CAMP HANSEN, Okinawa, Japan—Marines with 7th Communication Battalion, III Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group, established a communication node at Camp Shields after displacing from Marine Corps Air Station Futenma during Kaiju Rain 26, May 8, 2026.
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MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Va.—Over 100 Crossroads Elementary School and Quantico Middle High School students participated in MCB Quantico’s Presidential Fitness Test at Butler Stadium, April 12.
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Across five humanitarian and civic assistance sites in the Philippines, U.S. service members, Armed Forces of the Philippines personnel, local leaders, barangay rural health workers and community members worked together during Exercise Balikatan 2026 to strengthen community resilience through health care, education support, infrastructure projects and civil-military engagements.
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U.S. Marines with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) landed an up-armored wrecker May 5 at Marine Corps Support Facility Blount Island in Florida, demonstrating how the service rapidly moves equipment to support operations across the region.
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BALABAC ISLAND, Philippines — U.S. Marines with Marine Rotational Force – Darwin 26, a now-certified Special‑Purpose Marine Air‑Ground Task Force assigned to rotational deployments in the South Pacific, participated in a live-fire assault to secure and hold Balabac Airfield in a demonstration of multi-domain interoperability alongside U.S. Soldiers from 25th Infantry Division, Philippine marines and Australian soldiers during Exercise Balikatan 2026, May 3.
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Training Command launched Ground Reconnaissance Course as part of an updated Marine Reconnaissance training curriculum at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, April 27. GRC is now the initial course in the updated curriculum, which replaces Basic Reconnaissance Course with two new courses: GRC and Amphibious Reconnaissance Course. This change comes from analysis of reconnaissance training and support to Force Design initiatives, including Scout Platoons and multidomain operations.
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Weapons Training Battalion–Quantico and the Marine Corps Shooting Team hosted the Marine Corps Championships, the culminating event of the Marine Corps Marksmanship Competitions, from April 13–24 at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia.
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Marines with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 251 advanced F-35 and other fixed-wing aircraft ground operations by integrating improved communication and digital interoperability capabilities. They demonstrated these advancements during Weapons and Tactics Instructors course 2-26 at Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron One (MAWTS-1), Marine Corps Air Station, Yuma, Arizona, on April 13, 2026.
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U.S. Marines with Marine Rotational Force – Darwin participated in a combined counter-landing live-fire exercise alongside service members from the Armed Forces of the Philippines, Australia Defence Force and New Zealand Defence Force, April 27, 2026.
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3rd Marine Littoral Regiment is contributing more than 1,300 Hawaii-based Marines and Sailors for the 41st iteration of Exercise Balikatan, an expansive multilateral exercise conducted by the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the U.S. military across the Philippine archipelago from April 20 to May 8.
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In a pivotal step for infantry modernization, the Marine Corps has successfully completed Initial Operational Test and Evaluation (IOT&E) and the early capability release of the Organic Precision Fires-Light (OPF-L) system.
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U.S. Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Maura Hennigan, commanding general of 2nd Marine Logistics Group, led dozens of senior logistics leaders in touring the hub of service-managed, forward-positioned equipment April 15 at Marine Corps Support Facility Blount Island, Florida.
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Nearly six decades after his aircraft went down over the South China Sea, Maj. Everett McPherson’s courage in the skies has finally been recognized. In a ceremony filled with solemn reflection and pride, the Marine Corps posthumously awarded McPherson the Distinguished Flying Cross, one of the nation’s highest decorations for heroism in aerial flight.
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On Apr 10, the Marine Corps took a historic step in its modernization journey with the establishment of the Portfolio Acquisition Executive-Marine Corps (PAE-MC). This new organization replaces Program Executive Office Land Systems (PEO-LS) and incorporates programs from Marine Corps Systems Command (MCSC), marking a significant transformation in how the Marine Corps develops and delivers capabilities to its warfighters.
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A Marine Corps technical assistance and advisory team deployed in March from Jacksonville, Florida, in support of a first-of-its-kind maritime prepositioning force offload in the Indo-Pacific region.
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