U.S. Marines fold a flag during a funeral ceremony in November 2008. (Cpl. Anthony Ortiz/U.S. Marine Corps) A Marine veteran who died of cancer on the eve of the Corps’ 250th birthday won his battle ...

Back in 2007, when most of his high school friends were thinking about college, Tony Wilson had other plans in mind. He was pondering life in the U.S. Marine Corps. Wilson, of Fort Worth, Texas, was ...

The Marine Corps family lost one of its own when veteran Steven M. Lipscomb, who had survived a roadside bomb while serving in Iraq, was killed trying to save a crew of coal miners in West Virginia.