News on U.S. Marine Corps

White House defends honor for Marine

2011-12-15T19:31:10Z

President Barack Obama was proud to award US Marine Dakota Meyer his nation's top honor, his spokesman said Thursday, after the corps rejected reports they exaggerated the young warrior's deeds.

Obama welcomed Meyer, 23, into the exclusive club of Medal of Honor winners in September, for heroically rushing ...

House votes to kill F-35 second engine

2011-02-16T20:30:53Z

In a victory for President Barack Obama, the US House of Representatives voted Wednesday to kill funding for a costly alternate engine for the F-35 fighter aircraft that the Pentagon did not want.

US Defense Secre...

John McCain, Lindsey Graham Furious Over Last-Minute DADT Repeal 'Jam'

2010-12-19T09:00:05Z

Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham are furious over the last-minute 'jam' of legislation that repeals 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'

Senators Lindsey Graham and John McCain are furious over the last-minute 'jam' of legislation that repeals “Don't Ask, Don't Tell.”<...

Kody Ray Brittingham

2010-11-30T13:53:04Z

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A Visual Argument for Virginia Avenue Park

2010-11-02T14:13:13Z

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Top U.S. Pacific Marine says base must be in Okinawa

2010-04-16T07:02:55Z

TOKYO (Reuters) - The top U.S. Marine in the Pacific said on Friday that his forces needed to be based on the southern island of Okinawa for strategic reasons, as Tokyo struggles to resolve a dispute with AP News in Brief at 5:58 p.m. EDT

Sonia Sotomayor will tell her story to jury tilted in her favor as high court hearings begin

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sonia Sotomayor has decided advantages as she begins the most important trial of her long legal career, a nationally televised consideration of her nomination to be the first Hispanic and just the third woman on the Supreme Court.

Beginnin...

Fact check on war spending

2010-09-10T15:24:19Z

Fact Check: Bush and Congressional Democrats Spar Over Iraq War Spending

President Bush and congressional Democrats are locked in a fight on Iraq spending, each struggling for the upper hand in public perception.

For both sides, this rhetorical tug-of-war is a question of leadership on n...

Marine: DOD held interrogation testimony

2010-09-10T09:20:34Z

Marine Corp Lawyer Says Pentagon Blocked Testimony on Harsh Interrogation Methods

A Marine Corps lawyer told a House subcommittee Thursday the Pentagon blocked him from testifying that harsh interrogation methods tripped up his prosecution of a suspected terrorist.

The accusation came as the debate over detainee treatment continued to aff...

Full court access urged for detainees

2010-09-09T16:35:02Z

Former Military Officials, European Leaders Side With Detainees on Access to U.S. Courts

Twenty retired federal judges, two rear admirals and a Marine general joined 383 current or former members of the European and British parliaments on Friday in urging the Supreme Court to grant detainees at Guantanamo Bay full access to the U.S. court system.

Lower court rulings supporting the Bush administratio...

South Korea Koreas Clash

2010-12-09T07:31:38Z

South Korean Gen. Han Min-koo, chairman of South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff, center, talks with Marines at a Marine base on Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea, Thursday, Dec. 9, ...

Afghanistan Medevac Unit

2010-12-05T05:32:08Z

In this Sept. 2, 2010 photo, a U.S. Marine, left, Flight Medic Staff Sgt. Richard Jarrett, second from right, and Crew Chief Spc. Bryan Channon, of Okla., help U.S. Marine Pfc. Justin Turner, center, of

APTOPIX Afghanistan Medevac Unit

2010-12-05T05:32:04Z

In this Sept. 2, 2010 photo, a U.S. Marine, left, and U.S. Amy Flight Medic Staff Sgt. Richard Jarrett, right, rush U.S. Marine Pfc. Justin Turner, center, of Flower Mound, Texas, who was wounded in an IED attack, across an irrigated field deep with mud to a waiting Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey Jr., Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead, Joint Chiefs Vice Chairman Marine Corps Gen. James Cartwright, Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Amos, ...

Marine Corps Commandant

2010-12-01T09:02:26Z

Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Amos, right, talks with outgoing House Armed Services Committee Chairman Rep. Ike Skelton, D-Mo., after the colors are raised at the Marine Corps Barracks in