Vietnam War

Semper Fi, Sgt. Maj. Canley

After more than $1 billion spent in development, a small price to pay?

Some soldiers referred to them as "McNamara's Morons."

Watson Baldwin, in the middle of the clearing, gazed skyward and spread opens his arms to guide the helicopter in to receive help from above.

Lieutenant Dan, photos!

A Marine recounts how one two-minute experience 54 years ago in the jungles of Vietnam changed his life forever.

“It was all about the hunt, not the killing,” according to his own words. 

Robin Olds personified the hard-fighting, hard-living, no-nonsense pilots who made the US Air Force the worlds most lethal and effective air service on earth.

An M16, letters to a girl, fear, pride, love. He's left some burdens behind in exchange for others.

"While we have many enemies of this country today who want to see us fall, there’s no greater enemy in my opinion than ourselves."

“I said, ‘Chickie Donohue, what the hell are you doing here?’ He said, ‘I came to bring you a beer.'”

After his aircraft was hit by an enemy mortar round, John Levitow saved his entire aircrew from certain death.

"What a pointless waste of a remarkable young man’s life—and in a war with no light at the end of the tunnel."

"Sims made the greatest sacrifice a soldier can make … and no mark of tribute can be too great.”

His commander said he "showed as much cold courage as any human I've ever heard of."

Upbeat talk of Afghan forces being “better than we thought they were” may soon be put to the test.

Legend.

"SGM Macias exemplified the Special Forces ethos."

Miller’s take on Ford’s role in the war’s end bears no resemblance to reality.

"I fired at the bandit until it ballooned to 3 times in intensity then suddenly disappeared from my radar."

Tom Hardy will embrace his third major military role after Black Hawk Down and Dunkirk as he leads an ensemble cast in 'The Things They Carried', a new movie based on Pultizer Prize-finalist Tim O'Brien's short story collection of the same name about his experiences during Vietnam

"Militarism in America is in full bloom and promises a future of vigorous self-pollination."

“It was a 20th-century version of the Wild West frontier fortress."

Before 1970, women serving in the military were discharged for becoming mothers. This meant that pregnant women in uniform were forced to make a choice: Leave the military to become mothers or risk an illegal (and then-dangerous) abortion

Before 1970, women serving in the military were discharged for becoming mothers. This meant that pregnant women in uniform were forced to make a choice: Leave the military to become mothers or risk an illegal (and then-dangerous) abortion