Marines take cover to fight off an ambush by the North Vietnamese Army. A claymore mine explosion minutes earlier cost the life of the platoon sergeant of Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 9th Marines.

Now the 1st Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment, which also saw action in Iraq and Afghanistan, has been deactivated during a ceremony Friday at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina.

The deactivation of 2/9 followed that of 1st Battalion, 9th Marines in August 2014 and 3rd Battalion, 9th Marines in July 2013.

As a part of the Operation Enduring Freedom deployment cycle, 1st Battalion, 9th Marines, also an organic battalion of the 8th Marine Regiment, recently returned home from Helmand Province ...

Lt. Col. Andrew McNulty, commander of 1st Battalion, 9th Marines, the battalion’s Alpha Company commander Capt. Kelby Breivogel and the battalion’s infantry weapons officer Chief Warrant ...

CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan – Infantry Marines stationed at Patrol Base Boldak with Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment, have few luxuries while patrolling an area in ...

Con Thien Valley, Vietnam, May 16, 1967: Alpha Company of the 1st Battalion, 9th Marines, supported by tanks, moves out on a platoon-sized sweep. Attacked by North Vietnamese Army troops, the ...

Commanding officer of the 1st Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment will be reassigned Seven Marines were killed in a mortar range accident in March Marines statement says system appeared to work properly ...

The Marines — assigned to 1st Battalion, 9th Marines, based in Camp Lejeune, N.C. — were training at Hawthorne Army Depot, Nev. on March, 18 when the explosion killed the seven Marines and ...

They were assigned to 1st Battalion, 9th Marines, out of Camp Lejeune, Marine Corps Times has learned.

In 2011, Michael Haft, who grew up summers on Nantucket, was in Afghanistan, a weapons platoon commander with the 1st Battalion, 9th Marines, nicknamed “The Walking Dead.” Haft emailed his ...