In December team Darkhorse volunteers, together with the community of donors to our gift drive, helped bring Christmas cheer to more than 1500 Marines and their families. For the second year,
– a look back and forward By Karen Robbins FAMILY DAY: Thank you to everyone who donated backpacks and gift cards so that Team Darkhorse could provide essential back to
Memorial Day our mission is to honor and remember the fallen, in an effort to bring a measure of comfort to their loved ones and the Marine Corps brothers they
Over the years, one of our great rewards has been getting to know some of the young men who served with 3/5 during their combat deployment to Afghanistan. Because of the
Walk onto St Nicholas Catholic Church on any Monday morning and ask to be pointed toward the meeting place for the Sewing Club ladies. You will be directed to a small
When the family readiness officer of 3rdBattalion let us know that a family day on base was planned, and asked if we could help provide the food we happily complied. The
By Karen Robbins Bringing our community together to support Laguna Hills’ adopted Marine Battalion reinforces one’s faith in the goodness of people, kindness of strangers and proof that having purpose matters. The
The wives of the Battalion support each other by creating “welcome baby baskets”, and generous citizens in our city help make those baskets bountiful. Heidelberg Pastry Shop has a diaper
During his second deployment, Sergeant Spivey was serving with the United States Marine Corps (DarkHorse Battalion) when he was injured by an improvised explosive device in December 2010. He lost
The man on the left (Owen Litfin) had served as an enlisted infantry Marine during the Vietnam war. It had been 7 years since he left the service, and two