The new F-35 Pilot Training Center at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, S.C., is gearing up for full operations. "Right now, we are basically in predeployment training," explained Lieutenant Colonel...
Mission Execution
Mar 11, 2014
Newly Minted TBS Graduate Embarks on Journey as a Logistician
The Marine Corps Association & Foundation presented awards to the top graduates of The Basic School’s (TBS) Fox Company at Little Hall on Marine Corps...
Mar 11, 2014
Commandant of the Marine Corps Addresses Rolled Sleeves
Sun out guns out! Commandant of the Marine Corps General James F. Amos speaks out on the decision to roll up sleeves at the...
Mar 4, 2014
Standout Marine Logisticians Honored at 10th Annual Ground Logistics Awards Dinner
The Marine Corps Association & Foundation hosted the 10th Annual Ground Logistics Awards dinner Feb. 27, 2014 at The...
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World War II: Pavuvu
Pavuvu. Say it slowly: PahVOO-VOO. Doesn't it bring a mental image of a tropical paradise, palm trees swaying in a gentle breeze, the soft scent of hibiscus blossoms filling...
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Building a Quality Force for Tomorrow
We exist today we flourish today not because of what we know we are, or what we know we can do, but because of what the grassroots of our country believes we are and believes we can do. . . . The...
Corps Daily News
Military Retirement: Change Ahead?
San Diego Union-Tribune
Pentagon Says Benghazi Probes Cost Millions
Associated Press
House Lawmakers Cool to DoD Pay, Benefits Proposals
Marine Corps Times
Military to Pay Some Lab Tests Tricare Does Not
Marine Corps Times
Some Vets Won’t Have to Report Income for VA Care
Marine Corps Times
From Our Blogs
MCA&F Blog
Initially I was thrilled about my assignment to the 1st Provisional Historical Platoon because that meant I would soon see some action. I was a newly-promoted corporal and ordered to combat training at Tent Camp II, Camp Pendleton, CA in early 1951. I was on orders with five other guys, only three I now remember: Otis Bledsoe, Helge “Swede” Bruland, and Bill Boehm, later to be best man at my wedding in 1953...
The Gazette Blog
As the Marine Corps ends over a decade of sustained combat operations and is reduced to its lowest force structure in recent history, leaders at all levels need to be more adaptive than ever. The Marine Corps has faced similar problems in the past but still managed to drive excellence and...
Upcoming Programs & Events
Mar 27, 2014 - 17:00
Directions to the Globe and Laurel
Meet Major Rick Spooner, USMC (Ret), the author of ...
Apr 3, 2014 - 16:00
Directions to The National Museum of the Marine Corps
Join us for the presentation of the 2014 Wounded Warrior Awards.
We will be presenting:
- The ...
Apr 9, 2014 - 18:00
Camp Lejeune Maps
Hosted by the Marine Corps Association & Foundation in conjunction with the...
Marine Corps History
Today in History
March 26
1953
The 1stMarDiv defeated Communist Chinese in the Battle for “Vegas” Hill in Korea.
1944
WWII, Marines of 1st Provisional Marine Brigade land on Kili Island and Namorik Atoll, Marshall Islands.
This Month in History
The Manchu Dynasty had been gradually losing its hold on the people of the Celestial Empire throughout the greater part of the nineteenth century, largely on account of humiliating defeats in foreign wars and...