U.S. Marines at a forward command post in the city of Huế, during the Battle of Huế, Vietnam War, February 1968. (Terry Fincher/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) In the 1920s a small company ...
After nearly eighty years of continuous service, in March 2020 the Marine Corps announced it planned to retire its three remaining tank battalions in a bid to re-model the force for a great-power ...
A U.S. Marine with 2d Tank Battalion, 2d Marine Division, prepares to depart from a tank lot on Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, July 27, 2020. (Lance Cpl. Patrick King/Marine Corps) One year ago, the ...
The U.S. Marine Corps is eliminating all of its tanks and most of its artillery to become a smaller, lighter force. The Marines are shifting towards the ability to seize small islands in the South ...
Tanks, the armored cavalry — it's a division commonly associated with the army, but that wasn't the only branch of the armed forces to use tanks. The United States Marine Corps has worked alongside ...
The end of the Marine Corps' tank missions has officially begun. Marines with 1st Tank Battalion recently watched the last of their unit's tanks depart Twentynine Palms, California. Photos taken of ...
After more than 100 years since the first tanks rolled into action during the Battle of the Somme in the First World War, the tank continues to evolve, but it is unlikely that these metal behemoths ...
U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Sean Goode, an infantry unit leader with 3d Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, observes a training area at Combined Arms Training Center, Camp Fuji, Japan on Jan. 22, 2021.
If there’s one thing we can probably all agree on it’s that it is a terrible idea to pick a fight with a robot tank equipped with a .50-caliber machine gun. That’s something that the U.S. Marine Corp ...