“I saw a 37mm shell the size of a white softball,” recalled Lt. Col. Henry Buttelmann. “The forward and aft warning lights…
Third Marine Aircraft Wing reactivated Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 311, an F-35C Lightning II squadron, at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, Claif.,…
Army Sgt. James William Robinson Jr. was surrounded by the enemy deep in the Vietnam jungle when he gave his…
Dale Dye was born in Cape Girardeau, Mo., in October 1944. As a child, Dye often joined his father, a liquor salesman,…
Nathan Elrod was born in April 1986 in Salisbury, N.C., and is the son of Timothy and Teresa Elrod. In 2004,…
Twenty-nine U.S. Marines stationed at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in Southern California received certification to form the Marine Corps’…
Frederick Pokorney Jr. was born in August 1971 in San Antonio, Texas. He spent most of his life in Nevada and…
Col. Ruth Cheney Streeter served in the Marine Corps as the first director of the U.S. Marine Corps Women’s Reserve. She…
Carol A. Mutter dedicated almost 32 years of her life to a career in the Marine Corps. Growing up on a sharecropping farm in Greeley,…
Lee Marvin upheld a tough-guy persona on and off the screen—from the Pacific Theater to Hollywood. Born in February 1924…
The CH-53K King Stallion completed five full days and nights of envelope expansion testing at sea in the Atlantic last…
Sam Huff was born in July 1986 in Tucson, Ariz. Her father, Robert, was a detective who later became a musician, and…
On March 31, 2004, armed insurgents ambushed and killed four American civilian security contractors who were driving through the city…
