Story by Lance Cpl. William Horsley | Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island | 06.05.2024
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 Marines Regiment, saw two large mushroom clouds in the sky coming from the direction of the Battalion Landing Team barracks nearly a mile away. The......
Courtesy Story | Marine Corps Installations East | 10.21.2020
This year marks the 37th anniversary of the attack and the ceremony will be held virtually due to COVID-19. For the safety and wellbeing of the public and those conducting the ceremony, the memorial site will be closed to the public for the first time....
Story by Sgt. Dani Debehets | U.S. Army Europe and Africa | 08.11.2020
The 21st Theater Sustainment Command coordinated the movement of 21 pallets of supplies from the Netherlands to Ramstein Air Base, Germany, where members of the 86th Logistics Readiness Squadron, 721st Aerial Port Squadron and 1st Air and Space Communications Operations Squadron downloaded, prepared and loaded the nearly 12,000 pounds of supplies onto a U.S. Air Force C-130....
Story by Tech. Sgt. Michael Battles | 379th Air Expeditionary Wing | 08.07.2020
In a joint endeavor to assist the Lebanese Armed Forces and the people of Lebanon, Soldiers and Airmen stationed in Qatar worked to load the first U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III with humanitarian aid Aug. 6, 2020....
Story by Heather Rutherford | Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR) | 07.02.2019
On the morning of Oct. 23, 1983, a suicide bomber crashed a truck loaded with 2,000 pounds of explosives into U.S. Marine barracks at the Beirut International Airport in Lebanon. After the devastating blast, little was left of the four-story building that housed hundreds of United States service members. Among the fallen were 220 Marines, 18 Sailors and three Soldiers....
Story by Cpl. Mary Carmona | Marine Corps Installations East | 10.23.2014
The four-story, steel-reinforced concrete building started out as their home away from home.
Story by Cpl. James Smith | II Marine Expeditionary Force | 10.23.2014
It’s a place of serene peace, far removed in time and space from the events that gave it birth. But even three decades later, the single granite wall and surrounding gardens at the Beirut Memorial are filled with living memories....
Story by Cpl. Martin Egnash | Marine Corps Installations East | 10.28.2013
In 1983, the Marine Barracks in Beirut was attacked by a suicide bomber. Two hundred forty one Marines, soldiers and Sailors lost their lives in the attack. To educate Marines about this fateful day, Marine Corps Air Station New River hosted a professional military education (PME) event, Oct. 18, about the bombing of the Marine Barracks in Beirut....
