In this March 3, 1967, file photo, U.S. Marines hug the ground in high grass on hill 162, position of the 1st Battalion, 9th Marines next to a 81 mm mortar while North Vietnamese mortar crews ...

Marines with BSRF-14 make some noise in the Carpathian Mountains. Marines with BSRF-14 make some noise in the Carpathian Mountains. 1st Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment Patrol. 1/9 Bravo Company ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Convention Center billboard asks people to pray for the Marines that will killed in Hawthorne, Nev. on Tuesday March 19, 2013. Military officials say a mortar shell explosion killed seven ...

Lance Cpl. Joshua C. Taylor, 21, of Marietta, Ohio, was a mortarman assigned to 1st Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment. He joined the Marine Corps in June 2010 and was promoted to his current rank in ...

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 ...

“It is obviously a huge honor to be awarded the Bronze Star, but the real heroes are the Marines and Sailors of 1st Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment,” said Salka.

William Pimentel was born in Eureka and joined the Marine Corps — Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 9th Marines — in Camp Pendleton in Oceanside for boot camp. Pimentel was shipped to Camp ...

The explosion occurred as Marines with Alpha Company of 1st Battalion, 9th Marines, out of Camp Lejeune, N.C., were conducting live-fire training with 60-mm mortars at Hawthorne Army Depot the ...

The squad — two Marines from 1st Battalion, 9th Marines; a two-man artillery forward observer team; and Sauer — were thrown together for the mission that followed an attack of mortars that had ...