The most lethal sniper in U.S. Marine Corps history has passed away. Chuck Mawhinney, 75, died on February 12, 2024, at his home in Baker City, Oregon, according to local reports. Mawhinney holds the record for the most confirmed kills in the history of the Marines — 103, with an additional 216 probable kills. UNCLE […]
Ask any Marine about the service’s greatest snipers, and a flurry of references to the legendary Gunnery Sgt. Carlos Hathcock are sure to flood the conversation. Yet it was another sniper, Charles “Chuck” Mawhinney, who quietly surpassed Hathcock as the Marine Corps’ deadliest. The Lakeview, Oregon, native recorded 103 confirmed kills in Vietnam over the […]
A Fort Worth-based Marine Corps recruiter allegedly sexually assaulted and stalked a 17-year-old recruit and then wrote about their “romantic relationship” in a self-published memoir, according to a federal complaint filed by the recruit. Attorneys for the unnamed recruit filed a Federal Torts Claims Act complaint on Thursday, against the U.S. Marine Corps, the U.S. […]
A U.S. Marine who nearly lost his life in Afghanistan got a once-in-a-lifetime gift from a Detroit automaker whose vehicle helped him escape death once more. Tyler Vargas-Andrews, 26, of Virginia, retired from the Marine Corps after losing his right arm and his left leg during a suicide bomber attack in Kabul. He told the […]
President Biden appeared to bump his head while exiting Marine One after flying back to Washington, D.C., from Delaware on Sunday. Biden, walking with first lady Jill Biden, did not appear to react after bumping into the top frame of Marine One’s exit. The incident comes amid heated debate over Biden’s continued mental fitness for […]
A 27-year-old Emmett man has been identified as one of five U.S. Marine Corps members killed in a helicopter crash in California earlier this week. Capt. Benjamin Moulton was one of three helicopter pilots aboard a Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion that went down during a historic winter storm sometime late Tuesday night. According to a […]
Hong Kong-based marine tech start-up Clearbot is set to launch a new generation of bigger solar-powered autonomous boats to boost its efforts to clean up polluted waters in India. Clearbot’s latest fleet of self-driving electric boats will each have the capacity to pick up around 500kg of plastic waste and other rubbish from the ocean […]
Search-and-rescue crews found a military helicopter on Wednesday morning, several hours after the aircraft was reported missing en route to a Marine air station in San Diego with five Marines aboard. The helicopter was found just after 9 a.m. in Pine Valley, about 40 miles east of San Diego, the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing announced […]
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A Marine Corps helicopter that had been missing with five troops aboard as an historic storm continued drenching California was found Wednesday morning in a mountainous area outside San Diego. The aircraft was located just after 9 a.m. by civil authorities near the mountain community of Pine Valley, about a 45-mile […]
Crews are searching for a US Marine Corps helicopter carrying five troops from Nevada to California that was reported overdue early on Wednesday, a watch commander said. The Marines were flying a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter from Creech Air Force Base in Clark County, Nevada, to Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego. The […]
A 239-foot (72-meter) boat was sunk off the coast of northwest Florida to create a habitat for marine life. Video by Robert Renfrow shows the vessel going down, with dive footage showing the wreck. “The vessel … joins hundreds of other artificial reefs already deployed off the shores of northwest Florida and will serve as […]
The Heritage Foundation this week released its annual report on the “Index of U.S. Military Strength,” which the conservative Washington think tank suggested to be a less-than-ideal time for today’s troops. The report’s findings, which, in essence, rank end-strength against national security threats, paint a picture of an aging and understaffed military. “The Active Component […]