WASHINGTON — The U.S. military says it has called off the search for three U.S. Marines who are missing after their tilt-rotor aircraft crashed into the sea Saturday off Australia’s east coast. Twenty-three other people aboard the MV-22 Osprey have been rescued. A Marine Corps statement says they have begun a recovery effort in coordination with […]
Sixteen military personnel died in the crash of a KC-123T that went down in western Mississippi while on a training flight on Monday. The aircraft, which can be used to move troops as well as conduct mid-air refueling, was moving equipment, fifteen Marines, and a Navy Corpsman from Cherry Point, North Carolina to California when […]
WASHINGTON, June 5, 2014 – President Barack Obama has nominated Marine Corps Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., who has commanded U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan since February 2013, to be the 36th commandant of the Marine Corps, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced today. If confirmed by the Senate, Dunford will succeed Gen. James […]