Story by Maj. Jeremy Kline | 2nd Mobile Brigade, 25th Infantry Division | 04.30.2025
Fort Magsaysay, Luzon, Philippines - On a balmy morning in Central Luzon, the thunder of marching boots echoed through the grounds of Fort Magsaysay as Soldiers from both the United States Army and the Philippine Army took part in an 8.3-mile road march to honor the 83rd anniversary of the Bataan Death March. The event served as a powerful tribute to the bravery, resilience, and enduring......
Story by Joseph Siemandel | Joint Force Headquarters - Washington National Guard | 04.11.2025
Seven members of the Washington Army National Guard’s Medical Detachment honor the memory of those who endured one of the most harrowing ordeals of World War II: the Bataan Death March....
Story by Maj. India Hunter | 364th Expeditionary Sustainment Command | 04.05.2025
The resounding toll of ceremonial bells echoed through San Francisco’s National Cemetery Saturday, marking 83 years since thousands of American and Filipino Soldiers suffered through the Bataan Death March. Each toll honored those who died during one of World War II’s most brutal chapters....
Story by Petty Officer 2nd Class Matthew Brown | USS Bataan (LHD 5) | 08.01.2023
“It was around June or July, I had just got off of watch so it was maybe 8 p.m.,” said Damage Controlman (DC) 2nd Class Jose Perez-Ortiz, a damage control fireman and member of the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD 5) at-sea fire party during the ship’s 2019 deployment. “The ship had just gotten out of the Suez Canal transit and we were on a straight shot home. I......
Story by Petty Officer 2nd Class Matthew Brown | USS Bataan (LHD 5) | 07.14.2023
The Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD 5) has many areas located on the ship with historically rich nomenclatures, one example is located in an offshoot room on the ship’s mess decks, called the Abucay Café....
Story by Petty Officer 2nd Class Matthew Brown | USS Bataan (LHD 5) | 04.28.2023
The Bataan Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) and 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) concluded its pre-deployment ARG MEU exercise (ARGMEUEX) May 1....
Story by Petty Officer 2nd Class Matthew Brown | USS Bataan (LHD 5) | 01.29.2023
An engine is commonly known as the centerpiece of many machines… just as integral its surrounding components as the heart is to the human body....
Story by Chief Petty Officer Justin Ailes | USS Bataan (LHD 5) | 12.15.2020
Bataan Celebrates the Holidays By Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Levi Decker PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD 5) held a Morale, Welfare, and Recreation (MWR) holiday raffle, Dec. 9-11. In order to maintain social distancing mitigations, the raffle took the place of a traditional command holiday party....
