A pair of Marine Corps rotational force units, one new and the other more than a decade old, are expanding the footprint of Marine units in the Pacific. Marine Rotational Force-Darwin has deployed ...

U.S. Marines with Marine Rotational Force – Darwin (MRF-D), arrive as part of the force enhancement for the 2019 rotation at RAAF Base Darwin, Australia, on July 17, 2019. Marine Corps Photo The ...

Northern Australia played host to two major multilateral military exercises in July — and the U.S. Marine Corps was in the thick of the action for both. The Marines’ participation in the air-focused ...

U.S. Marines with Marine Rotational Force – Darwin receive COVID-19 test at Royal Australian Air Force Base Darwin in NT, Australia on June 18, 2020. US Marine Photo A Marine assigned to the ...

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — More than 1,000 Marines will train in Australia over the next two weeks, testing the waters for the six-month deployment of a battalion-size force there next year. The Marines ...

The US Marine Corps (USMC) will begin storing and maintaining Bell Boeing MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft in northern Australia between annual training rotations, marking a new stage in the Marine ...

The first group of about 200 US marines has arrived in Darwin as part of the 10th Marine Rotational Force – Darwin (MRF-D), which will see about 2,200 personnel arrive in Australia’s Northern ...

A portion of a ground combat element has deployed from Camp Pendleton, via Australia, to the Philippines to train with the Philippine Marine Corps’ (PMC) 1st Marine Brigade. In Mindanao, U.S. Marines ...