Tag: Marine Corps

Japan's Coast Guard ship, top, and U.S. military plane are seen at sea off Kochi, southwestern Japan, during a search and rescue operation for missing crew members of a U.S. Marine refueling plane and fighter jet. The U.S. Marine Corps have declared that five crewmembers dead after their aircraft crashed last week off Japanâs southern coast and that their search has ended.

‘It’s a big ocean’: Navy in race against time to recover bodies of Marines inside downed plane off Japan

Jamie McIntyre · December 14, 2018 7:57 pm

Vice President Mike Pence, right, listens to Alan Norman, left, the Lockheed Martin F-35 Test Pilot, as he looks at the cockpit of a F-35 fighter jet, while touring the "Made in America" product showcase, featuring items created in each of the U.S. 50 states, at the White House in Washington, Monday, July 23, 2018. With Pence are Energy Secretary Rick Perry, second from the left, and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, second from the right.

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Mattis goal to make 80 percent of military planes combat-ready tough to achieve, GAO tells Congress

Jamie McIntyre · December 12, 2018 4:50 pm

First lady Melania Trump speaks with children during a Toys for Tots event at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in Washington, D.C.

Melania Trump a ‘champ’ in US Marine Corps Reserve toy drive

Diana Stancy Correll · December 11, 2018 10:34 pm

The U.S. military has called off a search for other crew members involved in a crash between an F/A-18 Hornet and a Marine Corps KC-130 refueling aircraft. (Marine photo)

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Missing Marine crew declared dead

Jamie McIntyre · December 11, 2018 12:21 pm

In this Dec. 6, 2018, aerial photo, a Japan coast guard ship and U.S. military plane are seen at sea off Kochi, Japan, during the search-and-rescue operation for missing crew members after a U.S. Marine plane and fighter jet crashed.

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Marine Corps identifies captain killed in midair collision over Japan

Travis J. Tritten · December 7, 2018 3:21 pm

Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer attends a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

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Fingers crossed: Navy secretary hopes Trump reverses course on 5 percent budget cut proposal

Jamie McIntyre · December 6, 2018 7:12 pm

In this Oct. 13, 2016, photo provided by U.S. Marine Corps, two F/A-18D Hornets with Marine All-Weather Fighter Attack Squadron 533 approach a KC-130J with Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 352 during a Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force - Crisis Response - Central Command aerial refueling exercise in undisclosed location. On Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018, two American warplanes crashed into the Pacific Ocean off Japan's southwestern coast after a midair collision, and rescuers found one of the seven crew members in stable condition while searching for the others, officials said. The U.S. Marine Corps said that the crash involved an F/A-18 fighter jet and a KC-130 refueling aircraft during regular training after the planes took off from their base in Iwakuni, near Hiroshima in western Japan.

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Marine Corps: One dead, five missing after mid-air collision between jet and tanker off Japan

Diana Stancy Correll · December 6, 2018 3:53 pm

In this July 10, 2017 file photograph, smoke rises in the air after a KC-130T military transport plane crashed into a field near Itta Bena, Miss.

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Military investigators fault poor maintenance in 2017 crash

Diana Stancy Correll · December 6, 2018 12:47 am

An F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet lands on the deck of the U.S. Navy USS Ronald Reagan in the South China Sea, Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2018.

One rescued after US Marine aircraft involved in ‘mishap’

Diana Stancy Correll · December 5, 2018 10:27 pm

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Two Marines will continue flying after drawing penis-shaped flight pattern

Travis J. Tritten · December 5, 2018 3:57 pm

Marine Lt. Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., director, Joint Staff, pauses while speaking during a media availability at the Pentagon, Saturday, April 14, 2018, in Washington.

Central Command nominee says Afghanistan war still ‘largely stalemated”

Jamie McIntyre · December 4, 2018 4:12 pm

George H.W. Bush's casket arrives at the Capitol: Watch

Susan Ferrechio · December 3, 2018 10:01 pm