Do you know the difference between Marine Recon and Force Recon? For starters, Reconnaissance Marines are the tip of the spear in the United States Marine Corps. Within their community are two ...

Marine leaders will decide this year whether to outfit each of their divisions with a maritime reconnaissance company and brand new medium-sized ships to scope out the littorals. Lt. Col. Brian ...

The Marine Corps has launched a training program to rapidly increase the number of small unmanned aircraft system operators ...

In April 1967, Marine 2nd Lt. James Capers Jr. ignored his numerous bullet and shrapnel wounds to lead his nine-man team from 3rd Force Reconnaissance Company against an enemy ambush in South Vietnam.

Manhattan, Kansas, native Gunnar A. Naughton, then a team member with the Chemical Biological Incident Response Force, U.S. Marine Forces Command, is meritoriously promoted the rank of corporal in ...

Marines with Battalion Landing Team 3/5, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), conduct communication tests during a light armored reconnaissance raid rehearsal at Camp Schwab, Okinawa, Japan, June 20, ...

CAMP PENDLETON SOUTH, Calif. — Highly trained U.S. Marines completed an important mission at Camp Pendleton on Friday. Reconnaissance Marines competed in the 14th annual Recon Challenge that honors ...

The United States Marine Corps is on the hunt for a new vehicle to carry groups of reconnaissance Marines around the battlefield. The current backbone of Marine armored reconnaissance, the Light ...

The backbone of the Marine Corps’ reconnaissance, the Light Armored Reconnaissance vehicle, is not a modern vehicle. Introduced into Marine Corps service in the early 1980s, the platform sports a 25mm ...

If you ever wondered how one-time Trump staffer Anthony Scaramucci, Olympic gymnast Nastia Liukin or NFL veteran Danny Amendola would handle the physical and mental privations of military survival ...

The Marine Corps is exploring a variant of the amphibious combat vehicle for its future reconnaissance battalions with an equipment package containing drones and communication systems, and has asked ...

A Navy Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System launcher deploys into position aboard Pacific Missile Range Facility Barking Sands, Hawaii, Aug. 16, 2021. The NMESIS and its Naval Strike Missiles ...