"Morning was always a welcome sight to us. It meant two things. The first was that we were still alive. . . ." In 1967, death was the constant companion of the

“It’s not easy to stay alive with a $1,000 bounty on your head.” In 1967, a bullet cost thirteen cents, and no one gave Uncle Sam a bigger bang for his bu

In 1967, Operation Tuscaloosa sent 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, into the hostile Song Thu Bon valley. Their mission--to exterminate the Viet Cong. But a sandbar

In 1991 Chuck Mawhinney was reluctantly dragged out of anonymity when it was revealed that he held the record among United States Marine Corps snipers with over