FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. — It was March 12, 1971, in northern Vietnam’s Quin Tri, when the gun truck, “Proud American,” was struck by two B40 shoulder-fired rockets, destroying the vehicle, killing the ...
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He was a helicopter pilot they called “Combat Kelly,” and in the early years of the Vietnam War, Maj. Charles Kelly set the example for the daredevil flyers who would come to be called Army “Dustoff” ...
President Joe Biden on Friday posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor to five minority soldiers from the Korean War who may have been denied the nation's highest decoration for valor by a 1950s Army ...
A Vietnam war veteran warns Australia’s unsung military heroes will be forgotten, and veterans will be “silenced”, under ...
Vietnam War medevac helicopter crews will be the latest military group to receive the highest award Congress can bestow. The Dustoff Crews of the Vietnam War Congressional Gold Medal Act won final ...
More than half a century later, 14 soldiers of Bravo Company were formally awarded Bronze Star Medals for their actions in ...
WASHINGTON — Debbie McKnight did not want her father, Capt. Hugh Nelson Jr., to go to Vietnam. “As a 5-year-old, I remember him lifting me up in my grandparents’ house. And I told him not to go ...
Bob Nevins hugs on of his Alliance180 therapeutic horse in Galway. Former Army Chief Warrant Officer Bob Nevins of Galway is among a group of Army veteran medical evacuation helicopter crew members ...
Richard Cavazos' name is already recognized across the U.S. Army. He forged a path through service in Korea and Vietnam to become the first Hispanic four-star general, leading to a legacy that ...
LEBANON COUNTY, Pa. — In observance of Purple Heart Day, Pennsylvania Treasurer Stacy Garrity returned a Purple Heart Medal to the son of a late Vietnam War Veteran. Joined by Senator Chris Gebhard (R ...