U.S. Marine Requirements Newsletter
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U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Sydney Smalls reaches new heights during meritorious promotion
18 Dec 2025 09:19 GMT
MARINE CORPS AIR STATION IWAKUNI, YAMAGUCHI, JAPAN
12.02.2025
MARINE CORPS AIR STATION IWAKUNI, Japan – Lance Cpl. Sydney Smalls was meritoriously promoted to the rank of Corporal on Dec. 1, for going above and beyond the duties of a Lance Cpl. in her …
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Northrop Grumman Begins Full Production of Mk44S Guns for U.S. Marines’ ACV-30 Amphibious Vehicles
16 Dec 2025 18:55 GMT
Northrop Grumman has entered full-rate production of its Mk44 Stretch Bushmaster Chain Gun for the U.S. Marine Corps’ Amphibious Combat Vehicle-30 variant, the company confirmed on December 16, 2025. The move strengthens Marine littoral forces at a time …
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Japan-based U.S. Marines Test Attack Drones, Hone Autonomous Capabilities
16 Dec 2025 00:36 GMT
U.S. Marines with III Marine Expeditionary Force … the battlespace by 20 kilometers.
U.S. Marines with III Marine Expeditionary Force … we stick to the repair requirements with what we currently have …
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Zero In: a SWAT story
19 Dec 2025 19:09 GMT
SUMMERVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, UNITED STATES
12.19.2025
JOINT BASE CHARLESTON, SC – Everyone has to die – and you never know when that day is going to choose you, were the words said to Matt Wilson on his second day of training as a patrolman before being …
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U.S. Navy fields first Flight III Arleigh Burke warship
19 Dec 2025 15:47 GMT
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USS Jack H. Lucas is the U.S. Navy’s first Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyer and has been designated as the initial operational test and evaluation campaign ship.
The ship introduces the AN/SPY-6(V)1 radar and Aegis Baseline 10 to …
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The $76B Robot War: 5 Stocks Powering the Pentagon’s Autonomous Shift
19 Dec 2025 14:33 GMT
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Dec. 19, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — USA News Group News Commentary – The Department of Defense is accelerating unmanned platform deployment across air, sea, land, space, and subsurface domains as Congress approved $8 billion in …
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Democrat Beau Bayh has raised more than $1 million to challenge Secretary of State Diego Morales
19 Dec 2025 13:40 GMT
The race for the Indiana Secretary of State won’t get fully underway until next year, but donors are already backing candidates challenging incumbent Diego Morales.
Democratic candidate Beau Bayh has raked in at least $1,157,500 in large campaign donations …
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Corps updates physical fitness test standards for combat MOS Marines
19 Dec 2025 00:38 GMT
The U.S. Marine Corps is slated to implement a sex-neutral physical fitness test scoring system for Marines with combat military occupational specialities beginning Jan. 1, 2026, according to a recent service memo.
The physical fitness updates, which also …
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CIMSEC’s Top 10 of 2025
18 Dec 2025 12:36 GMT
… by Bruce Stubbs
“The United States Marine Corps has an outsized effect … rivals when determining the requirements for amphibious ships, … vast array of miscellaneous requirements. The leaders of … by aggressively pruning other requirements, or else these new …
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317th Airlift Wing strengthens joint readiness during Exercise Steel Knight 25
18 Dec 2025 17:58 GMT
CAMP PENDLETON, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES
12.18.2025
317th Airlift Wing strengthens joint readiness during Exercise Steel Knight 25
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DYESS AIR FORCE BASE, Texas -- 317th Airlift Wing participated in Exercise …