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Concerns about the future keep top Marine up at night

It's not the combat readiness or the courage of the men and women that wear the Marine Corps uniform that keeps the commandant of the Corps up at night. It's apprehension about looming budget cuts.

Tags: Gen. James F. Amos, Budget Control Act, J.J. Green, sequestration

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Chesty Puller statue to be installed by Quantico

Tags: Lewis Puller, Quantico, triangle

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General Dynamics unit gets Marine Corps contract

Defense contractor General Dynamics says its information technology business unit has been awarded a more than $94 million contract to support a Marine Corps logistics program.

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Wounded warriors make a splash for a good cause

It was race day for more than 200 military veterans and volunteers who suited up for the seventh annual Team River Runner Biathlon.

Tags: Team River Runner, army

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Marine Corps Museum puts Harpers Ferry artifact on display

A sledgehammer used in October 1859 to help capture John Brown is now available for public viewing at the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Triangle, Va.

Tags: civil war, Kathy Stewart,

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Photo of gay Marine's homecoming kiss goes viral

The photograph of a male Marine passionately embracing another man after returning from deployment has garnered more than 35,000 "Likes" on the Many of the comments compare the likeness to "V-J Day in Times Square," the iconic photograph published in Life magazine in 1945 of a sailor locking lips with a young nurse in a white dress.

Tags: Gays in the military, Don

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Virginia man among 7 Marines killed in helicopter crash

A Virginia man was among the Marines killed in a fiery collision of two helicopters in the California desert earlier this week.

Tags: Michael M. Quin, Camp Pendleton

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Va. Marine Corps museum hosts artifact roadshow

Tags: National Museum of the Marine Corps

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