Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Frederick W. Smith Frederick W. Smith, founder of FedEx and decorated Marine Vietnam Veteran has been named the 2024 Military ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Lance Cpl. Milo Plank Jr.’s tank platoon rolled off landing craft and onto beaches south of Chu Lai, Vietnam, in August 1965, ...

In 1966, a four-man Marine Force Recon team slipped into the Vietnamese jungle and changed the course of the war. Armed with ...

Rick Brunk was born in Jefferson, and joined the Marine Corps a year after high school graduation in 1967 in the middle of ...

Marines at Camp Lejeune now issue, turn in and repair gear under one roof at the new 109,000-square-foot Class II Logistics ...

(NEXSTAR) — This year marks 50 years since the fall of Saigon. For many who fought in Vietnam, the years since have been spent coping with physical pain and PTSD. Their common bond helps get them ...

Jimmy Jackson Jr. is among 28 service members unaccounted for who served in Vietnam and whose bodies were never recovered. In 1969, Lance Cpl. James W. “Jimmy” Jackson Jr. walked into a medical ...

Standing on the U.S. Embassy roof as tanks rumbled toward Saigon and gunfire rang out below, Juan Valdez wondered if he and his fellow Marines might have actually been forgotten. Working through the ...

Juan José Valdez, a Marine Corps veteran, remembers Vietnam when he hears the news about the United States' chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan. There he was in April 1975, on the roof of the U.S.

This article first appeared in the Stars and Stripes Global edition, March 5, 2018. It is republished unedited in its original form. Marine vet recalls battle that claimed his best friend DONG HA, ...

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (AP) — In a story April 30 about the last Marines to leave Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War, The Associated Press reported erroneously that two Marines killed April 29, ...