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Runners make their way past the U.S. Capitol during the annual Marine Corps Marathon in Washington on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times) **FILE**

Marine Corps Marathon, other races return live later this year

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Trump supporters try to break through a police barrier, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, at the Capitol in Washington. As Congress prepares to affirm President-elect Joe Biden's victory, thousands of people have gathered to show their support for President Donald Trump and his claims of election fraud. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) **FILE**

Christopher Warnagiris charged with assaulting police officer during Jan. 6 Capitol riot

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

A soldier holds a Taiwan national flag during a military exercise in Hsinchu County, northern Taiwan, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying) **FILE**

Marine Corps adviser’s anti-Taiwan piece in Chinese propaganda outlet sparks outrage

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

“This is not an isolated incident. Right now, a cascading series of failures within the military is causing the U.S. to lose more service members in preventable training accidents than in combat,” said Rep. John Garamendi, chairman of the House Armed Services subcommittee on Readiness, who convened Monday’s hearing. (Associated Press)

House lawmakers press for answers after deadly Marines training accident

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

FILE - In this July, 2, 2003., file photo, a U.S. Marine Corps amphibious assault vehicle drives past a marked endangered species area as a black-necked Stilt, flies overhead at Red Beach on Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base, Calif. Marines are training in seafaring tanks for the first time since nine men died when when one of the troop carriers sank off the Southern California coast during an exercise on July 30, 2020. The Orange County Register reports Marines from Camp Pendleton resumed exercises in water recovery and troop transfers, without troops in early April 2021. The Marine Corps has said that last year's accident was caused by inadequate training, shabby maintenance and poor judgment by commanders. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy, File)

Marine inspector general suspended amid tank sinking probe

Associated Press

In this Feb. 22, 2021, photo, a woman wearing a face mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus sits near a screen showing China and U.S. flags as she listens to a speech by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the Lanting Forum on bringing China-U.S. relations back to the right track, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs office in Beijing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) ** FILE **

Marine commandant reveals new mission preparing for China conflict

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Marines open another probe into sunken tank blamed on errors

By JULIE WATSON - Associated Press

New Marine Corps manual offers template for reimagined force

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Aug. 12, 2020, file photo, provided by the U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Marines and sailors carry a casket inside a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, in Calif., Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020. The remains included seven Marines and a sailor, who died after a seafaring tank sank off the coast of Southern California last month, were transferred to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware for burial preparations. The U.S. Marine Corps is expected to release results of its investigation into a seafaring tank that sunk off San Diego's coast last summer, killing eight Marines and one sailor. (Lance Cpl. Brendan Mullin/U.S. Marine Corps via AP, File)

Human errors, mechanical woes caused Marine tank sinking

By JULIE WATSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, Aug. 3, 2020, file photo, provided by the U.S. Navy, Undersea Rescue Command deploys the Sibitzky Remotely Operated Vehicle is lowered in the recover the bodies of nine people killed when a Marine landing craft sank in hundreds of feet of water on July 30, 2020, off the Southern California coast. A U.S. Marine Corps commander was fired Tuesday, March 23, 2021, following an investigation into the sinking of the amphibious assault vehicle that killed nine service members last year. (Lt. Curtis Khol/U.S. Navy via AP, File)

Marine commander fired after deadly assault vehicle accident

Associated Press

Former San Clemente Mayor Wayne Eggleston lowers the U.S. flag to half-staff at Park Semper Fi in San Clemente, Calif., on Friday, July 31, 2020. Officials say a military seafaring assault vehicle with 15 Marines and a Navy sailor aboard sank off the coast of Southern California, leaving one of the Marines dead and eight missing. A Marine Corps spokesman says they were traveling in the amphibious assault vehicle from the shores of San Clemente Island to a Navy ship Thursday evening when they reported that the vehicle was taking on water. (Paul Bersebach/The Orange County Register via AP)

Marine commander fired in wake of fatal training incident off the California coast

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

FILE - In this May 21, 2015 photo, U.S. Marines work atop an F/A-18 at the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group boneyard in Tucson, Ariz. The people who work here generally refer to the place by its acronym, or &quot;A-marg&quot; as they call it. Most everyone else — here and around the globe — knows it as the airplane graveyard, or simply the boneyard. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Marine Corps bids farewell to the F/A-18 Hornet

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Missing explosives from Marine base under investigation

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

U.S. Marines from the 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment run through a street Wednesday, April 19, 2006, in Ramadi, 115 km (70 miles) west of Baghdad. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Marine Corps shuts down famed 8th Marine Regiment

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

A rendering of the autonomous vessel being developed by shipbuilder Metal Shark as part of the US Marine Corps' new LRUSV system. (Metal Shark via GlobeNewswire)

Marine Corps moves ahead with ‘kamikaze drone’ project

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Marine recruits at Parris Island Recruit Depot, S.C., on May 27, 2020 (AP Photo/Lolita Baldor) **FILE**

South Carolina representatives introduce bill to prevent Parris Island closure

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

The Marine Corps is on a path toward sweeping changes. Proposals to remake the Corps into a leaner, more efficient fighting force include giving up all of its tanks, dramatically remaking its artillery batteries and reducing the number of active-duty service members. (U.S. Marine Corps photograph)

Marine Corps embraces Gen. David Berger reforms due to budget declines

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 15, 2018, file photo, U.S. Marines watch during the change of command ceremony at Task Force Southwest military field in Shorab military camp of Helmand province, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini, File)

Marine Corps begins fielding rifle suppressors to infantry units

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Marines from the Amphibious Combat Vehicle new equipment training team complete an operator course in the vehicle in February 2019. Managed by Program Executive Officer Land Systems, the ACV was approved for Initial Operational Capability on Nov. 13 and for Full-Rate Production on Dec. 8 (U.S. Marine Corps photo and caption by Ashley Calingo)

Marine Corps fields new amphibious combat vehicle, first since 1972

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times