However, in 2016, the Pentagon conducted a review of all medals awarded for valor since the 9/11 terror attacks. Shurer’s award was then upgraded to the Medal of Honor. He received the award from President Donald Trump on October 1, 2018, in a ceremony at the White House. “For ...
It is not surprising that the Special Tactics community is the most highly decorated Air Force group since the Vietnam War. The 17th has specifically contributed to that honor, with its members having received 80 combat-related medals. Among these heroes is TACP Tech Sergeant Cam Kelsch. Last ...
In Vietnam, as Ridgway saw it, a grade creep had infiltrated the Army’s system to award medals for valor and meritorious service while in combat. Ridgway probably would have had little quarrel with the Army’s Vietnam Medal of Honor awards, 174 presented to date, for conspicuous gallantry...
Were you born in the year that the army made it mandatory for taller recruits or were you born during the Vietnam War? Find out here what happened in U.S. Army history the year you were born.
In addition, “the Vietnamese Field Kitchen team received a huge welcome from visitors for their dishes presented during the opening day of the International Army Forum, on August 23. The Field Kitchen is among 11 categories of the competition that teams of the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA)...
Not one Medal of Honor was awarded to a Black soldier for service during World War II until a U.S. Army-commissioned 1993 study looked into racial discrimination in awarding medals. Results from the study showed a number of Distinguished Service Cross recipients ought to be rightfully upgraded ...
It is not surprising that the Special Tactics community is the most highly decorated Air Force group since the Vietnam War. The 17th has specifically contributed to that honor, with its members having received 80 combat-related medals. Among these heroes is TACP Tech Sergeant Cam Kelsch. Last ...