The M777 is, at four tons, the lightest 155mm towed howitzer ever fielded. A crew of five fires regular rounds to 24 kilometers and RAP rocket assisted projectiles to 40 kilometers. M777 fire control ...
On Nov. 11, pockets of rain showers eased up to open the skies for Goose Creek’s annual Veteran’s Day celebration. The event ...
Native Americans have served in or supported the Army since Colonial times, and Maj. Gen. Douglas S. Lowrey says he and the ...
Richard Nowakowski, from Town Bank, never thought he would be the first man to jump out of the plane, but there he was, ...
I was just a little kid, but I remember him coming down the gangway at my grandmother’s house in his uniform on leave and he ...
Leading the parades would be the High School band playing patriotic songs followed by the World War I guys. At the time, the Great War vets were probably only 67 or 68 years old, but their faces ...
Smigliani is a truly courageous man. He was wounded five times during his service in Vietnam and is a four-time Purple Heart ...
From February to May of 1964, John attended the Field Artillery Officers’ Basic Course ... the 2nd Infantry Division landed John his second Battalion S-3 assignment. John next went to war-torn Vietnam ...
Since 2003, over 400,903 quilts have been awarded to those who have served. “A Quilt of Valor says in a way that words cannot ...
These men, their capture and the fate of what became the “Lost Battalion” became one of the most harrowing stories of Texas ...
When thinking about the Vietnam War, what comes to mind? Perhaps it is the sights and smells of napalm or the harrowing ...
Joe Gamm/News Tribune Charlie Bernskoetter, who served with a field artillery battalion during the Korean War, watches and ...