On Aug. 1, the U.S. Senate confirmed Lt. Gen. Michael E. Langley's nomination, which will make him the first Black four-star general in the U.S. Marine Corps' 246-year history. U.S. Marine Corps hide caption
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Cpl. Ajmal Achekzai, 26, who served as a translator for the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, talks with two Afghan locals in December 2001 at the perimeter of a patrol base in southern Afghanistan. Sgt. Joseph R. Chenelly/USMC/Getty Images hide caption
An Afghan Marine Fought To Make His Homeland Safer. Now He Feels Like He Failed
Ralph "AK" Angkiangco spent just under a decade in the United States Navy as a hospital corpsman. He deployed to Afghanistan twice and served alongside the Marines. Courtesy Ralph Angkiangco hide caption
A U.S. Navy plane flies above a Japan Coast Guard patrol vessel during search-and-rescue efforts last week off the coast of Kochi prefecture, in southern Japan. Kyodo via Reuters hide caption
Gen. Robert Neller, front row fourth from left, at Bait-us-Samad (House of the Eternal) mosque outside Baltimore, Md., Thursday night. The Marine Corps' top general was an Iftar guest at the invitation of Marine veteran Mansoor Shams, fifth from left. Courtesy Mansoor Shams hide caption
MV-22 Ospreys are seen at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan, Okinawa, in 2014. Eric Talmadge/AP hide caption
Army troops from The Old Guard at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall. Three people were hospitalized after a letter was opened on the Marine Corps side of the base. Mark Wilson/Getty Images hide caption
Okinawa Governor Takeshi Onaga, stands outside an elementary school as he shows a picture of the window fallen from U.S. military helicopter onto the sports ground of the school in Ginowan, Okinawa, on Wednesday. AFP/Getty Images hide caption
On Saturday, the U.S. Marines said three service members were missing after an MV-22 Osprey, like the one shown, "entered the water" off the coast of Australia. Koji Ueda/AP hide caption
Captain Janine Garner on her second deployment in 2007 refueling the Al Asad air base in Iraq Maj. Janine Garner hide caption
Sgt. Kelly Brown puts her weapon over her shoulder at the Marine base at Twentynine Palms, Calif., in March. On Thursday, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter announced that women would be allowed to serve in combat jobs. David Gilkey/NPR hide caption
A Marine Corps F-35B Joint Strike Fighter does a short takeoff (STOVL) from Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Md., in 2011. Eighteen years after development began, a version of the plane designed for the Marine Corps is expected to be deemed "combat ready." Cliff Owen/AP hide caption
Yusra Siddiqui, right, and Zoha Ahmad, who came with others from the Islamic Society of Greater Chattanooga to offer their support, pray during an interfaith vigil at Olivet Baptist Church held in remembrance of victims of Thursdays shootings. Doug Strickland/TNS/Landov hide caption
Nepali army soldiers prepare for a rescue mission to the downed U.S. helicopter on Friday. Officials say the remains of all eight aboard the Huey UH-1 have been recovered. Niranjan Shrestha/AP hide caption
Katie Gorz (left) performs the ammo can lift next to male Marines as they go through the combat fitness test. The Marine Corps is experimenting with inserting some women into combat infantry roles that have historically been limited to men. At Camp Lejeune, female Marines are undergoing the same training as their male counterparts for combat arms. Travis Dove for NPR hide caption
Capt. Nathan McHone was killed in Afghanistan at age 29. Courtesy of the McHone family hide caption
Chester Nez, one of 29 Navajo Code Talkers whose language skills thwarted the Japanese military in World War II, is shown in a November 2009 photo. Nez died on Wednesday. Felicia Fonseca/AP hide caption
A Sparks Middle School student cries with family members after a fellow student killed a math teacher and himself Monday in Sparks, Nev. Kevin Clifford/AP hide caption