The Los Angeles Times covers the price paid by US Marines during the difficult campaign in Sangin: When the Marines of the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, deployed to the Sangin district of ...

Read CNN’s Haditha Killings Fast Facts and learn more about the 2005 killings of 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq.

F ellow U.S. Marines and military historians know Col. Robert D. Taplett best for his valor during the Korean War. On Sept. 15, 1950, Taplett, commanding the 3rd Battalion of the 5th Marine ...

After training on Parris Island, South Carolina, in December 1951 and Camp Pendleton, California, in March 1952, he was assigned to Company I, 3rd Battalion ... that the 5th Marines were ordered ...

Suspicion falls on Marines from Kilo Company of the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment. March 19, 2006 - Time.com first publishes the allegations of the killings. The story also runs in the March ...