AUGUST 28, 2025 - Marine Corps Support Facility Blount Island demonstrated its strategic value Aug. 25 by enabling the launch of CV-22 Ospreys assigned to Air Force Special Operations Command, underscoring the role of maritime prepositioning infrastructure in sustaining global readiness. The aircraft were offloaded from contracted sealift at Dames Point Marine Terminal in … [Read more...]

U.S. Marines with Combat Logistics Battalion 15 (CLB-15), Combat Logistics Regiment 17, 1st Marine Logistics Group, assigned to Joint Task Force-Southern Border (JTF-SB), emplace concertina wire onto the southern border barrier in order to repair a section of the barrier in Yuma, Ariz., July 29, 2025. CLB-15 utilizes concertina wire to repair and reinforce sections of the … [Read more...]

AUGUST 18, 2025 - Marine Corps Sgt. Robert Emmett O'Malley embodied the Marine ethos of honor, courage and commitment. During heavy fighting in the Vietnam War in 1965, he was more concerned about saving the lives of those around him than his own. His actions led him to become the service's first Vietnam War Medal of Honor recipient. O'Malley was born June 3, 1943, in … [Read more...]

AUGUST 18, 2025 - The 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing celebrated the 100th anniversary of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 232 “Red Devils,” an F/A-18 squadron with Marine Aircraft Group 11, during a commemorative ceremony Aug. 15, 2025. The event honored the Marine Corps’ oldest active fighter attack squadron, and brought together approximately 600 guests, including squadron … [Read more...]

AUGUST 18, 2025 — At the close of Exercise Talisman Sabre 25, the Indo-Pacific’s largest combined military exercise with over 40,000 service members, U.S. Marines with the Marine Rotational Force – Darwin (MRF-D) 25.3 Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF) began the mass retrograde from training areas across northern Australia. Aircraft, vehicles, and personnel returned to Darwin … [Read more...]