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 ...
6 gates Fort Bliss named for heroes with ties to El Paso, 1st Armored Division
The following column describes six Army heroes, whose names may be less familiar than Sheridan and Pershing, who were honored ...
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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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The Marine Corps has finally fielded its first new amphibious vehicle since the Vietnam War
The Corps’s first new amphibious vehicle since Vietnam, the ACV is expected ... 3rd Assault Amphibian Battalion, 1st Marine Division at at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine ...
Billy Hall, a veteran of three wars, spent his last years making sure other’s service was honored
Every time Marine veteran Billy Hall shared the story of his military service across three wars, he ended it by telling those who thanked him for his service, “You were worth it.” Hall, of Orange, who ...