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FILE - A United States Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II takes part in an aerial display during the Singapore Airshow 2022 at Changi Exhibition Centre in Singapore, Feb. 15, 2022. A Marine Corps pilot safely ejected from a fighter jet over South Carolina and the search for his missing aircraft was focused on two lakes near North Charleston. Military officials say the pilot parachuted safely into a North Charleston neighborhood Sunday Sept. 17, 2023. He was taken to a hospital and was in stable condition. The pilot's name has not been released. A search for the missing F-35 was focused on Lake Moultrie and Lake Marion, which are north of North Charleston. (AP Photo/Suhaimi Abdullah file)

Marine Corps orders a two-day aviator stand-down as questions mount over missing F-35 stealth jet

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Bremerton assistant football coach Joe Kennedy, at center in blue, is surrounded by Centralia High School football players after they took a knee and prayed with him on the field after the team's game against Bremerton on Oct. 16, 2015, in Bremerton, Wash. Years after Kennedy left the football team over objections to his post-game praying on the field, he has returned to the gridiron thanks to a Supreme Court decision, and his first game back is Friday, Sept. 1, 2023. (Meegan M. Reid/Kitsap Sun via AP, File)

Praying high school coach returns to gridiron Friday night, will take a knee after the game

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

Alicia Lopez, mother of Marine Corps Cpl. Hunter Lopez, an Abbey Gate Gold Star family member, reaches to touch the photograph of her son, after a House Foreign Affairs Committee roundtable, on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023 in Washington. Thirteen U.S. service members were killed, and 45 more wounded, in the terrorist attack at the Hamid Karzai International Airport's Abbey Gate on Aug. 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Gold Star families seek justice, closure; haunting questions linger after airport terror attack

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

This May 14, 2020, photo provided by the U.S. Marine Corps shows the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego. A military jet crashed near the base and a search-and-rescue operation was underway, the U.S. Marine Corps said in a statement early Friday, Aug. 25, 2023. The F/A-18 went down on Thursday, Aug. 24, in the vicinity of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, according to a base press release. (Lance Cpl. Julian Elliott-Drouin/U.S. Marine Corps via AP)

Military identifies Marine Corps pilot killed in jet crash near San Diego base

Associated Press

A U.S. Marine Corps recruit demonstrates to a group of recruits how to exit a safety net after failing an obstacle during training at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Wednesday, June 28, 2023, in Parris Island, S.C. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton)

Marine trainee dies during live-fire infantry training at Camp Pendleton in California

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

U.S. Marine Corps Gen. David Berger, left, holds the battle colors during a relinquishment of office ceremony, Monday, July 10, 2023, at the Marine Barracks in Washington. Berger took over at the 38th commandant in July 2019, and is required to leave the job after four years. Gen. Eric Smith, currently the assistant commandant, has been nominated to be the next leader, but will serve in an acting capacity because he hasn't been confirmed by the Senate. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, center right, looks on. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Republican’s hold on nominations leaves Marines without confirmed leader for 1st time in 100 years

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

In this June 3, 2020, photo, members of the District of Columbia Army National Guard stand guard at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington securing the area as protests continue following the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) **FILE**

As U.S. military recruiting crisis worsens, armed forces find competition around every corner

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Marine Gen. Eric Smith, testifies during the Senate Armed Services hearing on his nomination to lead the U.S. Marine Corps, Tuesday, June 13, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Marine Corps commandant nominee lays out case for more ships amid transition

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Marine Corps plan was vetted

Illustration on saving the Marine Corps by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Congress must save Marine Corps: Gen. Berger’s direction shift dangerous for our security

By Newt Gingrich

Members of the Naval Academy's class of 2023 toss their caps in the air at the conclusion of the U.S. Naval Academy's graduation and commissioning ceremony at the Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium on Friday, May 26, 2023 in Annapolis, Md. (Jerry Jackson /The Baltimore Sun via AP)

Defense secretary tells Navy graduates they are ready to serve

By Brian Witte - Associated Press

In this Feb. 21, 2013, photo, female recruits stand at the Marine Corps Training Depot on Parris Island, S.C. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith) **FILE**

Marine Corps to end single-sex recruit training

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

The Pentagon is seen in this aerial view made through an airplane window in Washington, Jan. 26, 2020. U.S. officials tell The Associated Press the number of reported sexual assaults across the military inched up by about 1% last year, as a sharp decline in Army numbers offset large increases in the other three services. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Military sex assault reports rise, even as Army numbers fall

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Sukhbir Singh Toor (left), and recruits Aekash Singh (center), and Jaskirat Singh (right) at the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in October when their appeal was heard. (Credit: Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, used with permission.)

Judge tells Marine Corps Sikh recruit can keep his hair, beard and turban through boot camp

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

Under new guidance, U.S. special operations fighters will be taking a larger role in cyberwarfare, information and "influence" operations. (Associated Press/File)

Pentagon’s cyberwarfare troops get the training, then leave, asserts GAO report

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Sukhbir Singh Toor (left), and recruits Aekash Singh (center), and Jaskirat Singh (right) at the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in October when their appeal was heard. (Credit: Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, used with permission.)

Court rules Marine Corps must admit Sikh members recruits with faith-required hair, beards

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 21, 2016 file photo, Eric Fanning testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington before the Senate Armed Services Committee. The committee has confirmed Fanning, the first openly gay leader of a U.S. military service. By voice vote Thursday, March 10, 2016, committee members approved the nomination of Fanning to be Army secretary. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Religious accommodations for Sikhs in Marine Corps backed by Muslim, Jewish groups

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

(Associated Press)

Sikhs’ appeal to start boot camp with beards, long hair, turbans gains sympathy at D.C. hearing

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

U.S. Marine Staff Sgt. Thomas R. Sterett takes accountability of Marines boarding U.S. Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawks during Black Hawk integration training as part of exercise Fuji Viper 20-1 on Camp Fuji, Japan, Oct. 28, 2019. Fuji Viper is a regularly scheduled training evolution for infantry units assigned to 3rd Marine Division as part of the unit deployment program. The training allows units to maintain their lethality and proficiency in infantry and combined arms tactics. Sterett is assigned to 4th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, and a native of Town Falls, Idaho. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Timothy Hernandez)

Marines turn to scanners to help track body fat of the few and the proud

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Amphibious Assault Vehicles storm Red Beach during exercises at Camp Pendleton, Calif., June 2, 2010. The U.S. Marine Corps will keep its new amphibious combat vehicle - a kind of seafaring tank - out of the water while it investigates why two of the vehicles ran into troubles off the Southern California coast this week amid high surf, military officials said Wednesday, July 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi, File)

Troop carrier rollover in high surf causes Marines to pause amphibious waterborne operations

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times