Tag: US Marines

Air Force Special Operations Command has stopped all flights for its entire fleet of CV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft, citing safety issues over the last two months. 

Faced with rampant mold in unbearably hot barracks, airmen at Kunsan Air Base in South Korea came up with one way to grudgingly endure: a raffle that would allow at least one service member to get a new air conditioning unit.

The Syrian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that Damascus “denies it had kidnapped or is holding any American citizen on its territories.”

A former Marine combat veteran who broke into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 avoided jail time and was sentenced to probation Tuesday after testifying against an Army veteran “father figure” who was with him during the riot.

Investigators weren’t able to determine which of the two pilots had control at the time of the crash and said there are “currently no recommendations for disciplinary or punitive action.”

Darrell Youngers served in the Marines from 2008 to 2012, deploying once to Afghanistan, according to court filings.

The Air Force successfully launched a long-range, nuclear-capable missile during a scheduled test out of California on Tuesday, a show of American force as geopolitical tensions rise across the globe. 

A federal judge rejected Tuesday the government’s proposed prison sentences, saying they were too lenient, for former Annapolis-based Navy engineer Jonathan Toebbe and his wife, six months after they pleaded guilty to a conspiracy to sell classified nuclear submarine secrets to a foreign government.

A U.S. Army veteran who falsely claimed PTSD and physical disabilities left him so weak that he couldn’t lift 10 pounds — but who remained a hardcore bodybuilder with the social media posts to prove it — will have to pump iron in federal prison for at least 10 months.

Some of the greatest tough-guy actors in Hollywood history got their start in the Marines.