Jul 11

LA police teach Marines how to train Afghan police 
    (AP)
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Jun 17

Gates taps surprise choice to head US Marines: reports 
    (AFP)

AFP – Defense Secretary Robert Gates has broken with tradition and picked a former fighter pilot as his surprise choice to lead the US Marine Corps, media reports said Tuesday. Read the rest of this entry »

Jun 15

Surprise name tapped to head US Marines: reports 
    (AFP)

AFP – US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has made a surprise choice for the next leader of the US Marine Corps, picking a career aviator over the two presumed lead candidates for the job, US media reported Tuesday. Read the rest of this entry »

Jun 15

Surprise name tapped to head US Marines: reports 
    (AFP)

AFP – US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has made a surprise choice for the next leader of the US Marine Corps, picking a career aviator over the two presumed lead candidates for the job, US media reported Tuesday. Read the rest of this entry »

Feb 1

US Marines facing a 'different war' in Afghanistan 
    (AFP)

AFP – For the US Marines deployed to the battlefields of southern Afghanistan, life is fragile and thoughts focus on the day they see their families again, but something about this war is different. Read the rest of this entry »

Jan 31

US Marines facing a 'different war' in Afghanistan 
    (AFP)

AFP – For the US Marines deployed to the battlefields of southern Afghanistan, life is fragile and thoughts focus on the day they see their families again, but something about this war is different. Read the rest of this entry »

Jan 24

US Marines leave former Al-Qaeda hotspot in western Iraq 
    (AFP)

AFP – US Marines left the Sunni-dominated western province of Anbar on Saturday after almost seven years of operations in what was once Iraq’s epicentre of Al-Qaeda activity and insurgent violence. Read the rest of this entry »

Jan 23

US Marines leave former Al-Qaeda hotspot in western Iraq 
    (AFP)

AFP – US Marines left the Sunni-dominated western province of Anbar on Saturday after almost seven years of operations in what was once Iraq’s epicentre of Al-Qaeda activity and insurgent violence. Read the rest of this entry »

Dec 2

Marines to hold hearing for officer on Iraq deaths 
    (AP)

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Dec 1

9,000 Marines to Helmand after Obama speech: report 
    (AFP)

AFP – The US military will deploy up to 9,000 Marines to Afghanistan’s Helmand province — doubling US presence there — in the days after President Barack Obama’s war strategy announcement this week, the Washington Post said Saturday. Read the rest of this entry »

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