The Navy is investigating how a passenger jet-sized surveillance and patrol aircraft ended up in the water Monday after it overshot the runway at a Marine Corps air base in Hawaii.
Gen. Eric M. Smith, the recently installed commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, has been hospitalized after experiencing what the Marine Corps said was a "medical emergency" over the weekend, officials said Monday.
Questions swirled Tuesday about the doomed, pilotless F-35B fighter jet that went down in South Carolina, with neither the Pentagon nor the aircraft manufacturer offering any firm clues more than a week after the mysterious crash.
A Marine trainee was shot and killed in a nighttime live-fire training exercise held Thursday by the Corps' School of Infantry-West at the Camp Pendleton base in California.