Marine Corps News

A former 3rd Infantry Division soldier severely wounded in Iraq is gearing up to compete in the Paralympic Games that open in Beijing in September.

Coalition and Afghan forces killed several armed militants and destroyed a weapons cache in operations this week in Afghanistan, military officials said.

The Pentagon is the most obvious symbol of the world's most powerful military and the home of the National Military Command Center. Soon it will be a tourist destination.

In an effort to bolster the Afghan National Police, U.S. forces in southern Afghanistan recruited and sent a record 500 Afghan citizens to eight weeks of focused district development training, a military official said.

Since March 2008, the Afghan National Army has recruited more than 9,000 soldiers. But retaining those troops to eventually reach the force's 80,000-soldier end strength goal remains a challenge.

Coalition and Iraqi forces caught dozens of suspects and seized weapons caches in Iraq over the past three days, military officials said

With the gift of an American flag to this city's lord mayor, U.S. Army Garrison Darmstadt officially ended six decades of service during its inactivation ceremony.

The idea of starting a letter-writing campaign to reach all troops in Iraq and Afghanistan may seem a little far-fetched for the average person, but Cody Anderson is by no means "average."

On the wall of the operations cell for Task Force Vigilant, a painting depicts a lion head with a banner reading, "Vigilance is Excellence."

The vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has returned to Washington after a three-day visit with British military counterparts that included a briefing on U.S.-UK collaborative research to defeat improvised explosive devices.

The Defense Department has issued a draft request for proposals to the competitors in the Air Force's $35 billion program to acquire new aerial refueling tanker aircraft.

A combination of factors -- better training, community support and increased troops -- has brought roadside bomb attacks in Iraq to record-low levels, a senior U.S. military officer said.

As the Defense Department commemorated 60 years of integration, President Harry S. Truman was remembered for making tough choices: polls taken before the 1948 presidential election showed that 82 percent of Americans opposed his integration plans.

A new center will combine Defense counterintelligence and human intelligence efforts at the national level, Defense Intelligence Agency officials said.

For the eleventh straight week, violence in Iraq continues at its lowest levels in four years, despite ongoing threats from al-Qaida in Iraq and Iranian-backed militants, a coalition general said.

Today's National Guard reflects the diversity of the communities its members serve and live in, the National Guard Bureau's equal opportunity and civil rights director said.

Marking the 60th anniversary of the integration of the armed services is a reminder of "how far we've come toward living up to our founding ideals and how far we still have to go," Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said.

Faced with an evolving and borderless technological landscape, the U.S. military is reaching out to government, academia and industry for help in protecting the nation's cyber infrastructure.

Coalition and Iraqi forces caught 17 suspects and seized scores of weapons during operations in Iraq, military officials said.

Wounded warriors transitioning back into civilian life can continue serving their country through a program that helps them settle back into their communities as leaders.