U.S. Marines with 3d Littoral Combat Team, 3d Marine Littoral Regiment, 3d Marine Division, participate in a ceremony on Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Nov. 26, 2024. At the ceremony, 3d MLR officially received the Navy/Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System from Marine Corps Systems Command, becoming the first U.S. Marine Corps unit to field the system. The NMESIS provides … [Read more...]

U.S. Marine Corps 1st Sgt. Chris Smith, right, company first sergeant for 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, attached to Marine Rotational Force-Southeast Asia, holds a unit flag alongside an Indonesian marine with 10th Marine Infantry Battalion, Indonesian Korps Marinir, after conducting a coastal defense exercise during Keris Marine Exercise (MAREX) 2024 on Kabupaten Lingga, … [Read more...]

A U.S. Navy Sailor attached to the Expeditionary Sea Base (ESB) 6 USS John L. Canley watches a U.S. Marine Corps MV-22B Osprey prepare to land during a deck landing qualification training on the ship as part of exercise Warrior Voyage, off the coast of the island of O'ahu, Hawaii, Oct. 10, 2024. Exercise Warrior Voyage is a group-level training event that evaluates the ESB as … [Read more...]

NOVEMBER 20, 2024 - Marine Corps Systems Command recently reached Fully Operational Capability (FOC) for the MK 22 Mod 0 Advanced Sniper Rifle (ASR). This milestone marks a critical step forward in modernizing the Marine Corps’ sniper capabilities of Reconnaissance and Infantry units. "Fully Operational Capability is achieved when all the Infantry and Reconnaissance units, … [Read more...]

NOVEMBER 20, 2024 – U.S. Marine Corps F-35C Lightning II aircraft, assigned to Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 314 conducted the first F-35C combat air strikes for the platform, Nov. 9-10. VMFA 314, assigned to Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 9 aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), conducted multiple strikes on Houthi weapons storage facilities … [Read more...]