Moving Marines from Okinawa to Guam “puts us going the wrong way,” Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Eric Smith told reporters at a Defense Writers Group event in Washington, D.C. Wednesday.

On the night of Feb. 24, 1969, Airman 1st Class Levitow was serving as the loadmaster aboard an AC-47, codename “Spooky 71,” ...

The family of Jesse W. Hankey will receive friends on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025, from 2 to 4 p.m. and 5 to 7 p.m., and on ...

If there is one thing militaries worldwide have learned, unnecessary expenses can lead to lost lives. As a result, there ...

He was deployed to Southeast Asia with CVW-19 aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga in 1966 until he was shot down and forced to eject over North Vietnam. He was taken as a Prisoner of War ...

They graduated in 1966 and married in Dillon ... In August 1969, Staff Sergeant Rambo arrived in Vietnam. On November 26, 1969, his unit came under attack. Despite the danger, he worked heroically ...

For Tino Adame, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and Vietnam Purple Heart recipient ... "I walked into an ambush in 1966 so I spent a year, nine months, (and) 14 days at the Marine Corps," Adame ...

27, 1947 in French Camp. He enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps at just 19 years old. While in Vietnam, he was wounded during an ambush when his unit came under heavy fire. That prompted him to be ...

1st Marine Division and served as a rifleman with the unit. On July 24, 1966, Pittman was on a trail in Vietnam when men ahead of his unit came under fire. Instead of fleeing from the attack ...

Two streets in French Camp have been named after notable local veterans: Richard A. Pittman Drive and Tino Adame Road are ...