Real Soldiers
Welcome Home, John Robert Gallagher
Former Canadian soldier, John Robert Gallagher, was killed in Syria earlier this month while fighting with the Kurds against ISIS. The UK’s Daily Mail reports that his hometown, New London, Ontario, turned out in large numbers to welcome Gallagher on his last trip home; Hundreds including firefighters, the local police force and supporters came out […]
Captain Andrew Gremillion, LA National Guard, saving the world
Chief Tango sends us a link to the story of Louisiana National Guardsman Captain Andrew Gremillion who, upon hearing a loud splash, left his family and sprinted to the scene where a woman’s car fell into a nearby canal. Captain Gremillion, formerly enlisted and an Afghanistan veteran rescued the woman from her watery grave. He […]
ABCMR Supports Conner MoH Upgrade
Last March, Jonn wrote about a Federal court denying the request to upgrade the Distinguished Service Cross awarded during World War II to 1LT Garlin Murl Conner to the Medal of Honor. The denial was due to strictly legal grounds, based on the expiration of all statutes of limitations for appealing a previous action. Since […]
Major Charles “Chuck” Kettles closer to MOH award
The Ann Arbor News reports that Charles Kettles is a step closer to having his Distinguished Service Cross upgraded to a Medal of Honor for his actions on May 15, 1967 when he rescued eight soldiers who had been stranded on a Landing Zone after the Major’s aircraft had cleared the “hot LZ”. You should […]
Vietnam Vet to Receive BSM Today
On January 28, 1968, a US helicopter crashed in Vietnam. It was shot down. There was at least one survivor. That survivor needed assistance. Vernon Rose was in the Army at the time. He was serving in Vietnam, in the vicinity of the crash. Rose assisted in recovery efforts. He moved through thick brush, under […]
Matias Ferreira; saving the world
AW1Ed sends us a link from Fox News about Matias Ferreira, a Marine who lost his legs in Afghanistan in 2011. On a busy street in Queens, he heard a woman screaming after she hit a median pole. Her car was smoking and she couldn’t get out of the vehicle; Thinking of his own 11-month-old […]
James Vernon saving the world
Someone sent us a story on Facebook about 75-year-old veteran and retired chess teacher, James Vernon who protected sixteen students from a knife-wielding 19-year-old Dustin Brown at the local public library in Morton, Illinois. Vernon, 75, won his “90 seconds of combat” with Brown, “but I felt like I lost the war,” he chuckled. He […]
Kenneth Altazan gets a Navy Cross
Marine_7002 sends us a link about Kenneth Altazan who was a Marine sergeant on May 9, 1969 in Quang Nam Province, Vietnam. He was a crewchief on a CH-47 helicopter and their mission that day was to evacuate wounded Marines while under fire from enemy forces. At the second pickup, crew chief Altazan, standing on […]
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