The National Museum of the Marine Corps is set to open two new wings covering the Cold War and the Iraq and Afghanistan ... The blast threw his turret gunner from the vehicle, ruptured everyone ...

Simons was taking a break while patrolling the desert city of Qaim in western Iraq, near the ... so much since joining the Marine Corps that he had been named SAW gunner -- typically a burly ...

Around 4 a.m. on March 21, 2003, U.S. soldiers and Marines crossed the border from ... Ammunition for a SAW machine gun surrounds a U.S. flag at the defensive position of Task Force Tarawa April ...

The Marine Corps relieved one of its top commanders in Iraq Friday, an extremely unusual ... intended to expose the locations of the Iraqi gun batteries, which could then be hit by airstrikes.

The gallery about Afghanistan and Iraq opened ... a picture of Marines holding onto a rope attached to a helicopter. He said the scene reminded of one incident in Vietnam when he saw a rope ...

Eleven of them were Lima Company Marines. The Columbus-based Reserve unit was among the hardest-hit of the war in Iraq, losing 23 ... the lance corporal served as gunner for the second vehicle ...

Malone was a machine gunner with the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, based out of Marine Corps Base Hawaii ... killed in action in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.