It’s Saturday, Nov. 18, 1972. The weather’s crisp, the stands at Smedley Butler Stadium are packed, and the Quantico Marines football team is down by three against South Dakota State. Two minutes left ...

Then-Chief Warrant Officer 3 Stephen LaRose is interviewed in 2013 for a video on IED training, Camp Leatherneck, Helmand province, Afghanistan. (Sgt. Eric S. Wilterdink/Marine Corps) A senior Marine ...

Ross Wimer’s family already stood on edge when that first letter from Afghanistan arrived on a bitter cold day. Rick Wimer, a retired Marine gunnery sergeant from West Point, Neb., hold’s his son Ross ...

US troops in Afghanistan formally handed over the key Leatherneck Base in the restive southern province of Helmand to Afghan forces on Sunday as part of Washington's planned exit from the country, the ...

On Monday, The Washington Post published a damning report about the mind-boggling dishonesty employed by the U.S. government in the service of prolonging the war in Afghanistan. The U.S.-led campaign, ...

MARTINSVILLE, Ind. — Former Marines Keaton Mahan, Brian Moore and Tim May's long days of 2011 in Afghanistan seem like a lifetime ago — the escorting of convoys, sleeping on the roadside or inside an ...

I hung out with some Marines recently at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, where we chatted about a wide range of topics, but nothing dominated the conversation more than ...

This is a story about how the U.S. military built a lavish headquarters in Afghanistan that wasn’t needed, wasn’t wanted and wasn’t ever used at a cost to American taxpayers of at least $25 million.

The Pentagon wasted $36 million by building a command facility in Afghanistan after the troop surge there ended — against the advice of generals on the ground who said it wasn't needed, a military ...

Marines listen to a USO concert at Camp Leatherneck in the Hilmand province of Afghanistan MCT The U.S. government’s Afghanistan spending watchdog has recommended that three senior Army officers – a ...

Major Gen. Sayed Malouk, Afghan National Army 215th Corps commander, speaks during RC(SW) end of operations ceremony aboard Camp Leatherneck, Helmand province, Afghanistan, October 26, 2014. The ...

Brigadier Gen. Daniel D. Yoo, commanding general, Marine Expeditionary Brigade – Afghanistan, speaks with Maj. Gen. Sayed Malouk, the commander of the Afghan National Army’s 215th Corps, about the ...