When readers and armchair historians think of underwater combat, they probably think of Navy SEALs first, but Force Recon Marines, especially in the Vietnam War, saw a lot of diving duties. Like most ...

A bill recently introduced in Congress would upgrade a Silver Star Medal to a Medal of Honor for a recon Marine who fought through severe injuries while under attack on a mission in the jungles of ...

If you talk to many Vietnam War veterans, not many would enthusiastically say the experience was "great!" But Ralph Walls does, even though he had risky duty and was lucky to come back in one piece to ...

Amatangelo "AJ" Pasciuti, a former Marine Force Recon Scout Sniper and host of the Combat Story podcast, will release his ...

Ranger development. Ranger background ; Korean War Ranger experience ; Reconnaissance on the eve of the Vietnam Conflict -- Americal Infantry Division : Americal Rangers. Combat reconnaissance in ...

The long antenna made Lance Cpl. Edward Jay Rykoskey an obvious target in the countryside around Da Nang in South Vietnam. The enemy knew that standing just in front of the radio operator was the ...

Marines with 1st Reconnaissance Battalion stand by the sign marking the entrance of their Vietnam headquarters. (Courtesy of Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis.) On a hill near Da Nang, Vietnam, sat Camp ...

On June 11, 1967, U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. David Boyer wrote a letter to his father, Elwood. “I’m writing this letter now in case I get blown away,” he wrote. His father had been worried about his son.