Heidi Murkoff, author of the “What to Expect When You’re Expecting” book series, answered questions and gave advice to new and expecting parents during the Bump to Baby Military Baby Shower held at Club Iwakuni on Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, Sept. 15, 2025. In addition to the Q&A session with Murkoff, the event featured baby shower games and a raffle drawing for baby-related prizes. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Isabella R. Mancini)
Most Marines remember the three months spent in recruit training. For many, drill instructors are the reason it's so memorable. As if they were cartoon characters, drill instructors would scream in weird voices with veins popping out of their necks.
Pilots with the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force Fleet Air Wing 31 took to the sky in celebration of a new year over Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni Jan. 7.
Some people anxiously sat down at the recruiting office in their local strip mall where there were large amounts of bodies walking in out of that place to listen to the person across the desk from them with a very peculiar haircut and starch ironed shirt trying to recruit them into the military.
On Sept. 11, 2001, 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda carried out a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks on the United States.
In today’s society, technology plays a bigger role than human interaction. People can do simple day-to-day tasks in the palm of their hand, but how many of those are really a necessity?
