The picture, by AP photographer Julie Jacobson, showed Lance Cpl. Joshua “Bernie” Bernard, 21, lying on the ground with severe leg injuries after being struck by a grenade in an ambush on Aug. 14, his ...

Peter Frazier, an operations researcher at Cornell University, stands at the university campus in Ithaca, N.Y., March 26, 2026. Frazier's lab at Cornell worked to improve how blood was stored and ...

Marines from Company A, 1st Battalion, 9th Marines during Operation Prairie II near the DMZ in 1967. The “Walking Dead” battalion earned the highest casualty rate in Marine Corps history during 47 ...

More than 25 Camp Lejeune Marines were wounded in a friendly fire incident near An Nasiriyah in southern Iraq, and eight Marines from North Carolina bases are listed as missing. The Department of ...

Bullets whizzed by Cpl. Daniel “Duke” Heller as he rescued wounded Marines who’d been trapped in a North Vietnamese Army ambush in the A Shau Valley, Vietnam, on Feb. 13, 1969. Despite being wounded ...

We first met Joe Dan Worley 20 years ago, along with his mother, wife Angel, and a three-month-old daughter, at Walter Reed Hospital outside Washington. A medic rushing to the aid of wounded Marines ...

When Yen Soto got ready to heave the solid iron shotput, she gave it all she had. The mother of four and now medically retired Marine major eyed her competition, whom she described as “all built ...