The USS Iwo Jima (LPH-2) was the first amphibious assault ship specifically designed as a helicopter carrier, capable of ...

Harriers may not be as advanced as F-35s, but the Marines have found one last mission for them amid Caribbean build-up.

U.S. Marines with the Maritime Raid Force, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) conduct a live-fire marksmanship range aboard ...

A 19-year-old Waynesboro area Marine who lost his life during the World War II assault on Iwo Jima 80 years ago is being remembered by Stories Behind the Stars. Pfc. Frederick J. Ricard was born on ...

Editor’s note: Feb. 19, 2025, marks the 80th anniversary of the start of the Battle of Iwo Jima. In February 2020, Military Times interviewed Marine Corps veteran and Iwo Jima survivor Don Harris.

The Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group returned to Norfolk on Tuesday after deploying last week. According to USNI News, the three ships in the group turned around to avoid Hurricane Erin. On Tuesday, ...

Eighty years ago this week, U.S. Marine assault boats headed for a desolate pimple of an island, 8 square miles of sand, clay, dust, humpbacked hills, razor-sharp kuna grass, and reeking sulphur, ...

These are the approximate positions of the U.S. Navy’s deployed carrier strike groups and amphibious ready groups throughout ...