Lt. Gen. James Bierman, commanding general of III Marine Expeditionary Force, passes on a noncommissioned officer sword to Sgt. Maj. Joy Kitashima (left), at a relief and appointment ceremony on ...

Sgt. Maj. Joy Kitashima, now the senior enlisted leader of the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing, was selected on Nov. 22 to be the sergeant major of III Marine Expeditionary Force, the Pacific-focused ...

Sgt. Maj. Joy Kitashima will become the first female Marine to fill the senior enlisted role in a Marine expeditionary force when she takes up her new responsibilities next year at Camp Courtney ...

U.S.-Australian bilateral exercise Talisman Sabre 2025 kicked off with more than 35,000 personnel from 19 nations taking part ...

The U.S. plans to fund and build a facility capable of hosting watercraft and assault boats on the western coast of Palawan ...

Two Marine officers believe the Army's loss could be the Marine Corps' gain by adopting the relatively light but heavily ...

The III Marine Expeditionary Force band drum major salutes during a change-of-command ceremony at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Okinawa, Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021. (Matthew M. Burke/Stars and Stripes) ...

The Marine Corps is certain to face first-class combined arms units in the future, yet the structure and equipping of Marine Expeditionary Forces in accordance with Force Design 2030 will ...

To get that kind of force, though, the Marine Corps will need to pay. Lance corporals at the E-3 rank pocket about $2,300 a month, while a staff sergeant in the E-6 paygrade takes home roughly $3,300.

This is an increase from the Marine Corps' last force structure review in 2010, which found the ideal size for the force was 186,800. The service was then planning a drawdown from a wartime peak ...

After decades of sustained land operations, the U.S. Marine Corps is looking back out to sea, embracing its roots as a naval expeditionary force.

One role is a cyberspace planner, which exists at various echelons and commands, such as the Marine Corps Force level and the Marine Corps Expeditionary Unit. U.S. Marines assigned to the Cyber ...