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Clint Romesha, U.S. Army, Afghanistan, Iraq, Medal of Honor
As we watch the troubling news out of Afghanistan, we continue to honor the courage that American service members demonstrated there for twenty years. One of those unforgettable veterans is Clint Ro…
Published on 4 years, 4 months ago
August Bolino, U.S. Army Air Corps, WWII, D-Day
When August Bolino's draft number came up, he immediately signed up with the U.S. Army Air Corps. His good grasp of numbers got him assigned as a navigator on a B-17 bomber crew in the 8th Air Force …
Published on 4 years, 4 months ago
Ed Manley, U.S. Army, D-Day, Battle of the Bulge
Ed Manley joined the U.S. Army and was trained as a paratrooper and a demolition man. He is now immortalized in history in the famous photo of Gen. Dwight Eisenhower addressing the airborne troops on…
Published on 4 years, 5 months ago
Tom Toski, U.S. Navy, Okinawa, Leyte Gulf
Tom Toski was drafted into the U.S. Navy in 1943 and was deployed on a destroyer escort to the Pacific theater upon completion of his training. By the end of the war, just two years later, Toski had …
Published on 4 years, 5 months ago
Scott Taylor, U.S. Navy SEAL, Iraq
Scott Taylor signed up for the U.S. Navy while he was still on high school and he knew from the start he wanted to be a SEAL. It was training that would serve him well when he was deployed to Iraq ju…
Published on 4 years, 5 months ago
Scott McEwen, 'Hell Week And Beyond: The Making of a Navy SEAL'
Those who serve in our military go through rigorous training and elite forces must reach even more difficult standards. Perhaps the most famous and most demanding training belongs to the U.S. Navy S…
Published on 4 years, 5 months ago
John McCarney, U.S. Air Force
John McCarney joined the U.S. Air Force shortly after deciding he'd had enough of college football. He trained to be a medical corpsman and was by late 1974 was on his way to Clark Air Force Base in…
Published on 4 years, 5 months ago
LTG Patricia Horoho, U.S. Army, Surgeon General of the U.S. Army
In 2011, U.S. Army Lt. General Patricia Horoho became the first nurse and the first woman to serve as Surgeon General of the U.S. Army. Prior to the that honor, she provided excellent emergency care…
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago
Frank DeVita, USCG, WWII, Omaha Beach
Frank DeVita joined the U.S. Coast Guard in World War II thinking his job would be to protect the American coast. But his war service would be much different than expected when the Navy decided to us…
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago
George Dramis, U.S. Army, Patton's 'Ghost Army'
George Dramis joined the U.S. Army during World War II and was sent to Europe with many other soldiers to defeat Nazi Germany. But his unit was very different from all the others. Dramis was a memb…
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago