MAY 6, 2025 – U.S. service members tested the newly authorized Neros Archer drone during a showcase at Range 220, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, March 12, 2025.  The Neros Archer drone is a first person view platform built to deliver modular warheads on the Blue Unmanned Aerial System list that is authorized for official Department of … [Read more...]

MAY 2, 2025 - Weapons Training Battalion – Quantico hosted the Marine Corps Championships, the culminating event of the Marine Corps Marksmanship Competitions, from April 10–18 at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia. The Marine Corps Championships brought together 80 top shooters from the Fleet Marine Force and the British Royal Marines for eight days of competition. The … [Read more...]

APRIL 30, 2025 – The phrase, ‘Once a Marine, always a Marine,’ has been a well-known principle throughout all Marines past and present. For Retired U.S. Marine Corps Col. George Newton, it was more present than ever during his 100th birthday celebration at the Silvergate Assisted Living Center in Fallbrook, Calif., April 27, 2025. Upon turning 100-years-old, the World War … [Read more...]

APRIL 29, 2025 - U.S. Marines with 3d Marine Littoral Regiment, 3d Marine Division, deployed to the Philippines in support of Exercise Balikatan 25, scheduled for April 21 to May 9, 2025. During this year’s iteration of the Integrated Air and Missile Defense event (IAMD), one of the six Combined Joint All-Domain Operations events scheduled during Balikatan 25, U.S. Marines with … [Read more...]

U.S. Marines with 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, Marine Rotational Force – Darwin 25.3 unload cargo from a U.S. Air Force C-130J with 36th Airlift Squadron, 374th Airlift Wing after their arrival to Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Philippines, from Mindanao for Balikatan 2025, April 15, 2025. Balikatan is a longstanding annual exercise between U.S. and Philippine armed forces … [Read more...]