Drew F. Lawrence

6 days ago | military.com | Drew F. Lawrence |Konstantin Toropin |Rebecca Kheel

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1 week ago | military.com | Drew F. Lawrence

Two Marines killed in a vehicle crash at the southern U.S. border last month were convoying along a two-lane desert highway in New Mexico when the driver attempted to pass another vehicle and veered off the road to avoid oncoming traffic, according to a local police report. The sheriff's office report said the Marines were following a Border Patrol vehicle with its lights on that was passing a commercial vehicle traveling in the same direction.

1 week ago | military.com | Drew F. Lawrence

After Maj. Zachary Sessa launched his F-35C Lightning II's payload at Houthi weapons storage facilities in Yemen last year, the historical significance of the flight dawned on him. Nearly a year ago, Sessa deployed with the Marine Corps' first F-35C unit aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln bound for the Pacific. But with less than a month out of port, the Pentagon ordered the carrier strike group to the Middle East as Iran-backed Houthis continued to attack shipping vessels in the region.

1 week ago | military.com | Drew F. Lawrence

The Marine Corps is expanding its unmanned aerial vehicle portfolio by fielding competitive drone teams across the fleet over the coming year, one of the service's top officers said Wednesday. The teams will mirror the newly unveiled Marine Corps Attack Drone Team, or MCADT, a specialized unit based out of Quantico, Virginia, that is serving as the ground-level epicenter of the service's urgent UAV needs.

2 weeks ago | military.com | Rebecca Kheel |Drew F. Lawrence

The military services are poised to lose thousands of their civilian employees to the Trump administration's push for them to resign and are bracing for effects on pay processing systems, child care and more, personnel officials for each of the services told lawmakers on Wednesday.