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LtCol Rob Riggle, USMC, Liberia, Kosovo, Afghanistan
You may know Rob Riggle best as a very successful actor and comedian, but he is also a 23-year veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps with three significan…
3 years, 5 months ago
CDR Frank Weisser, U.S. Navy, Iraq, Afghanistan, Blue Angels, 'Top Gun'
Frank Weisser entered the U.S. Naval Academy focused on becoming a Navy SEAL. But his superior officers informed hum he would be of greater value as …
3 years, 5 months ago
Capt. Richard Halferty, U.S. Navy, Korea
Richard Halferty was at college in Missouri when he learned that his brother had been killed while serving with the U.S. Army in Korea. As his parent…
3 years, 5 months ago
SCPO Michael Peyton, U.S. Navy SEAL, Afghanistan, Iraq
Michael Peyton grew up in a family with a legacy of military service. As a young man he joined the Navy for one simple reason: he wanted to be a SEAL…
3 years, 5 months ago
Pete Cannon, U.S. Army, Vietnam
Pete Cannon joined the U.S. Army shortly after graduating from high school in 1965. Soon he was training to fly a variety of helicopters and two year…
3 years, 6 months ago
Lt. Col. Tom Harper, U.S. Army National Guard, Afghanistan
Both of Tom Harper's grandfathers served in the military and one of them later made a career out of repairing military helicopters in Florida. After …
3 years, 6 months ago
Y1C Gloria Harnett Kerzner, U.S. Navy WAVES, World War II
Gloria Harnett Kerzner was just weeks shy of her 18th birthday when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Like most other Americans, she wanted to help…
3 years, 6 months ago
Bruce Henderson, 'Bridge to the Sun: Japanese Americans Who Fought in the Pacific in World War II'
Japanese-Americans were largely forbidden from serving in the Pacific theater in World War II over concerns about their loyalty in a war against thei…
3 years, 6 months ago
Capt. Elliot Ackerman, USMC, Afghanistan, Iraq, Battle of Fallujah
Elliot Ackerman knew at a young age that he wanted to be in the military. He wanted to serve his country and he wanted a job where it was imperative …
3 years, 7 months ago
Cpl. Cecil Phipps, U.S. Army, Korea, POW
When Cecil Phipps joined the U.S. Army, he signed up for overseas deployments so he could see the world. Before long, the U.S. would be at war in Kor…
3 years, 7 months ago