The Marines deem themselves to be elite, and their Force Recon units – special-ops-capable Marines who specialize in going deep into enemy territory to scout out the bad guys — are among the ...

When readers and armchair historians think of underwater combat, they probably think of Navy SEALs first, but Force Recon Marines, especially in the Vietnam War, saw a lot of diving duties. Like ...

Highly trained U.S. Marines completed an important mission at Camp Pendleton on Friday. Reconnaissance Marines competed in the 14th annual Recon Challenge.

He was selected for the recon marines, an elite group of 300 soldiers who train to fight underwater, in jungles, from choppers, on mountains, through deserts.

A bill recently introduced in Congress would upgrade a Silver Star Medal to a Medal of Honor for a recon Marine who fought through severe injuries while under attack on a mission in the jungles of ...

Bixler, 20, of Suffield, Conn., was killed May 4 while on foot patrol in Anbar province. He was assigned to the 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force ...

The companies, one for each of the Marine Corps three active-duty divisions, could contain as many as a dozen to 18 multi-mission reconnaissance watercraft and an undisclosed number of unmanned ...

Ukraine’s French Recon Vehicles Are Too Flimsy For Frontal Assaults, So The Marines Are Using Them As Artillery By David Axe, Former Staff.

Textron has submitted its Cottonmouth prototype as its offering to the Marine Corps' Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle competition. (Photo courtesy of Textron) The Marine Corps has kicked off its ...