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USMC Medal of Honor Awardee
After a long stressful day, open your Corona or Pabst Blue ribbon and listen to a Marine really get to David Letterman. This one is for you!
All….worth watching if u have time. this Marine is funny and very, very humble….
Awarded for actions during the Vietnam War
The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Corporal Kenneth A. Korkow (MCSN: 2258125), United States Marine Corps, for extraordinary heroism while serving as Mortar Section Leader of Company B, First Battalion, Twenty-Sixth Marines, THIRD Marine Division (Reinforced), Fleet Marine Force, in the Republic of Vietnam on 30 March 1968. During a search and destroy operation in the vicinity of the Khe Sanh Combat Base, Company B suddenly came under intense small-arms and mortar fire from a well-entrenched North Vietnamese Army battalion.
Two medals for bravery in Afghanistan were awarded this week to a Marine at Camp Pendleton — a reminder of how intense the clash between U.S. forces and Taliban fighters has been in the insurgent stronghold of Helmand province.
Master Sgt. David Jarvis received a Silver Star for courage and leadership during a firefight in Sangin on Oct. 25, 2010, and a Bronze Star with a Combat V for valor for a series of similar actions from June to November of the same year.
This is a compilation of two films shot during the September, 1945 airshow at Freeman Field. The aircraft seen both in the air and on the ground are nothing short of spectacular. Many of the remaining captured aircraft have yet to arrive. Our thanks to the Freeman Army Airfield Museum who provided the video.
Debra Fortune took the news of the brain tumor like a Marine.
She'd earlier developed an odd, super-sense of smell. Her more alarming symptoms were a headache on the right side and gradual vision loss in her right eye. A rare type of tumor was stealing her eyesight as it wrapped around an optic nerve, doctors found. The tumor's pressure against the smell-registering olfactory nerve had given her a super nose.
A Veteran is someone who… at one time in their life, wrote a check made… “payable to The United States of America” for an amount… “up to and including MY LIFE.”
Article about Dan Lamothe written by Frank Real
What's it like to be an embedded war correspondent? Any questions, call me at 413-348-7885.
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Twenty five years ago very few people knew anything about PTSD. I will keep this article in relation to combat PTSD. In 2011 there are still many people who know very little about PTSD. This article will relate my experiences with PTSD. Hopefully after veterans read it, they will insure
24th Annual T4T Event
