During that period, Simmons was the first sergeant of Company B, 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, Regimental Combat Team 8, 2nd Marine Division (Forward), II Marine Expeditionary Force, in support in ...

His unit was heading to Fallujah, Iraq, to help quell an uprising. He was assigned to 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division, based at Camp Pendleton, Calif. Growing up in the working ...

On June 2, 2011, Staff Sgt. Christopher Shranko was deployed to Sangin, Afghanistan as a platoon sergeant with 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, when his platoon’s overwatch element came under heavy ...

(Sgt. Courtney White, USMC) U.S. Marines with Company A, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, disembark from an amphibious combat vehicle during an integrated training exercise at Marine Corps Air ...

The two riflemen, who were assigned to 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division at Camp Pendleton, allegedly smuggled three undocumented immigrants for financial gain, according to ...

The unit turned over command in Sangin on April 11 to another Camp Pendleton unit from the “Fighting Fifth”: the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment. The last of the 3/5 Marines returned home ...

Owens was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, Camp Pendleton, Calif. Cpl. Armando Ariel Gonzalez, 25, of Hileah, Fla., was killed April 14 in a non-hostile ...

Infantry from the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines and members of the 3rd Amphibian Assault Battalion participated in the multi-week course. The program was designed to make sure Marines didn’t move ...

Crilly is currently attached to Marines and sailors with Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, who are training for deployment. MARINE CORPS AIR GROUND COMBAT CENTER TWENTYNINE PALMS, ...