U.S. Marines with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 214, Marine Aircraft Group 12, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing from Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona loaded ordnance onto F-35 Lighting II aircraft on Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, March 25, 2025. This exercise marked the first time VMFA-214 loaded live ordnance on aircraft since their arrival to MCAS Iwakuni under the Unit Deployment Program, which allows units based in the U.S. operational experience in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Eliza Fremont)
Most Marines remember the three months spent in recruit training. For many, drill instructors are the reason it's so memorable. As if they were cartoon characters, drill instructors would scream in weird voices with veins popping out of their necks.
Pilots with the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force Fleet Air Wing 31 took to the sky in celebration of a new year over Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni Jan. 7.
Some people anxiously sat down at the recruiting office in their local strip mall where there were large amounts of bodies walking in out of that place to listen to the person across the desk from them with a very peculiar haircut and starch ironed shirt trying to recruit them into the military.
On Sept. 11, 2001, 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda carried out a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks on the United States.
In today’s society, technology plays a bigger role than human interaction. People can do simple day-to-day tasks in the palm of their hand, but how many of those are really a necessity?
