During his time in South Vietnam, Steve Haakenson jumped out of helicopters and inched through tunnels in pursuit of an ...
Kenneth Calhoun remembers the moment he decided to be a Marine. His father moved the family from the coal mines of Tarentum, Pa., to Indianapolis, where Calhoun belonged to his high school’s ROTC. A ...
David Rodriguez scored his second goal of the game in the 106th minute and Atletico Ottawa won the Canadian Premier League’s ...
Retired Army Captain Gary Michael "Mike" Rose, 71, received the Medal of Honor Monday for his heroism as a combat medic during a harrowing secret mission into Laos in 1970.
Vietnam War veteran Maj. James Capers Jr. receives Patriot Awards honor for saving seven Marines in combat. The 88-year-old ...
Fifty-five miles north of Saigon, at a critical road junction in Phuoc Long Province, 11 American Green Berets were settling ...
Hollister native and United States Army veteran of the Vietnam War Greg Richardson, a member of the Haliwa-Saponi Tribe, ...
Why did you enter the military? I am a third-generation soldier. My father was drafted to Vietnam as an infantry platoon ...
We have been following Marland Burckhardt, a Russell High School graduate who married his Russell sweetheart in college and began an Army career focused on Military Intelligence and Special Forces ...
Smith served with the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, known as the Blackhorse Regiment. Their mission was to find enemy forces, often deep in hostile territory, and destroy them. Days were spent in the ...
We’re going in.” At dawn on July 23, 1970, operations began to evacuate Fire Support Base Ripcord, in the A Shau Valley of ...
The Battle of Ia Drang in 1965 marked the first major clash between U.S. forces and the North Vietnamese Army during the ...