It was nearly 12 years ago when an MV-22 Osprey Rotor Aircraft crashed at the Marana Regional Airport and burst into flames, killing 19 Marine…
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John Wayne. More specifically, watching legendary actor John Wayne up on the movie screen, playing a Marine who uses his teeth to pull the pin…
June 30 was a rather normal day for the Marines and sailors of the advisor team attached to the Afghan National Army’s 6th Kandak, 2nd Brigade…
Flowers sit next to the commemorative plaque that names the 19 U.S. Marines killed in the Nighthawk 72 Osprey aircraft crash of April 8, 2000,…
J.D. Fitzgerald/ Special to the Explorer, Tom Duke of Tempe places a rose on the plaque for Nighthawk 72 crash victims at Marana Regional Airp…
J.D. Fitzgerald/ Special to the Explorer, Veterans of Foreign Wars members hold up flags Saturday at the memorial of the Osprey crash that kil…
J.D. Fitzgerald/ Special to the Explorer, Flowers sit next to the commemorative plaque that names the 19 U.S. Marines killed in the Nighthawk …
J.D. Fitzgerald/ Special to the Explorer, Mike Flynn, senior vice commandant of the Marana Nighthawk 72 Marine Corps League Detachment, opened…
Just in time for Veterans Day, Marine Sgt. Andrew Valora went to an Oro Valley elementary school last week to give his thanks for a classroom'…
Randy Metcalf/The Explorer, Marine Sgt. Andrew Valora walks towards students putting on a surprise party for him at Copper Creek Elementary Sc…