Crestodina shows readers five different vessels that guardsmen use, from tiny motorized lifeboats to marine-class cutters to icebreakers. He explains how rescues are performed, and, for any ...

We asked a few salty Recon Marine veterans which books they recommend. “All It Takes” by Travis Nardi unpacks the rigors of earning the title of Recon Marine. This book is one of the top how ...

THE EDGE OF THE SEA (276 pp.)—Rachel Carson—Houghton Mifflin ($3.95). Author and Marine Biologist Rachel Carson has moved in from the vasty deeps of The Sea Around Us and made a beachhead on ...

Gregory (“Pappy”) Boyington’s saga begins in the summer of 1941, when he was a Marine officer and a flying instructor on the naval air base at Pensacola. He was, as usual, restless.

After a century of use and legend-building, the Marine Corps is doing away with the scout sniper as part of a larger force redesign, and the eight Marines who graduated on Dec. 15 signaled the end ...

On Saturday night, Calvert Marine Museum volunteer Emily Bzdyk was collecting fossils at Calvert Cliffs in Maryland when she made a discovery that could help write history books on marine life ...