After nearly eighty years of continuous service, in March 2020 the Marine Corps announced it planned to retire its three remaining tank battalions in a bid to re-model the force for a great-power ...

The 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit prepares to debark the amphibious transport dock ship USS Green Bay in 1970s-era Assault Amphibious Vehicles.Photo: Flickr. Everything old is new again for the U.S.

Marines' M1A1 Abrams tanks are about to get even more awesome. The improvements to 400 tanks will include a button that will allow to the tank commander to move the main gun on a target being tracked ...

The US Marine Corps is the tip of America’s spear—a fast-moving, flexible, forward operating force geared to take and hold territory quickly and efficiently. This flexibility is exemplified in the ...

The Marine Corps is in the process of getting rid of its tanks in preparation for possible island-hopping missions in the Pacific, but the move could lead to a bitter inter-service divide if the Army ...

Tanks, the armored cavalry — it's a division commonly associated with the army, but that wasn't the only branch of the armed forces to use tanks. The United States Marine Corps has worked alongside ...

At the end of August, Marine tankers gathered at Camp Pendleton for this year's TIGERCOMP. Excluding a six-year lull in the 2000s, TIGERCOMP has been the Marine Corps tank gunnery competition since ...

The Marine Corps has said goodbye to its tanks, and so it’s letting Marine tankers say goodbye to the Corps sooner than later. Marines with the military occupational specialties of Armor Marine (1812) ...