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September 28, 2020 2:18 PM

An overseas deployment with Marines is giving some of the Navy’s first crews that will operate its new cargo-delivery fleet…

August 18, 2020 2:01 PM

Front-line expeditionary forces are getting a new capability that officials say will save lives by enabling small units to have…

January 2, 2020 2:25 PM

THE PENTAGON – After sending Marines from Kuwait to beef up security at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Secretary of…

January 3, 2019 6:05 PM

The Navy deployed a new ship pairing – a destroyer (DDG-51) and an amphibious transport dock (LPD-17) – to test…

October 30, 2018 5:52 PM

THE PENTAGON – The Marine Corps may have expanded its use of ground-based Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Forces (SP-MAGTFs)…

June 11, 2018 4:46 PM

ARLINGTON, Va. — The Marine Corps’ Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF) Crisis Response force in U.S. Central Command…

March 28, 2017 4:29 PM

The Marine Corps released its 2017 Marine Aviation Plan today, outlining its upcoming aircraft acquisition and upgrade plans and providing…

October 11, 2016 1:26 PM

Amphibious transport dock USS Mesa Verde (LPD-19) is in Haiti today and amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7) is…

October 6, 2016 3:40 PM - Updated: October 6, 2016 4:34 PM

More than 420 Marines on two Navy ships are preparing to head to the Caribbean if called upon to respond…

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