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Robert Lodge
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A pilot went down in Vietnam to protect secrets. Will he get the Medal of Honor?

By Jeff Schogol

Posted on Oct 21, 2025

Julia Moore watches Lt. Gen. Hal Moore at his retirement ceremony in 1977.
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Fort Moore could come back as Congress considers base name changes

By Drew F. Lawrence

Posted on Sep 22, 2025

Japes Capers
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A legendary Marine doesn’t have the Medal of Honor. Veterans want to change that.

By Jeff Schogol

Posted on Aug 8, 2025

A Combined Action Program Marine and a Navy corpsman using diesel fuel to burn the human waste from Combined Action unit Papa Three's outhouse in Cam Hieu village, Quang Tri Province, Vietnam, on September 20, 1967. (Photo by Ed Palm Photo/Getty Images)
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Federal watchdog calls out lack of research on burn pits in Vietnam

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Aug 7, 2025

In June 1969, 74 U.S. sailors died when the USS Frank E. Evans, a Navy destroyer, sunk off the coast of Vietnam. When the Vietnam Memorial Wall was dedicated in 1982, family members and surviving crew were stunned to find the names of the lost sailors were not included.
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Why aren’t the names of these 74 sailors on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall?

By Matt White

Posted on May 26, 2025

United State Marines among the ruins of a house that was levelled by Marines who determined that Communists were taking refuge inside, in Hue, Vietnam, 15th February 1968. (Photo by Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)
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Marine awarded Navy Cross at Vietnam War’s Battle of Hue remembered as ‘magnificent,’ humble leader

By Matt White

Posted on Feb 23, 2025

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Little an electrician with Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response-Africa, applies a tourniquet to a simulated casualty during a combat lifesaver course at Naval Air Station Sigonella, Italy, August 4, 2016. During the four-day course, Marines learned to recognize injuries, perform the appropriate procedures and control the patient to prolong survivability until help arrives. U.S. Marines and Sailors assigned to Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Africa Command support operations, contingencies and security cooperation in the U.S. Africa Command area of responsibility. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Alexander Mitchell)
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This Navy SEAL doctor is a big reason US troops carry tourniquets in combat today

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Jan 14, 2025

The Navy will name a guided-missile destroyer for Senator Robert Kerrey, the first Navy SEAL awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam.
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Navy names new destroyer for Senator who was first SEAL awarded Medal of Honor

By Matt White

Posted on Jan 7, 2025

A composite of two men in military uniform. Both are wearing hats.
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These 2 soldiers will receive the Medal of Honor for their heroism in Vietnam

By Jeff Schogol

Posted on Jan 3, 2025

An American medical evacuation 'dustoff' helicopter takes aboard a casualty during operations in the jungle.
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Forefathers of modern MEDEVAC crews flew through hell for their soldiers in Vietnam

By Joshua Skovlund

Posted on Nov 1, 2024

National Museum of the Marine Corps
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Garbage, PowerPoint, combat: Father and son revisit their wars at Marine Corps museum

By Jeff Schogol

Posted on Oct 30, 2024

Female Marines perform their duties as traffic controllers during the Korean War. During the war, women were encouraged to take on more roles in different military occupations than before to free up more men for combat.
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Women kicked out of military for pregnancy could get $25,000, VA health care under bill

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Sep 24, 2024

Cpl. Daniel Heller after receiving the Navy Cross.
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Vietnam Marine vet awarded Navy Cross 55 years after saving Marines while wounded

By Joshua Skovlund

Posted on Aug 29, 2024

Paul Bucha, Medal of Honor recipient in fierce jungle battle, dies at 80
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Paul Bucha, Medal of Honor recipient in fierce jungle battle, dies at 80

Posted on Aug 2, 2024

William Calley
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William Calley, dead at 80, still used in Army lessons about preventing war crimes like the My Lai Massacre

By Jeff Schogol

Posted on Jul 30, 2024

The christening ceremony for the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Patrick Gallagher. (photo courtesy U.S. Navy)
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Navy christens new destroyer named for Navy Cross recipient

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Jul 28, 2024