WASHINGTON, November 15, 2013 - After days of logistical challenges that kept thousands of Tacloban City's desperate storm survivors cut off from food, water and medical supplies, air and overland routes are starting to open, senior administration officials familiar with the relief effort said Nov. 13. Since it made landfall in the Philippines Nov. 7, Super Typhoon Haiyan … [Read more...]

MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP S. D. BUTLER, OKINAWA, Japan, November 13, 2013 - Four additional MV-22B Ospreys departed Marine Corps Air Station Futenma Nov. 13 to support Operation Damayan, a humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HADR) operation in the Republic of the Philippines following Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda. As of Tuesday 129,000 pounds of relief supplies have been … [Read more...]

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10, 2013 - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel commemorated the Marine Corps’ 238th birthday here today by praising the legacy of “one of the world’s oldest, and most admired and respected fighting forces” and vowing to work to keep it strong for the future. “Whenever our nation has called, the Marines have been ready,” Hagel … [Read more...]

CAMP HANSEN, Okinawa, Japan, November 7, 2013 Marines, sailors, families, and friends of the 31st MEU, It was 238 years ago, on 10 November 1775, that the Second Continental Congress passed a resolution stating that “two Battalions of Marines be raised” for service as landing forces with the U.S. Navy. Only five short months later in March 1776, the first … [Read more...]