM

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These are the approximate positions of the U.S. Navy’s deployed carrier strike groups and amphibious ready groups throughout the world as of May 11, 2020, based on Navy and public data. In cases where a CSG or ARG is conducting disaggregated operations, the chart reflects the location of the capital ship. Read More →

SECNAV Nominee Braithwaite Written Statements to SASC

May 7, 2020 10:31 AM

The following are the written statements from Secretary of the Navy nominee Kenneth Braithwaite submitted to the Senate Armed Services Committee ahead of a May 7, 2020 hearing. Read More →

Report to Congress on Nonstrategic Nuclear Weapons

May 7, 2020 9:15 AM

The following is the May 4, 2020 Congressional Research Service report, Nonstrategic Nuclear Weapons. Read More →

Marines Will Resume Planned Deployment to Australia After COVID-Related Delay

By: Megan Eckstein

May 6, 2020 5:44 PM

U.S. Marines with Marine Rotational Force – Darwin (MRF-D), arrive as part of the force enhancement for the 2019 rotation at RAAF Base Darwin, Australia, on July 17, 2019. Marine Corps Photo

U.S. Marine Corps Forces Pacific will resume its annual deployment to Australia, after the U.S. and Australian governments previously announced a delay due to COVID-19-related travel restrictions. Read More →

Marine Corps Announces New Aviation, Pacific Leadership Assignments

By: Megan Eckstein

May 6, 2020 3:47 PM

Top row (left to right): Lt. Gen. Lewis Craparotta, Lt. Gen. Steven Rudder, Maj. Gen. Mark Wise; Bottom row (left to right): Maj. Gen. Karsten Heckl, Maj. Gen. Dennis Crall, Maj. Gen. David Ottignon

The Marine Corps announced a shuffle of its two- and three-star generals, with nominations of new leadership for Marines in the Pacific, the aviation community, training and education and more. Read More →

SASC Will Consider Braithwaite SECNAV Nomination in Thursday Hearing

By: Ben Werner

May 4, 2020 7:01 PM

Kenneth Braithwaite, the U.S. ambassador to Norway, arrives aboard the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) Navy photo

Kenneth Braithwaite, currently the U.S. ambassador to Norway and President Donald Trump’s nominee to become Secretary of the Navy, is scheduled to appear at a Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing on Thursday.

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