Gary Salo enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1969 at the age of 20. Following boot camp, hewas promoted to PFC and went to machine gun school in Camp Horno, at the Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in San ...

Like most everyone his age, Chris Dziczek has memories of the summer of 1969, when man landed on the moon and kids flocked to Woodstock. As Neil Armstrong was making his “giant leap for mankind,” ...

BRIDGEPORT — It wasn’t just the rockets screaming death or the enemy lying in wait that worried Marines. In the barracks there were the rats whose bites on your ankles would waken you from a deep ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The arrival at Da Nang was uneventful. One of the planes was slightly damaged by ...