Marine Corps: Filling the Gap
June 13, 2024
June 13, 2024
MARINE CORPS RECRUIT DEPOT PARRIS ISLAND, South Carolina, June 13 -- The U.S. Marine Corps issued the following official news:
By Lance Cpl. William Horsley, Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island
On Oct. 23, 1983, Cpl. Dan Kovach was manning Checkpoint 8, a small outpost near the bullet ridden American University Library building in Beirut, when he heard a loud explosion.
Kovach, an infantryman with Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, saw . . .
By Lance Cpl. William Horsley, Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island
On Oct. 23, 1983, Cpl. Dan Kovach was manning Checkpoint 8, a small outpost near the bullet ridden American University Library building in Beirut, when he heard a loud explosion.
Kovach, an infantryman with Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, saw . . .