Marine Corps

The assistant commandant of the Marine Corps has tested positive for the coronavirus, days after he and members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff were in a Pentagon meeting with a Coast Guard leader who was infected with the virus

The U.S. Marine Corps says its new Amphibious Combat Vehicle has completed testing and will begin the process to replace the decades-old Amphibious Assault Vehicle ahead of schedule beginning next week.

USMC’s new Amphibious Combat Vehicle has completed testing and will begin replacing the decades-old Amphibious Assault Vehicle. NBC 7’s Bridget Naso has more.

The identities of eight of the troops presumed dead, and one Marine who was killed, after a landing craft sank off the Southern California coast during a training exercise have been released by officials. Lance Cpl. Guillermo S. Perez, 19, of New Braunfels, Texas, was pronounced dead at the scene before being transported by helicopter to Scripps Memorial Hospital in…

The Marine Corps says eight troops are presumed dead after their landing craft sank off the Southern California coast during a training exercise

The U.S. military has released the names of the personnel who is presumed dead after they went missing during a training exercise.

NBC 7’s Bridget Naso spoke with a relative of one of the missing Marines.

The Marine Corps announced it is calling off their search for the eight missing marines and sailor who went missing off the coast during a training exercise. They are presumed dead.

NBC 7’s Bridget Naso has the latest details on the search and rescue of eight Marines and one sailor after a watercraft “mishap”

The U.S. Marine Corps says a Marine suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound ending a two-hour standoff with military police on a California Marine Corps base

US service members are seeing a spike in coronavirus cases, according to the latest numbers from the Department of Defense. The Assistant Defense Secretary for Health Affairs, Dr. Jonathan Woodson, said COVID-19 spikes in the military are mirroring the spikes seen among civilians in Florida, Texas, and parts of California. Military COVID-19 cases rose in June, with troops seeing a…

The Assistant Defense Secretary for Health Affairs, Dr. Jonathan Woodson, said COVID-19 spikes in the military are mirroring the spikes seen among civilians in Florida, Texas and parts of California, reports NBC 7’s Niala Charles.

Training has been halted for one company of U.S. Marine recruits in San Diego due to an outbreak of the novel coronavirus. Meanwhile, hundreds of other recruits continue to train on base, wearing face masks and social distancing.

Two hundred recruits from MCRD’s Bravo Company have been quarantined, Marine officials told NBC 7 military reporter Bridget Naso, adding that many of them are asymptomatic but none have required hospitalization.

It wasn’t supposed to happen like this. If anything, Robert Mendoza should’ve died in Iraq, or Afghanistan, or even on a training mission while jumping from an aircraft, but instead, an invisible enemy took his body hostage over Easter weekend and showed no remorse. Mendoza, 43, died Monday inside the Tri-City Medical Center Intensive Care Unit after just a...

NBC 7’s Steven Luke has more from the veteran’s family.

Despite adjustments made at Marine Corps Recruit Depot (MCRD) San Diego weeks ago to protect against the new coronavirus, a number of recruits have tested positive at the base, the U.S. Marine Corps confirmed.

The Marines are in Bravo Company and will remain in quarantine on base for 14 days, reports NBC 7’s Priya Sridhar.