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 ...
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 ...
Task & Purpose4 年
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 ... D, 3rd Assault Amphibian Battalion, 1st Marine Division at at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine ...
来自MSN2 个月
Liberty County Vietnam vets to be honored in VA clinic renaming ceremony
He arrived in Vietnam on October 12, 1967, with the 1st Marine Division, and was killed by small arms fire during the Tet Offensive on February 7, 1968. He was 21 years old. Dan James (1948-1968 ...