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The Early Bird, December 30, 1998. The Early Bird was a newsletter collated daily by public affairs officials from the United States Department of Defense and released early every morning from 1963 until 2013. [1] It contained approximately three dozen stories taken from publications ranging from major newspapers to niche defence journals.
The Army Times Publishing Company later added Air Force Times, Navy Times, and, in 1999, Marine Corps Times. [4] Marine Corps Times writer C. Mark Brinkley was among the first journalists to embed with ground troops in Afghanistan in November 2001 during Operation Swift Freedom, which was the Pentagon's first opportunity to Embed Journalists. [5]
Eric M. Smith (born 1964 or 1965) [1] is a United States Marine Corps four-star general who has served as the 39th commandant of the Marine Corps since 22 September 2023. [2] [3] He served as acting commandant of the Marine Corps between 10 July 2023 and 22 September 2023 while awaiting Senate confirmation.
Maj. Gen. William Mullen, 59, was found dead at Twentynine Palms military base Saturday. The Naval Criminal Investigative Service is investigating.
Beginning in the early 1950s the Marine Corps aligned itself with the Navy and their development of surface-to-air missiles (SAMs). The Marine Corps retained both flak weapons and SAMs throughout the 1950s until the fielding of the MIM-23 Hawk Missile System in 1960. The HAWK Missile was employed by Light Antiaircraft Missile (LAAM) battalions ...
Marine Corps Intelligence is the intelligence arm of the United States Marine Corps (USMC) and an element of the United States Intelligence Community.The Director of Intelligence supervises the Intelligence Department of HQMC and is responsible for policy, plans, programming, budgets, and staff supervision of Intelligence and supporting activities within the U.S. Marine Corps as well as ...
On 20 July 1992, pre-production V-22 #4's right engine failed and caused the aircraft to drop into the Potomac River by Marine Corps Base Quantico with an audience of Department of Defense and industry officials. [8] [9] [10] Flammable liquids collected in the right nacelle and led to an engine fire and subsequent failure. All seven on board ...
Force Design 2030, also known as FD2030, is an ongoing force restructuring plan by the United States Marine Corps to reshape its combat power for future near-peer adversary conflicts that was introduced in March 2020 by the Commandant of the Marine Corps, General David H. Berger. [1]