Korea
Three vets pass on
Joe Harris, believed to have been the oldest surviving WWII Paratrooper, died March 14 at the young age of 108. 72 jumps before he got out – hardly a 5 jump chump. SGT Harris was a member of A Company of the 555th Parachute Infantry, aka the “Triple Nickels” or sometimes the “Buffalo Nickels.” They […]
Valor Friday
Today’s Valor Friday piece is going to be cribbed from Navy Times. During the Korean War, Lt. j.g. John Koelsch, equipped with a promising new helicopter, dedicated his service to rescuing downed pilots. Koelsch’s most notable sortie ultimately cost him his life, but through his actions, the pilot he risked his life to save survived. […]
Biden awards seven Medals of Honor
When he’s not letting rapists and murderers off death row, Biden’s using his lame duck time to do something useful for once. Yesterday he upgraded seven awards (six DSCs and one Silver Star by my count) to the Medal of Honor. Five are from the Korean War and two from Vietnam. Only one of […]
Valor Friday
Pictured above is Master Sergeant Ernest J Kouma. As you can see from the silk blue ribbon and five-point star hanging around his neck, he received the Medal of Honor. If you know your US Army uniform history you can date the photo to a short period of time around the Korean War, which is […]
Private that defected to North Korea gets time served, and the Navy solves their retention issues
You’ll remember Travis King, soon to be formerly a private in the US Army, was the boneheaded turd that was supposed to be escorted to the airport to fly back to the states from South Korea. As I recall he was being chaptered out. Somehow he slipped his guard, snuck into a tour group visiting […]
Valor Friday
Kurt Chew-Een Lee was the child of Chinese immigrants. Growing up in Sacramento, when America entered World War II, Lee was only 15. As a participant in JROTC during those high school years, it should be no surprise that he enlisted as soon as he turned 18. The eldest son of six children (three boys, […]
Valor Friday
Don’t let the bookish looks of this bespectacled man deceive you. This guy was a straight up badass. Benjamin Wilson enlisted in the Army before WWII. He was at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Schofield Barracks wasn’t a prime target of either of the two waves of Japanese aircraft. It was […]
Valor Friday
Ronald Rosser was born in 1929, the eldest of 17 children, in Columbus, Ohio. From 1929, Rosser’s parents had one kid just about every year for 18 years. Coming of age during World War II, Ronald was too young to see active service in that conflict, but he did enlist at the age of 17 […]
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