Command of the support arm for the Marine Corps’ rapid response force in the Indo-Pacific is now in the hands of a general on his third Okinawa tour.

The mayor of a Japanese city, saying he was assured of the Osprey’s safety, has signed off on a U.S. Navy plan to put tiltrotors at the neighboring Marine Corps base.

The U.S. Army captured bragging rights as the year’s top military Call of Duty team, defeating squads from the U.S., U.K. and Canadian armed services to win the glittering trophy at Call of Duty Endowment Bowl V.

Dennis Connors, a world champion in the T2 road race, will compete in two events at the Paris games.

A U.S. Marine died after falling from a bridge over a dam in Nago City, military and local officials said.

Retired Maj. Gen. William Mullen, who was found dead in the guest quarters at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms in June, died of a pulmonary embolism, authorities said Thursday. Mullen served as commanding officer at the installation from 2016 to 2017.

It’s back to school on Marine Corps Base Quantico. U.S. Marines welcomed DODEA students and staff back to the classrooms with motivational high-fives and cheers at Quantico Middle/High School and Crossroads Elementary School on Wednesday.

The new U.S. consul general on Okinawa said he takes “very seriously” the indictments this year of U.S. service members for alleged sexual assaults, according to a prefectural spokesman.

Quarried material for a new U.S. military airfield is once again being shipped to a northern port after a nearly two-month pause spurred by a fatal truck accident.

Maj. Tobin Lewis, one of two pilots killed in an Osprey crash in Australia last August, also piloted a tiltrotor that went down off Okinawa in 2016, according to a Marine Corps report.

An investigation is ongoing into a nearly fatal training accident at a Marine Corps base in California, service officials said.

The Okinawa branch of Japan’s Defense Ministry has asked the Okinawa government to install guard rails at an island port where a security guard was killed and a protestor injured in June.

Two members of the 12th Marine Littoral Regiment are the first in the Marine Corps to be promoted at a Japanese army base on Ishigaki, 150 miles west of Taiwan.

Cpl. Spencer Collart, who died last August trying to rescue two fellow Marines from a fiery Osprey crash in Australia, will be posthumously honored with the service’s highest noncombat award: the Navy and Marine Corps Medal, awarded for acts of heroism at great risk to the servicemember’s life.

Marines from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit were welcomed home by family and friends Saturday at Camp Pendleton in California after returning from deployment.

Australia should welcome a U.S. Marine Corps rotational force eight times the size of one that now spends six months each year near the northern city of Darwin, a conservative Australian think tank said in a recent report.

U.S. and Japanese military officials touted the Marine Corps’ newest littoral unit, new radar technology and the countries’ alliance during a ceremony marking the close of joint drills Wednesday.

A Marine jumped to aid a fellow service member injured in a single-car crash while attempting to leave the home of the Air Force’s 18th Wing this week.

MCAS Iwakuni notified Yamaguchi prefecture and Iwakuni city it had exterminated 460 black widow, redback and brown widow spiders between April 22 and July 21, an official with the city’s environmental policy section said by phone Friday.