General Alexander Vandegrift, commander of the 1st Marine Division, had been fighting the Japanese at Guadalcanal for over four months under less than desirable conditions: they were surrounded by the ...

South Korean and U.S. Marines have conducted a three-week combined arms and infantry exercise to enhance their joint ...

On the Pacific island of Guadalcanal in 1942, the famed 1st Marine Division — the oldest, largest and most decorated division of the U.S. Marine Corps — defeated Japanese forces in a turning ...

Answer: Although I was Marine Corps JAG, I was with the First Marine Division at Camp Pendleton. Our JAG team only did court martials. The JAG officers at Base Legal assisted Marines with civil ...

Twelve thousand men of the First Marine Division, along with a few thousand Army soldiers, suddenly found themselves surrounded, outnumbered and at risk of annihilation at the Chosin Reservoir ...