Storied Marine infantry battalion to be transformed into Littoral Combat Team
Battalion, 4th Marines was captured in World War II and reforged from the Marine Corps' first Raider units. Now it will ...
Opinion: Women, gays, transgender and queer Americans serve in the military because men won’t
The modern all-volunteer military was born in the post-Vietnam years and has struggled to recruit men due to its dangerous ...
PBS3 年
1st to fight: Pacific War Marines
On the Pacific island of Guadalcanal in 1942, the famed 1st Marine Division — the oldest, largest and most decorated division of the U.S. Marine Corps — defeated Japanese forces in a turning ...
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Marine receives Purple Hearts for brain injuries suffered nearly 15 years ago in Afghanistan
Chief Warrant Officer 2 William Faffler recently received two Purple Hearts for traumatic brain injuries he sustained in ...
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Marines make first landing on renovated WWII airfield in the Pacific
Brandon Gonzalez, a combat engineer squad leader who led ... Eugene Sledge, who fought in the Battle of Peleliu with the 1st Marine Division and later authored one of the key Marine memoirs ...
Army Times28 天
A Marine’s legacy as first Puerto Rican Medal of Honor recipient
1st Marine Division (Reinforced) in Korea. By the time Garcia reached the combat zone, the most strategically significant campaigns were past. From then until July 1953, the warring sides ...