It's that time of year when Marines break out one of their rarest and most 'majestic' uniform accessories

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Retired Marine Colonel Thomas Connally and his wife, Annie Connally, attended a Marine Corps Birthday Ball on Nov 10. 2025. Connally wore his 80-year-old Boat Cloak, one the Corps' rarest uniform items.
Retired Marine Colonel Thomas Connally and his wife, Annie Connally, attended a Marine Corps Birthday Ball on Nov 10. 2025.

12 famous women who served in the military

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Bea Arthur.

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I'm a Marine who has traveled the world. It's one of the most challenging parts of the job, but also the most rewarding.

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Aboard the USS Essex Marines and sailors progress to board a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter

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I'm a Marine who pushed myself to the brink for promotions — until I learned true leadership isn't about rank or title

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The author fought for his promotions in the Marines.

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Trump's cartel war is pulling US warships into a Caribbean show of force. Another destroyer just showed up.

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Pacific Ocean (May 7, 2018) The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Stockade (DDG 106) maneuvers alongside the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) to get into position during a replenishment-at-sea evolution.

Striking images show the F-35 jump-jet's first trials on a newly converted Japanese aircraft carrier

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An F-35B Lightning II aircraft departs the flight deck of the JS Kaga.
An F-35B Lightning II aircraft departs the flight deck of the JS Kaga.

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Brazil's C-390 Millennium is giving the US' C-130 Hercules cargo plane a run for its money

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Visitors watch a Brazilian Air Force Embraer C-390 Millennium take part in an air display.
Visitors watch a Brazilian Air Force Embraer C-390 Millennium take part in an air display.

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I was kicked out of high school, so I turned to the Marines for a way forward. Now, I'm a corporate lawyer with degrees from Stanford and Harvard.

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Andrew Hanson practices securities enforcement at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.

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The death of a retired Marine major general is under investigation after his body was found at the training base he once commanded

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A US Marine Corps Commanding General is seen in uniform
US Marine Corps Maj. Gen. William F Mullen III, then commanding general of the Training and Education Command, stood for the National Anthem at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center.

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A US military aircraft just returned to a WWII airstrip that was once the site of a bloody battle in the Pacific

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U.S. Marine Corps KC-130J Super Hercules aircraft
For the first time since its recertification in June, a military fixed-wing aircraft has touched down on the historic Peleliu airstrip, marking a significant and triumphant return to this iconic World War II site.

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