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 ...
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 ...
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Military police, engineer units from Army, Marines deploy to the US-Mexico border
Military police and Army engineers from seven states will join Marine Corps engineers from California already en route for a ...
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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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1st Infantry Division heads west for division-level training
The 1st Infantry Division from Fort Riley has returned to the National Training Center in Fort Irwin, California, for a division-level training rotation.
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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 ...
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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 ...