Eddie Vincek landed on Iwo Jima about an hour after the first wave of Marines hit the beach. A member of 1st Battalion, 28th Marine Regiment, it was his first taste of combat, he told an ...

October 23, 1983 – At 6:22 a.m., a truck carrying 2,000 pounds of explosives drives into the Marine compound in Beirut and crashes into the 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regimental Battalion Landing ...

For a specific crew in the War Devil Platoon, Battle Company, 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, these emotions are amplified, as it marks every member's first M1A2 SEP V3 Abrams crew ...

He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, and his job was to tend to the teeth of 950 personnel as they shipped out to Lebanon in 1983. Ware would ultimately play a much bigger ...

a sprawling installation from which most of the U.S. troops had deployed with 1st Battalion, 8th Marines, an infantry unit that has since been nicknamed the “Beirut Battalion.” At the memorial ...

(CNN) — Here is a look at the 1983 bombing of a Marine compound in Beirut, Lebanon, that killed 241 US service personnel. On October 23, 1983, 241 US service personnel – including 220 Marines ...

These are the approximate positions of the U.S. Navy’s deployed carrier strike groups and amphibious ready groups throughout the world… ...

The company has a new logo, designed by Pentagram, that looks incredibly plain — especially compared to previous iterations of the logo that featured a rakish slant, two shades of blue ...