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Lt. Gen. Robert Neller

Robert Neller says Russia is a threat, but it doesn’t want to fight U.S.

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Thomas J. Sullivan, 40, of Springfield, Massachusetts, was killed in an apparent terror attack on Thursday, July, 16, 2015, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Facebook photo.

Skip Wells, Thomas Sullivan Marines killed in Chattanooga shootings

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Gen. Joseph Dunford is under scrutiny to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. (Associated Press)

Joseph Dunford, Joint Chiefs of Staff nominee, grilled on Obama Islamic State strategy

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

As female recruits train at Parris Island, S.C., Brig Gen. Loretta Reynolds, the first female general in charge at the Marine Corps depot, says she is confident that they would do well in combat. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Navy, Marine Corps triple maternity leave to better retain women

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Lt. Gen. Robert Neller

Robert Neller tapped to be Marine Corps commandant

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

U.S. Marines with Fox Company, Battalion Landing Team 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines (BLT 2/1), 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), conduct a Table 3 combat marksmanship course of fire as a part of sustainment training on the flight deck of the USS San Diego (LPD 22), Oct. 1. The 11th MEU is deployed with the Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group as a theater reserve and crisis response force throughout U.S. Central Command and the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility. (U.S. Marine Corps photos by Gunnery Sgt. Rome M. Lazarus/ Released) ** FILE **

Marines may hitch deployment rides on foreign ships due to U.S. vessel shortage

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

An Air Force hangar is filled with fire suppression foam system sprays during a test in Guam. (Image: U.S. Air Force) ** FILE **

Marine allegedly filled entire Air Force hangar in Japan with fire suppression foam

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

This Nov. 19, 2004, file photo shows Rosa Maria Peralta sitting on her son's bed in his bedroom ash she reflects back on her memories with her son, Marine Sgt. Rafael Peralta, in San Diego, Calif. (Nelvin Cepeda/U-T San Diego via AP, File)

California family to accept Navy Cross after fight for Medal of Honor

By Julie Watson - Associated Press

Former Sen. Bob Dole greeted veteran Philip Grayson of Miami at the National World War II Memorial. Mr. Dole is there nearly every Saturday. (Dave Boyer/The Washington Times)

World War II veterans see ‘shame’ in VA scandals

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Ashley’s War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefi

By Gary Anderson

Debris rises as a Marine Corps Osprey aircraft makes a hard landing on Bellows Air Force Station near Waimanalo, Hawaii on Sunday. (Associated Press)

Marine dead, 21 injured in Osprey hard landing at Bellows Air Force Station in Hawaii

Associated Press

The National Women's Law Center is taking the U.S. military culture to task for being slow to integrate women into combat positions, but the pool of qualified females may in fact be limited. (Associated Press)

Women in combat: Test failures raise questions about how many can succeed

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Days of Rage: America’s Radical Underground, the FBI and the Forgotten Age of Revoluti

By Gary Anderson

The prototype dress uniform for women has the same high collar as the men's. (Courtesy of the U.S. Navy)

The Navy’s new female uniforms draw fire at the Academy: ‘Why are women made to look like men?’

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

One challenge that Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford will face this fall as the new Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman will be the social changes sweeping the armed forces. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Joseph Dunford, new Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, to make call on women in combat

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford, Jr. listens as President Barack Obama announces that he will nominate Dunford as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Tuesday, May 5, 2015, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. Obama chose the widely respected, combat-hardened commander who led the Afghanistan war coalition during a key transitional period during 2013-2014 to succeed Army Gen. Martin Dempsey. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Joseph F. Dunford nominated as Joint Chiefs chairman

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Jonathan Jarvis, director of the National Park Service, right, points out some items that are planned for improvement at the U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial, in Arlington, Va., Wednesday, April 29, 2015, with David Rubenstein, left, a businessman and philanthropist whose gift of $5.37 million will go toward a newly announced restoration project at the memorial, the sculpture of which was inspired by the U.S. battle at Iwo Jima. The famous bronze U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial overlooking Washington that depicts Marines raising the American flag at Iwo Jima during World War II has begun turning green with age but now will be restored with a $5.37 million gift. Philanthropist David Rubenstein announced Wednesday that he will give the National Park Foundation the funds needed to wash, wax and restore the memorial and its plaza and landscaping. Improvements are also planned for the memorial's signage and access for handicapped visitors. The project will also restore the memorial's engravings to be much brighter. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Marine Corps Memorial to be restored after $5.4M donation

By BRETT ZONGKER - Associated Press

A female member of the U.S. armed forces. (U.S. Marine Corps photo)

Marine Corps weighs lower standards for women after none pass Infantry Officer Course

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Camouflage by W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. (Image: Gore)

Marine Corps tests new camouflage to cloak against thermal sensors

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

U.S. Army Pfc. Amy Alexanders carries a 103-pound barrel to a Bradley Fighting Vehicle during a physical demands study, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014, in Ft. Stewart, Ga. The Army is conducting a study that will determine how all soldiers, including women, for the first time, will be deemed fit to join its fighting units from infantry platoons to tank crews. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton)

WESLEY PRUDEN: Women not combat ready for U.S. military

By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times