Capt. George Phillips told his story to a group of young Marines and Sailors as they visited the site of the military ...

NORWALK -- Fifty years ago this month, John Rey was counting down the days until his four-year U.S. Marines stint ended. "I had a job as an electrician waiting for me in New York," said Rey, now 72 ...

By late 1967, the M50 Ontos was just about phased out of military service. The Army had rejected it back in 1953, calling it too cramped, too lightly armored and too awkward to reload. Only the Marine ...

During the monsoon season of 1965, US Marines and South Vietnamese troops advanced into a known enemy stronghold. A sudden ambush shattered unit cohesion and triggered hours of desperate combat, where ...

On March 8, 1965, 3,500 Marines from the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade arrived in Da Nang, South Vietnam. Their mission was to protect a U.S. air base from attacks by the self-proclaimed National ...

Nederland, Colorado — During the height of the Vietnam War, being stationed at U.S. Marine outpost Con Thien was like a death sentence. "It just seemed like a matter of time for everybody," retired ...

Decades after surviving more than 2,600 days as a prisoner of war, Vietnam veteran Harlan Chapman has been laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. During the war, he was a Marine ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Two Greensboro Marines, who served decades apart, are bound by the same unbreakable brotherhood. While they shared their stories with WFMY News 2's Nixon Norman on Veterans Day ...

Retired Marine Corps Maj. James Capers, Jr. received the Silver Star Medal in 2010 for actions in the Vietnam War. (Courtesy of Jim Capers) A bill recently introduced in Congress would upgrade a ...

Longtime Bakersfield resident and U.S. Marine combat veteran Charlie Wilmot served in the jungles of Vietnam in 1968 and 1969. Nearly 60 years later, Wilmot is still serving — as a volunteer with ...