Retired Marine Maj. James Capers Jr., a Bishopville, South Carolina, native now living in Jacksonville, North Carolina, is one presidential signature away from finally receiving the Medal of Honor for ...

SAIGON -- Combat-ready U.S. Marines swarmed ashore today and took up defense positions around the Da Nang air base only 80 miles from Communist North Vietnam. It was the first Marine landing in a ...

Twelve Vietnam veterans are going back to the country where they fought and for most, it will be their first time on ...

The Senate this week cleared the way for a legendary Force Reconnaissance Marine to receive the Medal of Honor for his lifesaving actions in April 1967 that spared the lives of his nine-man team ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. James Capers Jr. led a small reconnaissance team through an ambush in Vietnam even though he had more than a dozen shrapnel and ...

It took months of risk and danger in the Vietnam War before U.S. Marine Cpl. Dennis Fisher got used to reaching for his camera instead of his firearm. “This drive ...

When two understrength Marine companies pushed north along Highway 561 on the morning of July 2, 1967, they walked straight into hell. Alpha and Bravo Companies of 1st Battalion, 9th Marines—numbering ...

Operating far ahead of the main force, Force Recon Marines have spent nearly seven decades doing the jobs nobody else can reach in time. In this episode, we trace how Force Recon was born in the Cold ...

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