Karl Smith, a Muskegon High School grad, enlisted for the military when he was 17 years old and still in school. On Wednesday ...

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - “I don’t want the interview today to be about me. I was a combat engineer, but I was not in the ...

When Ron “Curly” Albrecht graduated from high school at Waverly-Shell Rock in the early ’70s he did not want to stay on the ...

Monroe County is honoring those who made countless sacrifices serving in the Vietnam War. Local veterans received the Vietnam ...

Despite being the Marion County Sheriff’s Office Cold Case Unit’s newest member, Frank Iervolino has an impressive history in civilian and military ...

The reality is that the Army has some tough decisions ahead—we must prioritize resources towards those functions which are ...

As a volunteer cave digger, Takamatsu Gushiken has unearthed the remains of several hundred people killed in one of the ...

Last January, my column highlighted the Vietnam-era Medal of Honor awarded to Army Staff Sgt. Glenn English Jr., who grew up at the Blair County Children’s Home at Williamsburg, a facility for ...

We have been learning about Karl Porisch, who graduated from Mankato State College in 1968 and completed Marine Corps officer and helicopter flight training. The Marine Corps assigned him to Okinawa, ...

Nearly a decade later, he deployed with the 101st Airborne Division, his father’s old unit, during the Vietnam War, but the course of his military career changed forever after he switched to the ...

From the Revolutionary War to World War II ... Order No. 9981 finally integrated the United States Army, but it was not until Vietnam that Black and white soldiers truly became accustomed to ...