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• Corps announces O-2 promotions for January

  Created: Tuesday, 29 December 2009 11:59 Author:

  These active-duty officers will be promoted to first lieutenant in January, according to the Marine Corps:Ruben Esquivel, Jr.                      Dan...

• Gathering with departing Marine turns tragic

  Created: Tuesday, 29 December 2009 11:59 Author:

  BIDDEFORD, Maine — A group of friends gathered to spend time with a Marine who expects to deploy soon when a deck collapsed Saturday.The friends gathered to spend time with Jarrell Hughes, 18, who is in the Corps and is expected to deploy to Afghani...

• Dad of fallen Marine denied death benefits

  Created: Tuesday, 29 December 2009 11:59 Author:

  ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled that the father of a Marine killed in Iraq is not entitled to a share of death benefits that went to his mother.The appeals court said Tuesday that Levi Angell, of Cloquet, had designated his mo...

• Firm employs large number of Pentagon mentors

  Created: Tuesday, 29 December 2009 11:59 Author:

  In a marketplace awash in consulting firms that help defense companies sell to the Pentagon, the Durango Group has a unique advantage. The Colorado-based firm has become a base of operations for retired officers who also are handsomely paid by the militar...

• Karzai sends team to probe student death claim

  Created: Tuesday, 29 December 2009 11:59 Author:

  KABUL — President Hamid Karzai sent a government delegation Tuesday to investigate Afghan reports that 10 civilians, including eight students, were killed in fighting involving foreign troops in a tense area of eastern Afghanistan. A NATO official s...

• Corps wants an end to sex assaults – now

  Created: Tuesday, 29 December 2009 11:59 Author:

  With reported sex assaults in the Marine Corps up 40 percent since 2007, top service officials have ordered a crackdown to stop all forms of crude and inappropriate behavior, and Marines of every rank will be enlisted to help.The push will include new tra...

• Futenma dispute strains ties with Japan

  Created: Tuesday, 29 December 2009 11:59 Author:

  GINOWAN, Japan — When the U.S. took over a Japanese airfield here in the closing days of World War II, it was surrounded by sugarcane fields and the smoldering battlegrounds of Okinawa. It is now the focus of a deepening dispute that is testing Japa...

• Lab works to solve Korean War MIA mysteries

  Created: Tuesday, 29 December 2009 11:59 Author:

  PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii — The mottled brown skull and other remains — a lower jaw with eight teeth and a pair of fillings, seven right side ribs, part of a pelvis and some arm and leg bones — showed evidence of dirt and looked like they wer...

• Humvees could get V-shaped hulls

  Created: Tuesday, 29 December 2009 11:59 Author:

  The Corps wants to install V-shaped hulls on some of its up-armored Humvees. The move would offer Marines more protection from improvised explosive device blasts while the defense industry continues to address concerns with the military’s next-gener...

• Corps has stake in Army’s M4 redesign

  Created: Tuesday, 29 December 2009 11:59 Author:

  The Marine Corps may have a new service rifle to consider in the future, as the Army pursues a redesign of the M4 carbine.The Army effort is aimed at making the 5.56mm weapon shoot cleaner and straighter, and with higher rates of fire. The service is awai...