The Marines will rename several special operations units as Marine Raiders at a ceremony Friday, resurrecting a moniker made famous by World War II units that carried out risky amphibious and ...

LODI -- Corporal Frank S. Wright, 98, will proudly tell you that he quit high school in 1942 to join the military during World War II. The Lodi veteran said he chose the Marines for one simple reason.

The group was officially named the Marine Raiders in 2015 to link its heritage to World War II commando units made famous in movies. The Raiders' command now has about 2,700 troops, including ...

'"The Raiders are revered in Marine Corps history as the first U.S. special operations forces. They worked behind enemy lines in the Pacific during World War II.Like many of the greatest ...

Harold “Bub” Sheffield, one of the last surviving original Marine Raiders from World War II and a longtime Bristol resident, died over the weekend, family members confirmed Tuesday.

If Marines are expeditionary warfare pros, then the Marine Raiders are the Corps’ experts, and then some: The raiders of World War II, and their successors today, are an elite unit designed to ...

Harold "Bub" Sheffield (right) worked to install a monument to the Marine Raiders of World War II at the New Hampshire State Veterans Cemetery in Boscawen. The New Hampshire Veterans Cemetery in ...

The original “Marine Raiders” were Calrson’s Raiders of WWII, a special operations unit who, under the command of their namesake, Lt. Colonel Evans Fordyce Carlson, gained fame for their ...

Bob Graham, a decorated World War II veteran who died this month with ... Guadalcanal and Bougainville as a member of the elite Marine Raiders. Following the war he returned to New York state ...

But as the proud son of a World War II Marine, I would be remiss if I didn’t include the “Devil Dogs” component of SOCOM, the ...