SMMC:Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps SNCO:Staff Non-Commissioned Officer Miscellaneous AT:Antiterrorism BAH:Basic Allowance for Housing CAX:Combined Arms Exercise CID:Combat Identification CONUS:Continental United States CP:Command Post CT:Counterterrorism ...
The Force Structure Review, which was approved by Defense Secretary Robert Gates in February, calls for the service's end strength to drop from the current level of 202,000 Marines to 186,800 after American forces withdraw from Afghanistan.Cid StandiferInside the Pentagon...
The U.S. Marine Corps has issued details on its ban of public depictions of the Confederate battle flag on Marine installations. The depictions that arebannedinclude clothing, a flag, poster, bumper stickers and mugs. "The Confederate battle flag has all too often ...
Vasillios has seven days to submit a request for clemency to the convening officer, the Marines said. Two other Marines were arrested in May 2017 for flying a white supremacist banner at a pro-confederate rally in North Carolina,according toveteransnews site Task & P...
SMMC: Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps SNCO: Staff Non-Commissioned Officer Miscellaneous AT: Antiterrorism BAH: Basic Allowance for Housing CAX: Combined Arms Exercise CID: Combat Identification CONUS: Continental United States CP: Command Post CT: Counterterrorism CY: Calendar Year DEP: Delayed...
Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Conway conceded this week that the Marines might not be able to purchase their full requirement of Expeditionary Fighting Vehicles.rnThe program has been troubled since its inception, and Defense Secretary Robert Gates has publicly called into question the need for...
The Marine Corps' reset budget picture is in flux because of the service's changing force structure, the secretary of the Navy told reporters this week. At an April 27 Defense Writers Group breakfast, Secretary Ray Mabus said the $ 10.4 billion figure that has been discussed as the amount ...
The new commandant of the Marine Corps yesterday presented a vision of the service focused far more on light-on-their-feet Marines fighting in small wars than on full-scale combat.rnGen. James Amos, who officially took the helm of the service last month, told an auditorium Ml of Marines ...