Somewhere around Con Thien, Vietnam: A Marine scans the perimeter for any enemy activity. Marines launched another phase of Operation Prairie IV on May 13, 1967. On May 16, Alpha Company of the 1st ...

John Musgrave became permanently disabled the moment a Viet Cong soldier fired a machine gun into his chest. It was 1967 and the nation was in conflict over the Vietnam War. Musgrave, a member of the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. FISHERS,Ind. — During the last weekend in ...

I’m here because the shrapnel that would have pierced my dad’s heart struck the 20-round magazine of his M16 instead. It wasn’t his first or last near-death experience as a Marine in Vietnam from 1968 ...

Second Lt. Steve Colwell’s Vietnam tour with D Company, 1st Battalion Fifth Marines in 1967 lasted seven weeks. It ended when a booby trap detonated on his patrol near Hoi An, leading to seven months ...

A local Marine and Vietnam War veteran was among dozens who took a trip of a lifetime to the nation’s capital. For GW Shopbell, the trip to D.C. is one he’ll always remember. The trip, sponsored by ...

William Pimentel was born in Eureka and joined the Marine Corps — Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 9th Marines — in Camp Pendleton in Oceanside for boot camp. Pimentel was shipped to Camp Schwab, ...

CAMP PENDLETON — First Lt. Philip H. Sauer and four Marines were sent on a reconnaissance mission to the top of hill 861 to get a better view of a cave complex suspected to be a North Vietnamese Army ...