2004-10-30 04:00:00 PDT Near Fallujah, Iraq-- Marines just outside the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah were making final preparations Friday for a large-scale offensive that U.S. commanders and ...

Camp Lejeune, N.C. -- Tears and cheers marked the return this weekend of several hundred troops from a US Marines battalion that spent seven months in Iraq. Their duty included bloody missions in the ...

My colleague Roger Kaplan recently wrote an excellent review of the PBS documentary, The Last 600 Meters, which is an excellent description of the battles of Najaf and Fallujah during the Iraq war.

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 ...

The Marine Corps is working to create more sizes of body armor, but has not yet incorporated features used by the Army to make protection better fitting for female service members. (U.S. Marine Corps) ...

Marines and Navy Corpsmen of Charlie Company "Warpigs," 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion fight together through some of the heaviest urban combat of the 21st century in the second battle of ...