The Navy will christen the newest guided-missile destroyer, the future USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG 121) Saturday, Oct. 6, during a 10:00 a.m. CDT ceremony at Huntington Ingalls Industries shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi.

The U.S. Department of Defense announced the results of the Department’s sixth public bug bounty program, Hack the Marine Corps, which ran August 12th through August 31st.

A 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing F-35B belonging to Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron 501 (VMFAT-501) stationed at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort crashed in the vicinity of Beaufort, South Carolina at approximately 11:45 a.m. (EST), today.

The Marine Corps F-35B, Lightning II, conducted its first combat strikes in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility in support of Operation Freedom's Sentinel in Afghanistan, Sept. 27.

On Wednesday, October 17, 2018, President Donald J. Trump will award the Medal of Honor to Sergeant Major John L. Canley, United States Marine Corps (Retired), for conspicuous gallantry.

This morning at 5 A.M. II Marine Expeditionary Force Marines with two hardback Humvees and two assault amphibian vehicles (AAVs) were deployed about three miles away from Camp Lejeune down Piney Green road to assist in an emergency extraction of about 20 civilians whose residences were threatened by rising flood waters.

The Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) and the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS Arlington (LPD 24), embarked with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), are ready to support Hurricane Florence relief efforts off the, mid-Atlantic coast.

As we aggressively execute our National Defense Strategy and make our force more lethal, I remind you that enhanced lethality demands more than increasing the size of our formations and obtaining newer, more advanced equipment - it also requires having a more disciplined force.

A combined effort of U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, and Philippine ships and aircraft are currently searching for a Marine, assigned to the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) embarked aboard USS Essex (LHD 2). The Marine was reported missing while the ship was conducting routine operations in the Sulu Sea, August 9.

Officials at Marine Corps Installations Pacific (MCIPAC) have developed a new and improved Correctional Custody Unit pilot program, called "CCU 2.0”, which will be implemented this month aboard Camp Hansen in Okinawa, Japan. This test program affords