When it comes to the U.S. Armed Forces’ elite Special Operations units, plenty of folks have heard of the Army’s Delta Force, ...

Edward Banas has made a life out of serving those who served. A Niantic resident for 18 years, the Norwich native was among almost 100 local Korean and Vietnam War veterans recognized Monday in the ...

First, the U.S. is not at war and the military bureaucracy has a peacetime attitude towards any new technology. This includes the use of drones in Ukraine and the flood of practical experience and ...

A Marine with the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit fires a Mk22 Mod 0 in the Philippines, October 2024. (Cpl. Joseph ...

Marines,” proclaim their recruiting ads, are “The Few. The Proud.” Nowadays, they also are: The Fractious. Their hymn (“From the halls of Montezuma …”) says Marines are “First to fight.” ...

His unit conducted long range reconnaissance patrols (LRRP’s) and fought against the 95th division of the Peoples Army of the Republic of Vietnam and Viet Cong (PARV ... being the United States Army, ...

Belarus has announced that Vasily Veremeichik - a former soldier in the Kastuś Kalinoŭski Regiment, a unit made up of ...

In support of the Cold War International History Project’s efforts to facilitate the release of historical materials from governments on all sides of the Cold War, we have compiled 80 primary source ...

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

As Ukraine marks 1,000 days since Russian troops invaded on February 24, 2022, DW looks at the numbers behind a war that has led to an estimated 1 million deaths and displaced several million more ...

Although not officially adopted for combat during the Vietnam War, the M70 was still used unofficially in the Marines ... his Silver Star in 1969 during a reconnaissance mission in Kien Hoa ...