Irene Loewenson
Irene Loewenson is a staff reporter for Marine Corps Times. She joined Military Times as an editorial fellow in August 2022. She is a graduate of Williams College, where she was the editor-in-chief of the student newspaper.
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Pair who tried breaching Virginia Marine base are Jordanian nationals
They drove up to a base gate in a truck and claimed to be Amazon subcontractors making a delivery, a Marine spokesman said.
Watch Marines fire rocket from ‘creepy’ robot goat available on Amazon
Watch the robotic goat walk, beg, hop and sway its hips.
Do troops have right to unanimous verdicts? Supreme Court could weigh in
The top military court decided in June that service members accused of crimes aren’t entitled to unanimous verdicts, unlike in the civilian legal system.
Farmers grow corn maze marking 40 years since tragic attack on Marines
One Texas farm has grown an intricate 20-acre corn maze commemorating 40 years since the attack in Beirut that killed 241 U.S. troops.
Gen Z Marine lays out some ideas for fixing military recruitment
Some people think of Gen Z as the “everyone-gets-a-trophy generation,” 2nd Lt. Matthew Weiss said. But that’s not how he sees it.
Three top military leaders confirmed after Senate deal
The Senate is expected to fill three vacancies on the Joint Chiefs of Staff — including the chairman post — after a surprise breakthrough Wednesday.
Senators press Pentagon on new medical system’s recruiting impact
A letter to the Defense Department Wednesday seeks answers on how the Genesis military health system, and the need for more waivers, affects recruiting.
4-foot-7-inch Marine says peers in boot camp ‘kind of looked up to’ him
Is Pfc. Nathaniel Laprade the shortest service member of all time? It’s hard to say for sure.
2 years after deadly Kabul attack, Pentagon chief ‘stands in sorrow’
On Aug. 26, 2021, a suicide attack in Kabul killed 11 Marines, one Navy corpsman and one soldier, and approximately 170 Afghan civilians.
Marine veteran killed while volunteering as a fighter in Ukraine
"He came because he thought what was happening in Ukraine by Russia was wrong," his commander wrote on social media.
