The Navy is focusing on renovating its squalid unaccompanied housing and stepping up maintenance and management of living conditions. The effort is meant to address issues identified by a 2023 GAO report that found poor living conditions across DOD-owned housing.

The seven-month deployment entailed high-profile exercises in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea and the Baltic Sea, the latter of which prompted flyovers by Russian bombers, and over a dozen port visits.

The lawsuits filed by the mother of 24-year-old Navy Corpsman Devon Rideout alleged the Marine Corps and the California Department of Justice failed to properly submit information about the background of Rideout’s killer, a Marine Corps deserter.

The Marine Corps activated its first F-35C Lightning II stealth fighter squadron on the East Coast on Thursday, with the reactivation of the legendary Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 251 at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point near Camp Lejeune, N.C.

Children between 1 and 2 years old were forcefully placed in chairs and shoved into tables, forced to use their own hands to hit themselves, hit with toys, and carried by just an arm or a leg and then left alone when they cried in pain, according to the five separate lawsuits.

U.S. military bases across the country and around the world are hosting Christmas tree lighting ceremonies and festive activities for service members and their families this month to celebrate the beginning of the holiday season.

The Marine Corps’ second-ever littoral anti-air battalion gives its seaborne quick-reaction force the means to defend against aerial attacks on contested islands in the Indo-Pacific.

Camp Pendleton has begun large-scale training exercises to prepare Marines to operate from a base in Darwin, Australia, early next year, part of a larger U.S. effort to deepen ties with a key ally in the Indo-Pacific.

A driving factor is the Navy and Marine Corps are at odds about how many amphibious ships are needed to deploy Marines effectively, the GAO said. The report outlines recommendations for the services to work together to refine their availability goals for amphibious ships.

Human bones discovered this spring on Camp Schwab have prompted Okinawa police to request public assistance in identifying the remains.