Marine Recon and Marine Raiders are both elite units within the Marine Corps, but their missions and roles differ ...

A Marine with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit prepares to board a combat rubber raiding craft to conduct a bottom-up visit, board, search, and seizure mission to intercept sensitive equipment ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON — The U.S. Marine Corps’ Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle is undergoing testing throughout this year, cementing a ...

Explore the critical differences between Marine Recon and Force Recon. Learn how Reconnaissance Marines serve as the tip of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bill recently introduced in Congress would upgrade a Silver Star Medal to a Medal of Honor for a recon Marine who fought through ...

The Marine Corps is exploring a variant of the amphibious combat vehicle for its future reconnaissance battalions with an equipment package containing drones and communication systems, and has asked ...

The backbone of the Marine Corps’ reconnaissance, the Light Armored Reconnaissance vehicle, is not a modern vehicle. Introduced into Marine Corps service in the early 1980s, the platform sports a 25mm ...

Marines with Battalion Landing Team 3/5, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), conduct communication tests during a light armored reconnaissance raid rehearsal at Camp Schwab, Okinawa, Japan, June 20, ...

The United States Marine Corps is on the hunt for a new vehicle to carry groups of reconnaissance Marines around the battlefield. The current backbone of Marine armored reconnaissance, the Light ...

Textron’s Cottonmouth vehicle is the company’s pitch for the Marine Corps’ Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle program to replace the aging Light Armored Vehicle for recon Marines. Textron photo. The ...

A Navy Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System launcher deploys into position aboard Pacific Missile Range Facility Barking Sands, Hawaii, Aug. 16, 2021. The NMESIS and its Naval Strike Missiles ...