On a warm Sunday in April, Gunnery Sgt. Christopher Goad was cruising along a California state highway, slicing through farmland and small desert mountain towns, and listening to the engines roar on ...
In May 2022, Marine Gunnery Sgt. Benjamin Frazier was driving across a bridge in Virginia when he saw a young man on the bridge’s ledge. He also saw that a woman was trying to talk to the man, while ...
When Justin Kelley left the Air Force in 2015, he was an E-5 – a staff sergeant in the service’s rank structure. But when he graduated Marine Corps boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina, on ...
The Marine veterans who would follow their gunnery sergeant anywhere followed him Saturday to the San Diego Harbor two years after he died of prostate cancer. Wearing caps that said, “John L. Canley,” ...
On Oct. 12, 2010, Gunnery Sgt. Glen Silva was the operations chief on foot patrol with the 1st Battalion, 8th U.S. Marines serving in Afghanistan, when he stepped on a 20-pound improvised explosive ...
There’s a reason the USS John L. Canley carries the motto, “Courage Under Fire.” His name is Gunny. The new Navy ship’s namesake, the Medal of Honor-winning Marine from Oxnard, never ducked and rarely ...
John Lee Canley, a Marine Corps gunnery sergeant who was belatedly awarded the Medal of Honor in 2018 for his actions in the Battle of Hue during the 1968 Tet Offensive in Vietnam, died Wednesday. He ...
Marine Gunnery Sgt. Christopher Goad, left, a powerline division chief with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 314, Marine Aircraft Group 11, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, is awarded the Navy and Marine Corps ...