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Anthony Easton closed out 31 years with the Marine Corps this week by turning over his duties as sergeant major of Marine ...

U.S. Marines with the Advanced Infantry Training Battalion (AITB), School of Infantry – East executed a live-fire combined ...

Former officials from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, or CFPB, are calling the watchdog's choice to let Navy ...

U.S. Marines and Japanese soldiers leapt over walls, clambered along pipes and shimmied up ropes in an obstacle race to kick ...

The military often highlights paths to citizenship as a recruiting tactic, though fulfillment of policies such as PIP has ...

Olivia Medeiros, a retired Marine Corps Staff Sergeant, has traded the spotlight of acting auditions for a uniform, finding ...

When the Lakewood Ranch Business Alliance decided to plan its 2025 Small Business Bootcamp, it was fitting it decided to recruit Eric Konovalov to speak at one of the sessions. First of all, Konovalov ...

Lodi resident Frank Wright reached a milestone today as he turned 100, and to celebrate, he asked people from all over the country to send birthday cards. He set a goal to receive 100,000, and as of ...

A man with Riverbend roots rises to one of the U.S. Marine Corps’ most selective ranks, earning the title of warrant officer ...

What: All veterans are welcome to meet for breakfast Monday mornings at 8 a.m. at Revel Spokane, 16807 E. Mission Parkway, Spokane Valley. Vietnam Vets of America Chapter 879 meets the third Wednesday ...

War is hell—but on television, it can also be pretty funny, as proven by the history of classic TV military comedies. For ...