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(Command Sergeat Major) CSM Thomas Patrick Payne will receive the Medal of Honor on September 11, 2020 for a raid in Iraq in 2015 that rescued 70 hostages of ISIS. We wrote about the raid at [...]

Young Army Cpl Hershey Miyamura was a hero whose exploits were a closely guarded secret during the Korean War. Why? Because releasing them would have cost him his life as he languished in a POW [...]

Master Sergeant Roy Benavidez was a Green Beret in the 5th Special Forces Group who received the Medal Of Honor for his actions on May 2, 1968 in Vietnam. Even though critically wounded at least [...]

Today, March 29th is National Vietnam Veterans Day. On this day, one legendary Medal of Honor recipient from the Vietnam War, Command Sgt Maj Bennie Adkins, 86, lies in a hospital bed, battling [...]

Master Sergeant Matthew Williams will be given the Medal of Honor by President Trump on October 30. The active duty Green Beret will become the second member of the Special Forces team to receive [...]

James Okubo was just one of 120,000 Japanese Americans that were sent to internment camps in WWII. He was attending the Western Washington College of Education to be a dentist, when he was forced [...]

Marine Gunnery Sgt John Canley served several tours during the Vietnam War between 1965 and 1970. He was part of Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division. He will [...]

Of the 3,517 Medal of Honor recipients, only 29 so far have been awarded to Native Americans, in spite of the fact that Native Americans have one of the highest enlistment and service rates of [...]

Operation Tailwind took place in Laos September 11-14, 1970. Capt Gary Rose (Ret.) was serving as a medic assigned to the 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne). The company was inserted deep inside [...]

On August 7, 1942 US Marines seemed to land virtually unopposed on Guadalcanal. But it took six months to defeat the Japanese troops on the island. They fought their way into the history books in [...]