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It looks like many other small country towns in Vietnam, slow paced, surrounded by untamed terrain and full of noisy motor ...

Six years into its modernization initiative, the Marine Corps has a head start on some of its sister services. But there’s ...

The announcement came Tuesday at the Navy League’s annual Sea, Air and Space Exposition during a panel on Marine Corps ...

The fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, marked the end of the Vietnam War. The 50-year anniversary of that milestone is now upon us. This is an appropriate ...

The commandant said that the changes were informed by bottom-up feedback from Marines in the fleet, "empowered by our ...

Dropping back to the 13-Marine configuration still gives Marines more personnel than the standard nine-soldier U.S. Army ...

The Marines are adding a precision fires specialist to rifle squads based on lessons learned in Ukraine about the use of ...

William Gosch of North Tonawanda is a 101-year-old World War II combat veteran, and a subject of a California artist's project that combines history and art.

Marine chemistry is the study of the chemical composition and chemical processes of the world’s oceans. Some of the key processes studied are the cycling of: inorganic and organic carbon ...

As a TA weekend warrior, Owain Mulligan didn’t expect to be deployed but, as he says in his first interview, funny things ...

O’Malley, 81, the first U.S. Marine Corps recipient of the Medal of Honor in the Vietnam war, was accompanied by his stepdaughter Shannon Dear. She lives in Euless; O’Malley lived in a nursing home in ...