It's only been eight days since the Pentagon announced it would lift its longtime ban on women in combat, and the objections just keep on coming.
A U.S. Marine imprisoned in Mexico for bringing a banned shotgun into the country will be released from custody today, reports Fox News, which championed his cause back home.
Marines who urinated on Afghan corpses and soldiers who burned Korans won't do time or get discharged, but they will probably still lose their jobs after receiving administrative punishments on Monday.
White supremacists aren't the type of people you want to train to be unstoppable fighting machines, but that doesn't mean they're not signing up for the call of duty.
In in the next day scramble to figure out what exactly caused two Marine helicopters to collide on the California-Arizona border, at least one theory has emerged, and it involves dust.
If the latest statements from U.S. military men are any indication, the Pentagon is pretty worried that that awful video of Marines peeing on killed Taliban Afghans is not a fake.
The U.S. Marine Corps said it's investigating a horrible video that shows Marines urinating on dead bodies.
Gen. James F. Amos, the head of the U.S. Marines who wasn't too thrilled with Don't Ask Don't Tell being repealed in September, is thrilled today with how the lift on the ban of gays in the military has gone so far, reports the AP.
All branches of the military have their quirks as far as dress goes
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