RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — Two Marines based at Camp Lejeune were killed in Iraq on March 8, according to the Department of Defense. The Marines have been identified as Gunnery Sgt. Diego D. Pongo, 34, of ...
It’s the little details you tend to remember about war, snapshots of time that have a grisly habit of creeping into your thoughts and dreams years after your service: — The deafening silence of “roll ...
The worst U.S. "friendly fire" incident of the Iraq war has been blamed on a Marine captain who called fighter jets to strike suspected Iraqi positions last March, unaware that dozens of Marines were ...
BAGHDAD, July 9 -- U.S. Marines and Iraqi soldiers have launched an offensive against insurgents in Iraq's western Anbar province, their sixth since the beginning of May, raiding suspected guerrilla ...
“We can roll them up and finish this in a day.” It was April of 2004 and a combined Marine-Army force had fought its way into Fallujah, a major city in Anbar province as well as a stronghold of an ...
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. -- Two US Marines serving in Iraq died over the weekend, the Department of Defense said. The DOD identified Gunnery Sgt. Diego D. Pongo, 34, and Capt. Moises A. Navas, 34, as ...
A miniseries set during the Iraq war has been praised by US Marines for being one of the most "most accurate" portrayals of the soldier experience. Generation Kill, an HBO show that aired in 2008, is ...
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. Military prosecutors on Wednesday charged seven Marines and a Navy corpsman with premeditated murder, kidnapping and conspiracy in the shooting death of an Iraqi civilian in ...
NPR's Michele Norris talks with Ginger Perez and Tara Keith, two women whose husbands are Marines currently deployed in Fallujah as part of the 1st Marine Division, 5th Battalion. They discuss the ...