In the fall of 2010 Marines from Camp Pendleton’s 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment deployed to Sangin. The battalion’s seven months in southwestern Afghanistan were the bloodiest of the war, ...

U.S. Marines with the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment and 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, ...

1st Lt. Robert M. Kelly, U.S. Marine Corps, was the son of White House chief of staff John Kelly. But as a Marine infantry officer, 1st Lt. Kelly would want us to remember the men who fought and died ...

A Camp Pendleton marine has lost his life while fighting the war in Afghanistan. Lance Cpl. Kenneth Corzine, 23, of Bethalto, Ill., was the 22nd Marine from the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment to ...

The Mt. Soledad National Veterans Memorial is honoring U.S. Marines killed in the Battle of Sangin in Afghanistan in 2010 and 2011. The Third Battalion, Fifth Marine Regiment, known as “Darkhorse,” ...

LAGUNA HILLS — A plan to create a permanent monument for Camp Pendleton’s 3rd Battalion/5th Marines — a unit Laguna Hills adopted in 2008 — is moving forward. The battalion, known as Darkhorse, is ...

LAGUNA HILLS — Maj. Joe Patterson stood by his custom-designed motorcycle dedicated to 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines — the Darkhorse Battalion. The bike’s fender and gas tank are covered with the names ...

A slimmer, more senior and technology-driven Marine infantry battalion structure now unfolding across the service will shape the deployments, careers and lives of future riflemen, the most essential ...

CAMP PENDLETON — In the predawn chill of Saturday morning, Anna Plank of Huntington Beach was here to see her 21-year-old son, Marine Cpl. Jason Plank, begin the trip back to Iraq for his third tour ...