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When Ralph Puckett was chosen to lead a new Ranger company in 1950, he said a prayer: "Dear God, don't let me get a bunch of guys -- good guys -- killed." In late November 1950, the then-Army ...

Former President Donald Trump rankled many U.S. service members and veterans at a recent campaign event where he compared the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the Medal of Honor. “When we gave her the ...

A ribbon bar in the National Air and Space Museum’s collection offers a timeline of the famed aviator’s illustrious military career Reilly Tifft How do you begin to summarize Brigadier General Charles ...

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The Department of Defense recently reinstated a campaign medal for troops serving in Iraq but not, apparently, because of the recent upswing in drone and rocket attacks on bases there. The Pentagon ...

In 1970, during the Vietnam War, Sgt. Mitchell William Stout, an air defense artillery soldier, gave his life saving his comrades from a grenade. For his actions he would be awarded the Medal of Honor ...

WASHINGTON — Eighty years after they used elaborate trickery to deceive enemy armies about the true size and location of American forces, the surviving members of World War II’s Ghost Army soaked up ...

A US Army uniform jacket (a) with service medals and pins (b-g) worn by Charles J. Blackwood as a Major in World War II. The single-breasted jacket (a) is made from a dark olive green wool fabric and ...

WASHINGTON - In 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt awarded the Medals of Honor to Pvt. Simon Harris and Pvt. James W. McIntyre for their actions in the American-Philippine War. Senator (now Governor) ...