United States Marine Corps

A 24-year-old gunman opened fire at two US military centers in Tennessee on July 16, killing four Marines in a rampage that officials said was being investigated as an act of "domestic terrorism." 

A US Marine Crops unit will be deployed to Bulgaria this autumn, AP wrote late Thursday.

The unit of 155 Marines will be stationed here for eighteen months.

It will be equipped with four Abrams main battle tanks, six light armored vehicles and three howitzers, Brig Gen Norman Cooling is quoted by the Marine Corps Times as saying.

Lockheed Martin Corp has won a contract valued at $920 million to start buying materials and parts for a tenth batch of 94 F-35 fighter jets, the Pentagon announced on June 4.

The "Platinum Eagle" annual training module of the "Black Sea Rotational Force 15" (BSRF-15) multinational exercise is running until May 28 at the Babadag firing range in Tulcea County.

Photo credit: (c) Luisiana BIGEA / AGERPRES PHOTO

US and Bulgarian military personnel began an exercise in the host country of Romania on May 18, according to Pentagon spokesman Army Col. Steve Warren.

Exercise Platinum Eagle 2015 is a multinational exercise at Babadag Training Area, Romania, designed to demonstrate the capabilities of NATO allies in Eastern Europe, Warren said, as cited by the US Department of Defense.

Hundreds of Nepali troops were searching for a missing U.S. Marines helicopter with eight people on board on May 13, a day after the second powerful earthquake in less than three weeks killed scores and sent panicked residents into the street.

President Barack Obama will nominate Marine General Joseph Dunford as the next chairman of the joint chiefs, choosing an officer with battlefield experience in Iraq and Afghanistan for the US military's top job.
 

The US Marine Corps on Sunday urged "vigilance" among staff after the Islamic State of Irag and the Levant (ISIL) published the alleged names and addresses of 100 military personnel and urged supporters to kill them.
      

Regional forces work with US to promote peace, stability

Regional security forces co-operate with the US Marines to boost their peacekeeping capacities through joint military exercises.

US Marines attempt to break through Bulgarian and Serbian soldiers during the riot control course of Platinum Wolf 15 at the South base in Serbia. [US Marines]

President Barack Obama in a Christmas Day speech to US troops stationed in Hawaii hailed their "extraordinary dedication and sacrifices," as NATO prepares to wrap up its combat mission in Afghanistan.