Story by Cpl. Manuel Rivera | Marine Rotational Force - Darwin | 02.28.2024
U.S. Marines and Sailors with 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, participated in a rugby clinic with members of the San Diego Legion professional American rugby team at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Feb. 23....
Story by Cpl. Cameron Hermanet | 1st Marine Division | 06.25.2023
U.S. Marine Corps Col. Christopher Steele turned over the Marine Corps’ most decorated regiment on June 23 to Col. Brian Mulvihill following two years of achievement, development, and success. Family, friends, and fellow Marines gathered on Friday to honor Steele’s success and to formally welcome Mulvihill. Also in attendance was Maj. Gen. Benjamin T. Watson, the commanding general of......
Story by Cpl. Emeline Schirmer | 1st Marine Division | 05.05.2023
If young Abraham Barcenas had been told as he stepped onto the yellow footprints at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, California, in August 2005 that he would reenlist, become a recruiter, and go on two deployments, he wouldn’t have believed it. Originally planning to just spend four years in the Marines, now-Master Sgt. Abraham Barcenas, the career planner staff noncommissioned......
Story by Sgt. Audrey Rampton | 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit | 05.12.2020
Based out of Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan, the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) operates as the forward deployed crisis response force for III Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF) in the Indo-Pacific region. While these Marines and Sailors stand ready to respond to any contingency, on the home front, their families are also finding unique ways to support the MEU and maintain future readiness by......
Story by Capt. George McArthur | 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit | 04.27.2020
The 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit aboard ships of the America Expeditionary Strike Group completed a series of sequential operations rehearsing naval expeditionary and Marine Air-Ground Task Force maneuver from Guam to Okinawa, Japan, March 21-28....
Story by Cpl. Isaac Cantrell | 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit | 04.18.2020
SOUTH CHINA SEA – There are few tokens of gratitude within the Marine Corps that carry as much weight as the paddle – a staple of the Reconnaissance community that symbolizes the respect and honor that a unit holds for a specific Marine. A tradition that dates back to World War II, Recon Marines would be issued a paddle at the beginning of their training that they would be required to take......
Story by Cpl. Isaac Cantrell | 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit | 02.21.2020
SOUTH CHINA SEA -- Since its emergence in 1775, mission accomplishment within the Marine Corps has rested on the shoulders of leaders at the lowest levels; namely, its noncommissioned officers. Often said to be the “backbone of the Marine Corps,” NCOs are in the unique position to serve as the vital link between their junior Marines and their higher leadership and ensure mission......
Story by 1st Lt. Demond Glover | 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit | 02.09.2020
PHILIPPINE SEA- For the first time, the Japanese Ground Self Defense Force (JGSDF) Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade (ARDB) has attached to the America Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG) and embarked with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) for culminating mission training in the vicinity of Kin Blue Beach, Okinawa, Japan, Feb. 9, 2020....
