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

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 ...

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

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, ...

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, ...

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