Real Soldiers
CSM Martin Barreras comes home
We talked about the late CSM Martin Barreras last week when he gave the last full measure of devotion. DVIDS posts the video of his last procession through the streets of Tucson Wiki says this about his career; Barreras joined the Army in 1988 after serving in the Marine Corps for five years, according to […]
Corporal William “Kyle” Carpenter, USMC to receive Medal of Honor
From the White House; On June 19, 2014, President Barack Obama will award Corporal William “Kyle” Carpenter, U.S. Marine Corps (Ret), the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry. Corporal Carpenter will receive the Medal of Honor for his courageous actions while serving as an Automatic Rifleman with Company F, 2d Battalion, 9th Marines, Regimental Combat […]
SGT Kyle J. White awarded Medal of Honor today
So, This Ain’t Hell, against all odds, was admitted into the White House today for the Medal of Honor ceremony honoring Kyle J. White’s heroism and devotion to his duty on November 9, 2007. The best interview that I’ve read with SGT White is at Stars & Stripes so you should read that and not […]
Streaming Video, MOH Ceremony, 1500 EDT 13 May 2014
This should be the streaming video for the MOH Ceremony for SGT Kyle J. White, US Army. Hopefully I haven’t dorked up the embed code. And that the White House web site wasn’t done by the same folks who did HealthCare.gov. (smile) Ceremony’s at 1500 EDT, so you’ll probably see Opie Jay Carney shoveling more […]
MARSOC MSgt to Receive Silver Star Today
MSgt Donovan E. Petty, assigned to 2nd Marine Special Operations Battalion, Camp Lejeune, NC, will receive the Silver Star today. The decoration will be presented by the Maj Gen Mark A Clark, Commander, MARSOC, at a ceremony at Stone Bay. MSgt Petty is receiving the award for heroism in Afghanistan on 1 November 2012. The […]
Four Drum Soldiers Honored
Four soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division, Fort Drum, NY, have been awarded the Air Medal with Valor Device. They were honored for gallantry on 28 May 2013 in Afghanistan. On that date, the four landed during an attack to MEDEVAC a critically wounded US soldier, then took him to the US hospital at Bagram […]
Master Sgt. Dan “Bud” Wassom II’s last act
Fringe sends us a link to the story of Master Sgt. Dan “Bud” Wassom II of the Arkansas Air National Guard’s 189th Airlift Wing; Master Sgt. Dan “Bud” Wassom II’s last action in this life was using his body to shield his 5-year-old daughter Lorelai as a tornado demolished his house on Sunday, said his […]
Just Call Him “Cool Hand Jon”
That would be SSG(P) Jon King, at Fort Sill, OK. He’s a vet of both Iraq and Afghanistan. He’s now assigned to C Company, 434th Field Artillery Detachment. Why call him that, you ask? Let’s just say the story involves a live grenade, a grenade range, a raw trainee, a potentially deadly error – and […]
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