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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cpl. Eddie Vincek was 19 when he landed on Iwo Jima. In September, 100 Marines helped him celebrate his 100th birthday.

"We’re going to be pretty disaggregated, seizing key maritime terrain, providing the sensing capability, and things like that ...

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 ...

A platoon that deployed with the new amphibious troop transport returns after eight months in the Indo Pacific.

(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 ...