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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 …
4 years, 11 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 l…
4 years, 11 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…
4 years, 11 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 d…
5 years 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…
5 years ago
Maj. General Mari K. Eder, U.S. Army, Deputy Chief U.S. Army Reserve
Maj. General Mari K. Eder shares her story of joining the U.S. Army in 1977 and embarking on a 36-year career, in which she rose to be Deputy Chief o…
5 years ago
Carl Felton, U.S. Navy, WWII, D-Day
Carl Felton joined the U.S.Navy after graduating from high school in 1943, even though he didn't know how to swim. Felton was then trained in communi…
5 years ago
Col. Douglas MacGregor, U.S. Army, Desert Storm
Douglas MacGregor was commissioned as a U.S. Army officer after graduating from West Point in 1976. He soon developed expertise in armored cavalry an…
5 years ago
James Wright, USMC, 'Enduring Vietnam'
James Wright joined the U.S. Marine Corps after graduating high school. His three years of service in the Marines fell during peacetime, but just a f…
5 years, 1 month ago
Steven Fenves, U.S. Army, Holocaust Survivor
Steven Fenves and his family enjoyed a nice middle class life in Hungary for his first ten years. In 1941, Hungarian authorities began discriminating…
5 years, 1 month ago