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 ...
Task & Purpose4y
The Marine Corps has finally fielded its first new amphibious vehicle since the Vietnam War
The Marine Corps has finally fielded its first ... The Corps’s first new amphibious vehicle since Vietnam, the ACV is expected to replace the service’s arsenal of Amphibious Assault Vehicles ...
Neue Zürcher Zeitung3y
The Vietnam War's 200,000 forgotten victims: North Vietnamese prisoners of war
Many became victims of the increasingly brutal Vietnam ... in the war effort had already begun to crumble. Among the speakers in Detroit was 27-year-old Capt. Ernest Sachs of the First Marine ...
Marine Corps Times on MSN2mon
Marine snipers, often overlooked, build a memorial for their fallen
The team is selling raffle tickets now for its first annual raffle of an authentic Marine M40 sniper rifle used in combat in ...
BBC1y
Tactics used in the Vietnam War
The USA would ultimately drop three million tonnes of bombs in Vietnam - more than all the bombs dropped in Europe during World War Two ... two battalions of US Marines were deployed to protect ...