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Friday, February 08, 2013  Original Iwo Jima monument coming to New York City auction, estimated to bring up to $1.8 million

Wednesday, September 12, 2012  Performance has been canceled by the military due to lack of aircraft.

Thursday, April 28, 2011  Obama was to announce Thursday that CIA Director Leon Panetta will replace Defense Secretary Robert Gates when Gates makes his long-planned exit this summer.

Monday, May 03, 2010  Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the military must rethink whether it can afford such a massive naval fleet at a time when the Army and Marine Corps need more money to take care of troops and their families.

Wednesday, March 31, 2010  An 86-year-old Chicago woman who joined the U.S. Marine Corps Women's Reserve in 1943 has been honored as the March veteran of the month in Illinois.

Monday, February 08, 2010  A spokesman says Democratic Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania, a retired Marine Corps officer who became an outspoken critic of the Iraq war, has died.