The 5th Marine Regiment is known as the Fighting 5th and in Vietnam, they fought hard in unimaginable conditions. When the war was over, 2,706 Marines from the 5th and the Navy Corpsman that served ...

Hue, South Vietnam, February 1968: A wounded Marine lies bleeding in a vacant villa as a fellow Marine, also wounded, tries to tend to his wounds. Several Marines from D Company, 1st Battalion, 5th ...

VISTA, Calif. (KGTV) — It’s been a nearly two-and-a-half-year journey to unveil a newly restored Vietnam War Memorial. The story behind the memorial with marines from the 5th Marine Regiment isn’t ...

This is the powerful, true story of a Navy Corpsman who displayed extraordinary courage in Vietnam. The veteran shares his ...

I applaud the local veterans who were highlighted in the story about local Vietnam veterans (“Shock and awfulness,” Herald, May 3.) Each of them served honorably, and their stories were well worth ...

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. — Ken Benckwitz was spit on at John F. Kennedy International Airport. People threw feces at Dan Mulvihill at LAX. After his return, John Baker was told by the first girl he ...

When John White and Bill Seymour reconnected this year after 55 years, from time to time they laughed. It was, perhaps, an unexpected reaction. The last time they had seen each other, John was ...

CAMP PENDLETON — President Nixon on Friday looked over a parade ground full of battle-seasoned U.S. Marines recently returned from Vietnam and declared that they had come home with "mission ...

Retired Lt. Gen. Henry “Hank” C. Stackpole, a decorated Vietnam combat veteran and Marine Corps legend with deep ties to Hawaii and the Pacific, has died, the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for ...