WASHINGTON — Now that the Marine Corps is engaged in a sweeping effort to fix problems in its barracks buildings, Marine leaders have offered some explanations for how the barracks got to be ...

Sgt. Maj. Anthony Easton, left, the sergeant major of Marine Corps Installations Pacific, and Lt. Gen. Edward Banta, right, the Deputy Commandant for Installations and Logistics, walk through a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Marine Corps has wrapped up its “wall-to-wall” inspections of its more than 60,000 barracks rooms. Detailed results from the ...

Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps Carlos Ruiz, left, tours a barracks room during a visit to Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Feb. 21. (Cpl. Henry Rodriguez/Marine Corps) NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Giving ...

The Marine Corps is expanding its plan to put civilians in its barracks manager program, a move intended to improve decades-old housing by hiring contractors to run down repairs and inspections ...

Nearly half of the Marine Corps' barracks -- about 49% -- were found to have problems following a force-wide inspection earlier this year, but only a tiny fraction of those issues such as mold ...