It was July 1968 and Jim Files — an airborne and scuba-qualified reconnaissance Marine — was assigned with fellow Marines to guard a bridge at Cam Lo, Vietnam. “We would scuba under the ...

The pleasure of spending a few hours with 99-year-old Loyd Brandt and Joyce, his wife of 78 years, is also splendid food for ...

In 2006, retired Marine Clyde Childress drove by the Virginia War Memorial and saw that no service flags were flying. The U.S. and Virginia flags were up, but caught in the midst of a state budget ...

SAN DIEGO - The U.S. Marine Corps released a sergeant Friday whose murder conviction was overturned in a major blow to the military's prosecution of Iraq war crimes.

Stephen R. Platt. Knopf, $32 (544p) ISBN 978-0-525-65801-6 An innovative military leader who tried to bring communist ideals to the U.S. Marine Corps is spotlighted in this rousing biography.