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LtCol Doug Bahrns, USMC, Iraq, Afghanistan, Battle of Fallujah
Doug Bahrns knew he wanted to be a U.S. Marine Corps officer when he finished high school a couple of years before 9/11. He graduated from the Virgin…
1 year, 1 month ago
SGT Scotty Hasting, U.S. Army, Afghanistan, Purple Heart
Scotty Hasting is now a popular country music singer but his story of service will explain a lot about the performer you see today.
Hasting grew up in…
1 year, 1 month ago
PO2 Bob Ingram, U.S. Navy Corpsman, Vietnam, Medal of Honor
Bob Ingram joined the Navy after graduating high school in 1963 to give himself some direction. He was initially assigned to work in electronics, but…
1 year, 2 months ago
CPL Harold Terens, U.S. Army Air Corps, World War II
Harold Terens was just 18 years old and playing basketball with his friends when he heard the news of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Like many …
1 year, 2 months ago
Captain Charles Plumb, U.S. Navy, Vietnam, POW
Charlie Plumb ended up in the U.S. Navy because money was tight for his family and it was a big economic relief when he was recommended and accepted …
1 year, 2 months ago
Kathleen Faircloth, Gold Star Mother of USMC LCpl. Bradley Faircloth
Kathleen Faircloth received the news that no parent wants to get. In late November 2004, she learned that her son, U.S. Marine Corps Lance Corporal B…
1 year, 2 months ago
1LT Doug Greenlaw, U.S. Army, Vietnam, Silver Star
Doug Greenlaw sees his life as a series of "lightning strikes." He was literally struck by lightning when he was 13 years old, thankfully making an i…
1 year, 3 months ago
S/Sgt Melvin Hurwitz, U.S. Army Air Corps, World War II
Melvin Hurwirz was 16 years old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Within just a few years, all four boys in his family wer…
1 year, 3 months ago
Col. Anthony Wood, USMC, Vietnam, Evacuation of Saigon
Anthony "Tony" Wood grew up in a Marine Corps family and enlisted to begin his own service in 1964. Before long he was commissioned as a USMC officer…
1 year, 3 months ago
Capt. Sarah Spradlin, USMC, Special Operations Command
Sarah Spradlin knew she wanted to serve her nation in uniform, and to her the only option was the U.S. Marine Corps. She was commissioned as an offic…
1 year, 3 months ago