Tag: Korean War

Marines salute during an annual ceremony honoring Marine Corps hero Lt. Gen. Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller, the most decorated Marine in history.

The Army lost one of its Korean War heroes. Ronald E. Rosser, Medal of Honor recipient, passed away on Wednesday, August 26, 2020, in Bumpus Mills, TN, at the age of 90. Rosser was born in Columbus, Ohio, on October 24, 1929. He was the oldest of 17 children. He joined the Army at age […]

‘A Warrior’s Warrior’ in MACV-SOG During America’s long war in Vietnam, many of the Green Berets who fought there became legends within the Special Forces Regiment. And among those warriors were the men of MACVSOG (Military Assistance Command Vietnam, Studies and Observations Group); the SOG warriors were among the finest the country has ever produced. […]

Tech. Sgt. Pete Rivera, a recruiter for the United States Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron “Thunderbirds,” looks at his reflection at the Korean War Memorial in Washington, D.C., May 8, 2019. Rivera has been on the team since 2018.

The United States Army was the only combatant to enter World War II who armed their standard infantrymen with a semi-automatic rifle. The rifle was an iconic image of the American GI of our Greatest Generation during the war. And the Garand served from the steaming jungles of the Pacific to the sands of North […]

Following much speculation, Sikorsky and Boeing have finally revealed their new prototype helicopter, which is vying to become the U.S. Army’s next utility helicopter. There are two contestants left in the Army’s Future Vertical Lift (FVL) program, which will produce the next generation utility helicopter. Competing with the SB-1 Defiant is the Bell V-280 Valor. […]

Following much speculation, Sikorsky and Boeing have finally revealed their new prototype helicopter, which is vying to become the U.S. Army’s next utility helicopter. There are two contestants left in the Army’s Future Vertical Lift (FVL) programme, which will produce the next generation utility helicopter. Competing with the SB-1 Defiant is the Bell V-280 Valor. The Army […]

Larry McDaniel, of Jacksonville, Fla., left, and his brother, Charles McDaniel, of Indianapolis, sons of Master Sgt. Charles Hobert McDaniel who died in the Korean War in 1950, are presented their father’s dog tag by an official of the Army’s Past Conflicts Casualty Office, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2018, in Arlington, Va. The dog tag was […]

Vice President Mike Pence, left, Commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Adm. Phil Davidson, center, and Rear Adm. Jon Kreitz, deputy director of the POW/MIA Accounting Agency, attend at a ceremony marking the arrival of the remains believed to be of American service members who fell in the Korean War at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, […]

Caskets draped in American flags arrived onto U.S. soil on Wednesday, the remains of those who fell during the Korean War and have been lost ever since — until now. North Korea and the United States have worked together to transport the fallen service members home for the first time since they departed for the […]

The remains of 55 members of the U.S. Armed Forces killed during the Korean War over sixty years ago have been turned over to the U.S. Air Force by the North Korea regime. A U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster arrived in Wonson, North Korea early Friday morning. Each case containing the reported American remains was […]

June 27, 1950 — Only two days before, thousands of North Korean soldiers had crossed into the South Korea, under the cover of artillery barrages over the 38th parallel. They were already on their way to Seoul by the 27th, and the world was watching closely. On this day in history, U.S. President Harry Truman […]