An artist's rendering of the 5th Marines Vietnam Memorial, which will be installed in the Camp San Mateo Memorial Garden on Camp Pendleton, California, on Memorial Day. (Rock of Ages) A new ...

The 2,706 Marines and sailors who died in Vietnam while serving in the 5th Marine Regiment are a step closer to being honored with a memorial at Camp Pendleton.

Cpt. Cole Lapierre, Company Commander of HQ Company, 5th Marine Regiment offers a hug to Vietnam veteran David Palomares. Palomares served with the 5th Marines during Vietnam from 1966-1967.

At Camp Pendleton Monday the 5th Marines Vietnam War Memorial to honor those service members was dedicated in front of a crowd that included Gold Star families and Vietnam Veterans.

Marines line the roadway just prior to the arrival of the monument to honor Vietnam veterans arrives from Vermont at Camp Pendleton’s 5th Marine Regiment Memorial Garden at Camp San Mateo on ...

Several Marines from D Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, many of them wounded, took shelter in the villa after a fierce firefight with the enemy in the streets of Hue. U.S. Marines had been ...

The 5th Marines Vietnam War Memorial will be assembled at Camp San Mateo Memorial Garden where currently other memorial monuments are in place that honor other war campaigns.

But 50 years later, few Americans even know what our Marines accomplished at Hue because the battle didn’t fit a biased media’s narrative then and now – the claim that in 1968 we were losing ...

Fellow Marines plugged placed Grantham on a door that another Marine had kicked down for use as a stretcher, plugged his bullet wounds with cellophane from cigarette packs and wrapped him in ...

Marines still healing, 50 years after Vietnam by: Jeremey Hubbard Posted: Apr 17, 2025 / 03:55 PM EDT Updated: Apr 17, 2025 / 03:55 PM EDT (NEXSTAR) — This year marks 50 years since the fall of ...

Their common bond helps get them through. That was clear when a group of Vietnam Marines were asked about their experiences on the battlefield ...

The story behind the memorial with marines from the 5th Marine Regiment isn’t something that happens every day.