Storied Camp Pendleton Marine Unit Examines Its Legacy In Afghanistan

With the U.S. war in Afghanistan coming to an end, the Dark Horse Battalion will go down as the Marine unit which suffered the highest percentage of casualties during the 20-year war.

The group of Marines from Camp Pendleton are still trying to reconcile their legacy, a decade after they returned home.

By the time the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment left Helmand Province in April 2011, they came back with 184 wounded Marines, 34 of them amputees, then there were the 25 dead. Among them, the son of Four Star Marine Gen. John Kelly: 1st Lt. Robert Kelly was killed when he stepped on a landmine in November 2010.