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"Patton's Panthers" was one of the most effective tank battalions in World War II, fighting a continuous 183 days at the front and inflicting heavy casualties on the Germans while crews racked up accolades from their peers, including three Medal …

Born and raised in New York, Roger Donlon enlisted the Air Force and served for nearly two years before earning admission into West Point. After a change of heart, Donlon left the program and re-enlisted into the Army — eventually qua…

After enlisting in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1966, Raymond Clausen was trained as a helicopter mechanic and had already completed a tour of duty before heading back to the jungles of Vietnam — against his mother's wishes. Continuing h…

The video is a grainy, far-off view of the battlefield of Takur Ghar, Afghanistan. It came from the ISR feed of a nearby Predator drone monitoring the 2002 operation designed to surround and destroy a large al-Qaeda force in the mountains of Eastern…

Born as a slave in February of 1840, William Carney's father managed to escape and make his way north via the Underground Railroad, ultimately earning the funds to purchase his wife and son's freedom. The family moved to Massachusetts, …

The Medal of Honor is well-known as the U.S. military's highest honor for acts of valor in the face of the enemy. It is bestowed for "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of life above and beyond the call of duty." It's …

In their 75 years building, fighting and serving on every continent – even Antarctica – only one Navy Seabee has been bestowed with the Medal of Hon…

For hundreds of years, humans have developed technologies that yield the maximum amount of enemy fatalities in efforts to protect the home front. As time progresses, so, too, do the methods military leaders use to strike fear into the hearts of thei…

There is a special and unofficial award for colonels who are most willing to take the fight to the enemy that is quietly passed between senior Marine Corps officers — the colonel rank insignia originally worn by Maj. Gen. Merritt A. "Red Mike" E…

Being deployed in combat has its fair share of ups and downs. Things can be very dull one minute, then quickly turn south the next. Although deployed service members work seven days a week, there are few things we get a kick out of that m…

All military personnel talk on deployment. It helps pass the time. You'll find yourself chatting with your peers for days, which turn into weeks, and then months, and before you know it, you're back in the arms of your loved ones. The t…

Service members spends countless hours stomping across the base, running in formation while yelling a repetitive song at the top of their lungs.Military cadences, or close-order drills, date back hundreds of years as a way to keep troops alig…

The "Charge of the Light Brigade" has become shorthand for a military disaster, especially one that is filled with heroics but is still a catastrophe. In the actual Charge of the Light Brigade, approximately 670 men rode into the teeth of Russian …