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News

The Soldier Who Took on Saddam’s Attacking Guard & Saved 100 Men

United States Army Sergeant 1st Class Paul R. Smith wasn’t alive to hear the news that he was to be awarded the highest honor the American military bestows: the Medal of […]

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4 years ago0
Community News

Pearl Harbor Navy Diver Passes Away at the Age of 103

After the Imperial Japanese Navy struck American military and prominent ships and installations at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in a surprise military attack on December 7, 1941 — a date Franklin Delano […]

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4 years ago0
Vet Pack

Army Vet Who Stopped Flag Burning Explains What a Real Hero Is

A United States Army veteran and FedEx driver who attained viral fame recently when he was filmed putting an abrupt end to an American flag burning attempt in Iowa City […]

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4 years ago0
Community News

Pararescueman Awarded Air Force Cross for Heroism a Decade Ago

On November 1, 2003, then United States Air Force Tech Sergeant Keary Miller, a pararescueman, was awarded the Silver Star after performing extraordinary acts of heroism during a 17-hour battle […]

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4 years ago0
News

Man Who Killed Vet’s Service Dog After Mistaking It for a Coyote Sentenced

A sad story for a United States Army veteran found legal closure Thursday, after the Dassel, Minnesota man who shot and killed his Siberian Husky service dog — then dragged […]

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4 years ago0
Community News

Detroit Military Veteran Found Safe After Being Reported Missing

A missing American military veteran, who had last been seen in a Detroit suburb, and who reportedly has a history of suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, was successfully located Thursday […]

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4 years ago0
Vet Pack

Watch This 101-Year-Old Marine Sing the National Anthem With Vigor

John Moon, 101 years young, is the oldest known surviving United States military veteran who fought at Iwo Jima, in World War II. Years before he became a Marine, in […]

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4 years ago0
News

Remembering the Only American to Give Back the Medal of Honor

America lost an exceptional, singular American hero on Friday at a veterans hospital in San Francisco. Charlie Liteky was 85. On December 6, 1967, Charlie (then “Angelo”) was a United […]

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4 years ago0
Community News

Reporter, Vets: Mystery of Marines Lost After Vietnam’s Final Battle Solved

Joseph Hargrove, Gary Hall and Danny Marshall have been gone for a long time. Over forty years now. Together, they were a machine gun United States Marine team, and fought […]

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4 years ago0
News

Veterans Buried in Wrong Graves at Rhode Island Cemetery

A veterans’ cemetery in Exeter, Rhode Island is apologizing after an embarrassing and disrespectful folly buried seven people under the wrong markers. According to an Associated Press report,  the graves […]

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4 years ago0
Community News

Iowa Marine Vet Trying to Make the Strongest Body Armor on the Planet

It may be Iowa, but Shoeless Joe Jackson isn’t appearing from the depths of a cornfield to fill this United States Marine veteran on the secrets to making the most […]

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4 years ago0
Vet Pack

VA Now Offering IVF Treatment to Qualified Vets

In January, qualified veterans could begin to receive in vitro fertilization reproductive assistance via a new medical benefit accessible through the Department of Veterans Affairs. It’s the last stage of […]

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4 years ago0
Vet Pack

Meet the Pittsburgh Steeler With a Bronze Star

United States military veterans take the field in National Football League stadiums often. Very often. Like every-Sunday-during-the-football-season-often. Through ceremonies and tributes — usually accompanied by a humungous Old Glory or […]

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4 years ago0
Community News

Iffy Viral Military Discount Story Causes Stir in Alabama Town

Some take it as gospel. Others say it’s fabricated — made up to swindle some online sympathy. Either way, the post on Facebook that accused an Alabama Pizza Hut of denying […]

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4 years ago0
Vet Pack

This Navy Veteran’s 20th Anniversary Gift to His Wife … Is Life

It dwarfs diamonds. It outclasses rubies, and it upstages gold. It even bests a yacht, or a summer home, or a fancy luxury car. “He is literally going to give […]

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4 years ago0
Community News

See Deployed Soldier Hide in a Wrapped Gift, Surprise Young Son

“PAPA! PAPA!” “I missed you so much! I didn’t know YOU were the surprise!” A United States Army soldier back from a deployment, and stationed at Fort Bragg, gave his […]

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4 years ago0
Community News

Female U.S. Marine Born in a Siberian Prison Could Make History

Maria Daume was born in a Russian prison. After giving birth, her mother raised she and her brother Nikolai behind bars, for two years. When she died when Maria turned two, they […]

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4 years ago0
Vet Pack

Remembering the Last Man on the Moon — a Navy Pilot

Walk up to any American on the street and ask them who the first man on the moon was, and chances are they’ll come up with the correct response: Neil […]

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4 years ago0
Community News

Government Will Pay Billions to Marines Exposed to Toxic Water

In what the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) is calling a “historic” benefit, veterans who were affected by toxic drinking water at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina over the course […]

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4 years ago0
Dogs

Marine Vet Finds Long Lost ‘Battle Buddy’ Working at Rikers Island

“He was my battle buddy. He was my best friend out there.” *** United States Marine veteran Mitch Romero never forgot the guy he leaned on the most while fighting […]

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4 years ago0
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