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Topic: Marines

Members of the National Guard patrol Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 26, 2025. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Trump on deployments: I do what I want

Garrett Owen
Vice President JD Vance takes questions from reporters about the government shutdown at the White House on Oct. 1, 2025. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Vance called out after Calif. explosion

Garrett Owen
Demonstrators protest in Los Angeles following two days of clashes with police during a series of immigration raids on June 08, 2025. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Judge chides Trump on LA — and warns us

Austin Sarat
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump greets Elon Musk as he arrives to attend a viewing of the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket on November 19, 2024 in Brownsville, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Media again distracted by MAGA spectacle

Chauncey DeVega
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Tim Walz and JD Vance (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The Tim Walz test: Does service matter?

Eugene R. Fidell
Former US President Donald Trump speaks at a rally on September 25, 2021 in Perry, Georgia. (Sean Rayford/Getty Images)

Marine probed for Trump rally appearance

Brad Reed - Raw Story
Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Top Marine rejects Confederate flag

Shawn Snow - Military Times
President Donald Trump has lunch with troops while visiting U.S. Central Command and U.S. Special Operations Command at MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., Monday, Feb. 6, 2017. Trump, who spent the weekend at Mar-a-Lago, stopped for a visit to the headquarters before returning to Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) (AP)

Top Marine stumped by Trump's decision

Shira Tarlo
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Donald Trump addresses troops at Miramar Marine Corp Air Station. (Getty/Sandy Huffaker)

Internet reacts to the "Space Force"

Nicole Karlis
(AP/Getty/Salon)

Troops don't want Trump's parade

Amanda Marcotte
(AP)

White nationalism infects the military

Matthew Rozsa
(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Matthew Rozsa
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Gavin Long (YouTube/Cosmo Setepenra)

black veterans' tragic history

Chad Williams - The Conversation
(Coeur d'Alene Police Department via Associated Press)

Marine arrested at White House

Sophia Tesfaye

Muslims battle radicals too

Ahmed Shama

GOP finds its 2014 message

Jim Newell
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Alex Halperin
Cpl. Edward Chin, of the 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines Regiment, covers the face of a statue of Saddam Hussein with an American flag before toppling the statue in downtown in Bagdhad Wednesday, April 9, 2003. Moments later the American flag was removed. (AP/Jerome Delay)

Flag of shame

Jordan Heller
The Marine Base Quantico, spokesman Lt. Agustin Solivan briefs reporters following a shooting incident on the base Friday March 22, 2013. (AP/Matthew Barakat)

Matthew Bakarat
Still from YouTube video of marines urinating on dead Taliban fighters (YouTube)

Natasha Lennard
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