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Marines break ground on new war game center
MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Virginia ― The Marine Corps broke ground here on what it plans will be a state-of-the-art war gaming center, to direct war fighting experiments and pull feedback from across the fleet to continuously refine how Marines fight. Lt. Gen. Eric Smith told the audience that the $79 million center will help …
Navy, Marines Push Plans To Transform How They Fight « Breaking Defense
An Unmanned Surface Vessel navigates a set course at Camp Lejeune, July 2019. WASHINGTON: The Navy and Marine Corps are testing radically new ways of operating in the Pacific by sending experimental unmanned ships into an ambitious exercise next week. Underpinning that exercise is an ambitious new plan for island-hopping that demands a fast implementation …
Search ends for seven Marines and one sailor feared dead off California coast
The effort to find them has concluded after an extensive 40-hour search following the incident Thursday, the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force said. Officials determined there was little probability of a successful outcome. “It is with a heavy heart, that I decided to conclude the search and rescue effort,” said Col. Christopher Bronzi, a commanding officer. …
Breaking and entering not his strong suit, cameras rolled as man ‘destroyed’ Milwaukee Marine’s A/C
MILWAUKEE — A Milwaukee man is hopeful you can help identify an unwelcome guest. The stranger never made it inside the couple’s home, but caused a lot of damage, and was caught on camera. After trying to get into three different homes, the guy ran off. That was the only smart decision he made. Dressed …
Lawmakers Blast Lockheed, DoD Over F-35 Parts Problems « Breaking Defense
Lockheed Martin F-35 production line WASHINGTON: In a stormy two-hour hearing, members of the House Oversight Committee lambasted Lockheed Martin and Pentagon officials for putting pilots at risk of accidents by failing to fix the F-35’s troubled maintenance system. “Fix this now, before you have blood on your hands,” said Rep. Rashida Talib. Criticism and …
Japan is Deploying its First Marines Since World War II to Counter China
Seventy-five years ago, the sight of 300 Japanese marines storming rolling onto a Queensland beach in hulking tracked amphibious vehicles would have heralded a catastrophic setback to Australia’s national security. But obviously, the world has changed quite a bit since World War II. The soldiers from Japan’s Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade (ARB) were not invaders, …
NOVA Program Taps AWS to Train Marines in Data Intelligence — Campus Technology
Data Analytics NOVA Program Taps AWS to Train Marines in Data Intelligence Northern Virginia Community College is working with the U.S. Marine Corps and Amazon Web Services to develop a set of courses focused on data intelligence. The new courses will cover cloud computing, data analytics, machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) topics. To …
Graves of World War II Marines, sailors likely found on remote Pacific island of Tarawa
A nonprofit organization that searches for the remains of U.S. servicemen lost in past conflicts has found what officials believe are the graves of more than 30 Marines and sailors killed in one of the bloodiest battles of World War II. A team working on the remote Pacific atoll of Tarawa found the graves in …
Battle of Tarawa: Graves of 30 U.S. Marines, sailors found on Pacific World War II battlefield
Honolulu – A nonprofit organization that searches for the remains of U.S. servicemen lost in past conflicts has found what officials believe are the graves of more than 30 Marines and sailors killed in one of the bloodiest battles of World War II. A team working on the remote Pacific atoll of Tarawa found the …
New Hampshire motorcycle crash: Truck driver Volodoymyr Zhukovskyy charged with 7 counts of negligent homicide
7 dead in New Hampshire motorcycle crash Police arrested the pickup truck driver who allegedly caused a crash in New Hampshire last Friday that killed seven motorcyclists, CBS Boston reports. New Hampshire State Police announced that 23-year-old Volodoymyr Zhukovskyy has been charged with seven counts of negligent homicide. Investigators say Zhukovskyy was driving a pickup …
