Initially, the Marines were used to take over beaches for the Navy. 1798, marked the beginning of the Marine Corps, as it then became its own official branch of the military. Although the Marine Corps has its own aviation unit, the Navy still mainly supports Marines by air and sea. The...
Postwar,PC-564was dispatched to Pearl Harbor where she was placed in service as a Naval Reserve Training vessel and general district craft assigned to the 14th Naval District. While stationed there, she was namedChadronon 15 February 1956, one of 102 sisters who lasted long enough to earn a...
US Marines keep watch as unseen Afghan National Army soldiers participate in a training exercise in Helmand in 2017 (Getty Images) On Tuesday, the Taliban clapped back at Trump and outright refused the suggestion it could return any of the leftover US military equipment. ...
The Gadsden flag was at one time the motto flag of the US Marines. Nowadays it represents the Tea Party people who are sick of Washington failing and making the People their personal slaves. According to Wikipedia, the Gadsden flag was designed and named after Christoph...
Generalmajor Adolf Galland’s prescribed method of attack for single engine fighters was to make head on, or oblique, attacks from slightly above the bomber formation, carried out by at least a Schwarm, or two pairs of fighters (Marshall & Ford 267). This achieved two things, it increased...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy will begin rolling out a conversational artificial intelligence program known as “Amelia” that’s capable of troubleshooting and resolving the most commonly asked tech-support questions from sailors, Marines and civilian personnel. ...
During World War II, US demolition crews faced the critical task of dismantling enemy fortifications and obstacles, sometimes under fire. They lacked a dedicated vehicle for this in the US arsenal. Various tools, like dozer blade kits and high-explosive rounds, were employed instead. This gap ...
The Marines turned on the engines to full power, and checked the temperature using the cockpit instruments. If it was low, they shut off the engine, and took a pair of large pliers and bent crimps into the hot tailpipe to shrink the diameter of the outlet. They then turned it up agai...
"Across our agency, we have a renewed focus on customer service -- every decision we make is through the eyes of our patron -- striving to meet their needs, be it extended hours, special orders or commissary delivery." The home delivery system is part of a series...
‘Courageous and necessary’: Elie Honig on US attorney quitting after defying Trump orders 03:05 Inspector general fired by Trump calls the termination 'very troubling' 03:08 Doctor shares what worries him the most about RFK Jr. leading HHS 01:46 CNN — Thousands of additional active...