(CNN) — The US Marine Corps is no stranger to firing live ordnance as part of training, but it had been years — more than 70, according to one US official — since Marines had fired artillery over a ...
Oct. 20 (UPI) --An artillery shell fired during a Marine Corps demonstration on Saturday detonated prematurely over California's Interstate 5, striking a California Highway Patrol vehicle with debris, ...
Marines didn’t give any prior warning before firing more than two dozen artillery rounds over a busy freeway in a rehearsal for last weekend’s Marine Corps birthday celebration at Camp Pendleton.
I spent 14 years in the U.S. military. My period of service, 2003-2017, covered its most active era in recent memory. Facing enemies in Iraq and Afghanistan, working with allies in the Pacific and in ...