medal of honor

Catch up on all the military and defense news and SOFREP reports from the last week, November 9th to the 15th.

The bill to posthumously award SFC Alwyn Cashe the Medal of Honor has passed the House and the Senate, and now awaits a signature from POTUS.

Lawrence Joel was a United States Army paratrooper who served in the Korean and Vietnam wars. Joel received the Silver Star and the Medal of Honor for his heroism on November 8, 1965, in a battle outside Bien Hoa against the Viet Cong. At the time, he was serving in South Vietnam as a medic […]

The last time he was seen by his fellow American countrymen, Versace was loudly singing “God Bless America.”

He stated that the medal belonged not to him but “to the boys who are not here, the boys who are resting under the white crosses in France.

Ron Rosser served for three years in the Army in Japan and Germany. Then reenlisted in June of 1951 with a single purpose in mind: revenge.

On Friday, SGM Thomas Payne became the first living member of the Army’s elite and secretive Delta Force to be awarded the Medal of Honor.

In 2002, Congress passed the Defense Authorization Act. The ensuing review uncovered the meritorious service of several soldiers, among them, Jose Rodela.

Defense Secretary Mark Esper told members of Congress this week in a letter that SFC Alwyn Cashe’s actions “merit the award of the Medal of Honor.”

Capers has been awarded some of the nation’s highest honors for his meritorious 22-year long service, including a nomination for the Medal of Honor.

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 […]

Guinness World Records stopped tracking the world’s most decorated soldiers because the importance and distinction of certain medals outweigh the number of medals a service member can be awarded — a point veterans certainly understand. What brought this issue to Guinness’s attention was the medal count between Audie Murphy — long regarded as the most […]