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WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the creation of a new Barracks Task Force aimed at tackling one of the military’s longest-running quality-of-life problems: substandard troop housing. In a memorandum dated October 6, Hegseth directed the Under Secretary of War for Acquisition and Sustainment (USW[A&S]) to form the task force and appoint the…
HAVELOCK, N.C. — A 19-year-old U.S. Marine stationed at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point has been arrested and charged with felony animal cruelty after police say he brutally killed his 8-month-old Labrador retriever mix. According to the Havelock Police Department, Lance Corporal Taylor Heinrich, of Havelock, was taken into custody after officers and Havelock…
Staff Sgt. Alonzo Alcantara, a Marine small arms repair technician and former recruiter, has been sentenced to 26 years in military prison for killing his wife, Ruby Tenorio Alcantara, at their home on Marine Corps Base Hawaii in September 2024. Alcantara pleaded guilty under a deal that reduced a potential life sentence, admitting he used…
QUANTICO, VA — Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth addressed hundreds of the nation’s top generals and admirals at the Marine Corps Museum last week, delivering a blunt and sweeping directive: the U.S. military will abandon policies associated with diversity, inclusion, and progressive cultural norms in favor of a renewed focus on discipline, warfighting, and traditional…
It sounds like a fantasy: anonymous, no-strings-attached sex offered freely to American service members, often with promises of secrecy and zero expectation of reciprocation. But what if it’s not a fantasy at all? What if it’s a trap? In an age where smartphones and social media dominate daily life, U.S. military personnel have become increasingly…
GRAND BLANC TOWNSHIP, MI — A Sunday morning worship service at a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc Township, Michigan, turned into a scene of chaos and tragedy when a former U.S. Marine drove his vehicle into the chapel, opened fire with an assault rifle, and set the building on fire—killing…
Authorities have identified the man accused of opening fire at a crowded waterfront restaurant in Southport, North Carolina, as a U.S. Marine Corps veteran who legally changed his name several years ago. The Shooting On Saturday night, diners at the American Fish Company restaurant in the Southport Yacht Basin were met with sudden gunfire. Police…
The U.S. Army’s elite 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment—better known as the “Night Stalkers”—lost four of its own during a nighttime training flight last week. Among the fallen: Chief Warrant Officer 3 Andrew Kraus, a decorated pilot, Marine veteran, husband, father of two, and the son of Mission BBQ co-founder Bill Kraus. The MH-60 Black…
Three active-duty U.S. military personnel are under scrutiny after publicly mocking, celebrating, or implicitly justifying the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The backlash has grown loud enough to prompt a direct response from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who called the conduct “completely unacceptable.” Marine Officer Recruiter Toasts Kirk’s Death With Beer Emojis Captain…
Near the windswept desert of Twentynine Palms, California — home to one of the largest Marine Corps bases in the world — a military couple is attracting national attention. But it’s not for valor, deployment stories, or veteran entrepreneurship. It’s for their involvement in a controversial and highly explicit online venture that’s challenging the boundaries…