The Marines stationed at Con Thien were constantly frightened. The military base located near the Vietnamese Demilitarized ...

The U.S. Marine Corps marks its 250th anniversary on Monday, and though they actively served as Marines more than five ...

It was a time of waiting, watching and wondering along the DMZ. In their foxholes and fortified villages, from behind hedgerows and under the cover of banana plantations, the tough troops of three ...

Bullets whizzed by Cpl. Daniel “Duke” Heller as he rescued wounded Marines who’d been trapped in a North Vietnamese Army ambush in the A Shau Valley, Vietnam, on Feb. 13, 1969. Despite being wounded ...

Why: I chose the United States Marine Corps because it looked the most challenging at the time. “The Few, The Proud, The ...

TABLE OF CONTENTS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; MAP LISTING; PART I-PRE-TET 1968; CHAPTER 1-A Puzzling War; III MAF January 1968; MACV and Command Arrangements; South Vietnam and I Corps; The Enemy; Focus on ...

When Lance Cpl. Milo Plank Jr.’s tank platoon rolled off landing craft and onto beaches south of Chu Lai, Vietnam, in August 1965, nobody fired a shot at them. But later that day, as he drove his M48 ...

On Veterans Day, two Marines shared their memories outside of the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor in Newburgh. Dan ...

Richard Schiltz served with the U.S. Marines from 1966 to 1969. He was raised in Billings. This is part of his story. Schiltz: “I knew I wasn’t going back (to college in Minnesota) with my 0.79 ...

Edward Florez was 18 years old, a high school senior in rural Rocky Ford, when he decided to take his future — or, at least the part of it he still could — into his own hands. It was 1968. Officially ...

Forced to rationalize defeat after defeat in South Viet Nam, the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese army have been desperately searching for a major military or psychological victory. They have lately ...

AUGUSTA, Kan. (KSNW) — Jim Hall graduated from Leon High School in 1966. Otherwise, he’s a lifelong citizen of Augusta. He’s also a lifelong Marine who was ordered to Vietnam in the middle of the Tet ...