Living in Topeka his whole life, Navy 3rd Class Petty Officer Ray Wadkins would see the world during quite a turbulent time.

Nickerson was informed that he could join the Marines but didn’t have to go to Vietnam. He had not done the work necessary to ...

Simple History U.S. MARINE (Vietnam war) Posted: November 18, 2024 | Last updated: December 4, 2024 The first American ground forces deployed against the viet cong and the NVA were the US Marines ...

During his tour of duty in Vietnam, he flew more than 900 missions from Marble Mountain, an aviation airfield facility mainly used by the U.S. Marine Corps southeast of Da Nang. He also flew ...

Rolling Thunder the POW/MIA mission and telling the stories of Vietnam veterans. “If you were a reconnaissance Marine and you served in Vietnam, at one time or another you set foot in Camp ...

The Marine Corps has finally fielded its first Amphibious ... The Corps’s first new amphibious vehicle since Vietnam, the ACV is expected to replace the service’s arsenal of Amphibious Assault ...

U.S. Marine Cpl. Charles 'Chuck' Estes was in a hurry, trying to make sure he had everything for a 10-man night ambush into the demilitarized zone. It was 1967, a couple of nights after a 24-hour ...

Before the Vietnam War, there was no Sniper training program in the U.S. Army. The first organized sniper training program was established in 1961 in Hawaii in the U.S. Marine Corps. The U.S. Army ...