We might see the surging of a third U.S. aircraft carrier under the Navy’s fleet readiness plan. But we’d also expect to see the deployment of the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit to join the USS Gerald ...

MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C.—II Marine Expeditionary Force has certified the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit as a Special Operations Capable Marine Air-Ground Task Force. The designation of MEU ...

Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces, Adm. Phil Davidson, has ordered the amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) and amphibious transport dock ship USS New York (LPD 21), with elements from the 26th ...

A Marine Corps expeditionary unit, which abruptly ended pre-scheduled training in Kuwait last week, is en route "to the waters off of Israel," a defense official familiar with planning told ...

ABOARD THE USS BATAAN—When the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit sets sail this summer, it will be carrying artillery and munitions new to East Coast MEUs, plus a new unit trained for multi-domain ...

A special operations capable Marine rapid response force of nearly 2,000 Marines and sailors is moving closer to Israel via the Red Sea, according to a defense official. On Monday, Fox News confirmed ...

The Marine Corps’ expeditionary unit capable of special operations has departed early from a scheduled exercise with Kuwait “as a result of a emerging events,” days after war broke out in the Levant ...

U.S. Marines with 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, assigned to the Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Central Command (SPMAGTF-CR-CC) 19.2, reinforce the Baghdad Embassy Compound ...

The Bataan Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) and embarked 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) completed passage through the Strait of Hormuz, entering the Arabian Gulf from the Gulf of Oman, on Feb. 12.

A U.S. Marine MV-22B Osprey assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 162 (Reinforced), 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit lands aboard the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship Iwo Jima (LHD 7) in ...

Feb. 12 (UPI) --The Bataan Amphibious Ready Group and 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit completed passage through the Strait of Hormuz to the Arabian Gulf Wednesday, according to the Navy. "Bataan's ...

July 13 (UPI) --The 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit returned to Camp Lejuene, N.C., after a seven-month deployment, the Marines announced on Monday. The unit of about 2,400 Navy and Marine personnel ...